The opening Arabic lyrics of “Leila” map a smuggled trip through a fence to Haifa. 47SOUL describes a city beautiful in its architecture but broken by the absence of its exiled people. This imagined border crossing anchors the lead single from Dualism Pt. 2, arriving on 26 June via Cooking Vinyl. While 2025’s Dualism Pt. 1 held the weight of immediate grief, this second instalment pivots back to the group’s dancefloor instincts. The music runs on their self-coined shamstep engine, driving the rhythmic swing of Levantine dabke through heavy analogue synthesis and club-weight drum programming.
The second Arabic verse names Majd al-Krum directly, a Palestinian town in the Galilee that survived the massacres of 1948. By shouting out a specific site of resistance and survival, the band turns the song into a literal map for the displaced. The track ignores the Green Line and military checkpoints, using the momentum of the music to physically claim the route to the north. For 47SOUL, the dancefloor is where the wall is already torn down.
Catch them live this summer at WOMAD Glasgow in Kelvingrove Park on Friday, 3 July.
Listen to “Leila” HERE and pre-save your copy of Dualism Pt. 2 following THIS LINK