Clarissa Bitar - Bakhaf al Layl (Deluxe Edition)

Clarissa Bitar is an award-winning queer and trans Palestinian oud musician, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and cultural worker. His work is anchored in his ancestral Arab heritage, while treating the oud as a living, iterative tradition. Clarissa’s sonic tapestry opens portals that nurture a sense of dignity and defiance to colonial erasure, be it in classrooms, on the streets in protests, or in intergenerational third spaces.

Clarissa's work has been featured on Netflix’s MO, as well as in radio, film, and international exhibits in the US, UK, Australia, Cuba, and the Middle East. To hear Clarissa talk about this project, you can listen on NPR's All Things Considered.

This deluxe, vinyl edition of Clarissa Bitar's 2025 release, Bakhaf al Layl includes three new bonus tracks, Kul al Hub, Stealing the Sun and Shlomo.