The voice of Jordan, artist Omar Abdul Latif, in collaboration with the Jordan Kuwait Bank, has released his new musical album that celebrates all the governorates of Jordan, titled "Our People and Ours." This national artistic project combines music, identity, and place.
The album includes 12 songs, each dedicated to one of the kingdom's governorates, in an artistic endeavor that highlights the diversity of Jordanian identity and the richness of its cultural and social components. It provides each governorate with a special artistic space that expresses its uniqueness, history, heritage, and its people, invoking its cultural, social, and human details.
This release comes on the occasion of the silver jubilee of the Jordan Kuwait Bank, marking fifty years since its founding, making the collaboration between the bank and Abdul Latif a model of partnership between the private sector and art in supporting projects with a national message, celebrating Jordan and its cultural and social components.
The realization of the album is the result of artistic collaboration between Abdul Latif and several poets, including Ahmed Al-Faouri, Majid Zreikat, Faleh Al-Jbour, and Abdul Rahman Hajila, who contributed to writing some of the songs on the album, alongside Abdul Latif's own songwriting. The voice of Jordan composed all the songs in the album, and musician Mohammad Al-Qaisi was responsible for distributing the songs. The recording and production stages of the album were conducted between Amman and Cairo to achieve a level of artistry and production that befits the project's idea and scale, with the works recorded at Amman Music Sound studios in the Jordanian capital, as well as Al-Risala and Misk studios in Cairo.
The voice of Jordan expressed its happiness with the completion of the album "Our People and Ours," emphasizing that the project holds a special place for him, as it addresses all of Jordan's governorates, giving each province its own song to root the Jordanian identity and highlight the customs, traditions, vocabulary, and cultural heritage elements of the Jordanian governorates, showcasing the special significance of each governorate and its unique beauty. The works are presented in the Jordanian musical style that has characterized Abdul Latif's musical journey since its inception. The album does not only present a collection of separate songs but forms, as a whole, a musical map of Jordan, transitioning between the twelve governorates, offering a special song for each.
Abdul Latif expressed his happiness with the strategic partnership with the Jordan Kuwait Bank, affirming that the bank's support for this project represents an important model of partnership between national institutions and the artistic sector, contributing to the production of works that carry a national message and document aspects of Jordanian identity.
The album "Our People and Ours" has been released on the official channel of the voice of Jordan, artist Omar Abdul Latif, on YouTube, in addition to being available on all music stores, digital platforms, social media, and Jordanian radio stations.