{{Infobox album | name = Ya Nass | type = Studio | artist = Yasmine Hamdan | cover =Ya Nass.jpg | alt = | released = 2013 | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = Electronic, pop | length = 45:56 | label = Kwaidan / Crammed Discs | producer = Marc Collin | prev_title = Arabology | prev_year = 2009 | next_title = Al Jamilat | next_year = 2017 }}
'''''Ya Nass''''' is the debut solo album by the Lebanese singer Yasmine Hamdan, previously a member of the band Soap Kills and one half of the duo Y.A.S. The album was originally given a limited release, in France and Lebanon, on the French Kwaidan label in 2012, under the title '''''Yasmine Hamdan'''''. It was released internationally by Crammed Discs in April 2013, under the title ''Ya Nass'', featuring five new songs. It was produced by Marc Collin, best known for his new wave covers project Nouvelle Vague.
==Overview== The album's title translates from Arabic as "Hey People".<ref name="npr"/> Hamdan has described the album as being influenced by the Arab Spring uprisings of 2010, "Ya Nass is a like an invitation, a call to a single person or a crowd ... It could be an echo of the movements that are taking place in the Arab world."<ref name="national">{{cite news|last1=Saad|first1=Shirine|title=Childhood wanderings influence Yasmine Hamdan's third album|url=http://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/music/childhood-wanderings-influence-yasmine-hamdans-third-album#full|archive-url=https://archive.today/20161227033422/http://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/music/childhood-wanderings-influence-yasmine-hamdans-third-album%23full|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 27, 2016|access-date=25 March 2016|work=The National|date=3 August 2013}}</ref> She added, "At first when the revolutions started I felt very stimulated and free, I felt that the youth had at last begun to have a voice. But I also know that these things take time and that the situation in the region is complicated."<ref name="national"/>
The album features a mixture of original compositions and reworkings of older songs from the 1930s and 1940s, including songs by the Egyptian composer Mohammed Abdel Wahab and the singer Leila Mourad.<ref name="metro">{{cite news|last1=Haider|first1=Arwa|title=Yasmine Hamdan: My musical epiphany was in a club at 4am when the DJ played an Arabic song|url=http://metro.co.uk/2013/05/28/yasmine-hamdan-my-musical-epiphany-was-in-a-club-at-4am-when-the-dj-played-an-arabic-song-3807773/|access-date=25 March 2016|work=Metro|date=28 May 2013}}</ref> It also includes the song "Hal", which Hamdan performs in the vampire film ''Only Lovers Left Alive'' (2013), directed by Jim Jarmusch.<ref name="national"/> Hamdan wrote the song for the film; the lyrics concern a woman who complains about "a vampirising love affair".<ref name="national"/>
==Critical reception== {{Album ratings |rev1 = ''The Guardian'' |rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="guardian">{{cite news|last1=Denselow|first1=Robin|title=Yasmine Hamdan: Ya Nass – review|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/may/23/yasmine-hamdan-ya-nass-review|access-date=25 March 2016|work=The Guardian|date=23 May 2013}}</ref> |rev2=''Les Inrockuptibles'' |rev2score={{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref name="inrocks">{{cite news|last1=Larrède|first1=Christian|title=Yasmine Hamdan, folk-pop ondoyante|url=http://www.lesinrocks.com/musique/critique-album/yasmine-hamdan-folk-pop-ondoyante/|access-date=25 March 2016|work=Les Inrockuptibles|date=1 July 2013|language=fr|archive-date=14 November 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131114033556/http://www.lesinrocks.com/musique/critique-album/yasmine-hamdan-folk-pop-ondoyante/|url-status=dead}}</ref> |rev3= NPR |rev3score = (favourable)<ref name="npr">{{cite news|last1=Eyre|first1=Banning|title=Album Review: 'Ya Nass'|url=https://www.npr.org/2014/04/28/307766277/album-review-ya-nass|access-date=25 March 2016|publisher=NPR|date=28 April 2014}}</ref> |rev4 = ''The Observer'' |rev4score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="observer">{{cite news|last1=Spencer|first1=Neil|title=Yasmine Hamdan: Ya Nass – review|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/may/19/yasmine-hamdan-ya-nass-review|access-date=25 March 2016|work=The Observer|date=19 May 2013}}</ref> |rev5 = ''PopMatters'' |rev5score = {{Rating|6|10}}<ref name="popmatters">{{cite news|last1=Sole|first1=Deanne|title=Yasmine Hamdan: ''Ya Nass''|url=http://www.popmatters.com/review/182493-yasmine-hamdan-ya-nass/|access-date=25 March 2016|work=PopMatters|date=2 June 2014}}</ref> |rev6 = ''Télérama'' |rev6score = (favourable)<ref name="telerama">{{cite news|last1=Berthod|first1=Anne|title=Yasmine Hamdan: ''Ya Nass''|url=http://www.telerama.fr/musiques/ya-nass,98675.php|access-date=25 March 2016|work=Télérama|date=10 June 2013|language=fr}}</ref> }}
The album received generally positive reviews. ''The Guardian'' wrote, "She has a sultry, seductive voice and gift for melody that is reminiscent of Souad Massi, and her best songs rely on acoustic guitar rather than the swirling synths."<ref name="guardian"/> NPR's reviewer described Hamdan as "one of the most free-thinking and inventive artists singing in Arabic today," and said of the album that it "is full of ... subtle references to the past, but you don't need to understand them to appreciate the songs."<ref name="npr"/>
==Track listing== ===''Yasmine Hamdan''=== Original track listing on the Kwaidan release:
#In Kan Fouadi #Beirut #Samar #Baaden #Ya Nass #Irss #Nediya #Nag #Shouei #La Mouch #Bala Tantanat #Zarani [Pre-Order Only] #Khalas [Pre-Order Only]
===''Ya Nass''=== Track listing on the Crammed Discs release:
#Deny #Shouei #Samar #Enta Fen, Again #La Mouch #Nediya #Beirut #Aleb #Bala Tantanat #In Kan Fouadi #Hal #Khayyam #Ya Nass #Khalas (iTunes only) #Zarani (iTunes only)
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