In 2014 , El Khatib spent 30 days recording his third full-length Moonlight with drummer Ron Marinelli and engineer Sonni DiPerri at Los Angeles studio The Lair . With the exception of drums , El Khatib played most of the instruments on Moonlight himself and also sampled and edited Marinelli ’s drums . Moonlight also includes a field recording of a funeral procession , recorded by El Khatib during a skateboarding trip through a Mexican village . A remix of the title track featuring Wu-Tang Clan member GZA was released on Nov. 18 , 2014 . Moonlight was released on Innovative Leisure on Jan. 20 , 2015 . Clash Music described it as “ a curious oddity ” that “ indicates that there ’s far more to Hanni El Khatib than meets the eye . ” In the fall of 2015 , a Paris performance by El Khatib was cancelled after the Bataclan attack . He used the unexpected space in his schedule forstudio sessions at the Jazzcats recording studio in Long Beach , described by Buzzbands LA as a “ second home ” where he and producer Jonny Bell worked writing and recording new material
Bataclan attack
November 2015 Paris attacks
Hanni El Khatib