But so far, al qadiris concepts have tended to promise more than the music has delivered. Midway through our recent skype chat, fatima al qadiri tells me that she doesnt want to get too deep into the themes behind her new fivetrack ep, shaneera. A daily series of lunchtime discussions will focus this years attention on borderlands, inviting artists such as hannah black, fatima al qadiri, alexandra bachzetsis, josh kline, jill magid and lauren cornell among others to discuss the geographic, social and psychological borders that we construct and fight to break down. That year he released his first album allahu pukaaray jaa in collaboration with the company faizaneashraf. Al qadiri is a contributing editor at dis magazine and contributor to bidoun. Kurt goldstein and the trauma of intelligent machines just out bit. Producer fatima al qadiri adapts the evil extreme femme alter ego of shaneera for her new ep on the hyperdub label, which is packed with melody, drama, and joy. In 2000, he began his professional naat khuwani career. Fatima al qadiri albums, songs, and news pitchfork. Fatima al qadiri is a new yorkbased kuwaiti composer and visual artist. The former connected materialistic aspects of middle eastern and western cultures while dipping into several. The title of fatima al qadiris latest release, shaneera, comes from the english mispronunciation of the arabic word, shaneea literally meaning outrageous, nefarious, hideous, major and foul. Maybe its the wide stereophonic images, the deep choruses, or the atmospheres. Referencing south african gqom in a similar way to zomby of his gasp.
Al haaj hafiz muhammad tahir qadri was born in karachi and among the young and popular naat khawans. Five new club cuts from hyperdubs fatima al qadiri. Facebook is showing information to help you better understand the purpose of a page. Full festival schedule revealed, including special ralph steadman exhibit. Titled shaneera, the producers new effort arrives through hyperdub on october. Fatima al qadiri shaneera ep producer fatima al qadiri adapts the evil extreme femme alter ego of shaneera for her new ep on the hyperdub label, which is. Senegalborn, kuwaitraised, new yorkbased producer fatima al qadiri works in the opposite direction of most artists discographies by making her third substantial release, following the genrespecific xperience uno and desert strike fade to mind eps, her least personal one yet.
Stream fatima al qadiri desert strike ep fade005, a playlist by fadetomind from desktop or your mobile device. The web was first conceived 25 years ago, by an englishman. Fatima al qadiri ghost raid by fadetomind fadeto mind. Ibm watson creative director added to moogfest keynote. Producer fatima al qadiri processes police brutality mtv. In one iteration, as gay slang used in some arab countries, a desirable. While this kind of stuff can sometimes get lost in its own ideas or worse, come across as vacuous neo idm lussis work stands out because of its. Desert strike by fatima al qadiri, released 23 october 2012 1. Fatima al qadiri is an internet citizen and a global radical. For those who have been following fatima al qadiri, brute isnt unfamiliar territory. Conceived of as a celebration of the right of protest, fatima al qadiri s brute is a piece of music ideally suited to a time of shadowy corporate manipulation and apocalyptic political theater.
Having just released a beatless album under his own name, he speaks with rory gibb about introspection, method acting, the importance of intention, and what continues to excite him about club music. We would like to show you a description here but the site wont allow us. It was fatimas first original score and if you have netflix youll soon be able to watch the film and hear it since netflix announced yesterday they were acquiring the international rights for the movie. Its also alien for me, because i dont speak german, so its taking this idea of an imagined china created by the west who are aliens who are treating china like theyre aliens.
From his childhood, he had the passion of naat reciting. The album, and within it contains our past, our future and all our hopes and dreams about technology. After delivering her brute lp last year, fatima al qadiri has lifted the curtain on a new ep. Objekt interviewed rory gibb, november 21st, 20 04. Includes unlimited streaming of asiatisch via the free bandcamp app, plus highquality download in mp3, flac and more.
The album uses almost exclusively preset synthesizer banks, cheap casio instrumentation and samplings of sounds from skype and windows 95. Stream tracks and playlists from fatima al qadiri on your desktop or mobile device. Chris watson sound app to be released in september by. Curating books, movies, music, and the latest in science and technology. Chris watson is talking to me over skype from his home in newcastleupontyne, explaining the details of a soon to be released smartphone app, which contains a cherrypicked collection of his sound recordings made as far back as the 1990s. Fatima al qadiri born in senegal, raised in kuwait, and based in new york, fatima al qadiri is one of the most creative and conceptual electronic music producers to surface during the 2010s.
Ikonika, fatima al qadiri, kode9 and more contribute to hyperswim, premiering on november 22nd. Kuwaiti musician fatima al qadiri was behind the musical score of the senegalese film atlantique which just won the grand prix award at the cannes film festival a couple of days ago. Fatima al qadiri i ts 1992, and a 10yearold fatima al qadiri is hooked on a sega megadrive game titled desert strike. Oct 24, 2019 media monarchy co james evan pilato p. For nearly 20 years anthony child, aka surgeon, has sent dancers into collective states of hypnosis with his overwhelming, elliptical techno. She has performed and exhibited at the tate modern part of k48 kontinuum, moma ps1, gwangju design biennale, art dubai and the third line. Fatima al qadiri uses the sounds of videogames to evoke. Hafiz muhammad tahir qadri new naats, latest online. Shaneera is an extended play by kuwait musician fatima al qadiri, released on october 2017 via the label hyperdub. One might say that al qadiri is at her best in the mode of the soundtrack, brute being a kind of soundtrack whose central violence revolves around police brutality. Her early music videos such as hip hop spa and corpcore digitally melted together the aesthetics of luxury hotels, white collar offices, and prisons.
Romare has spent the last year collecting samples and working on a concept. Each of her grimeinfused releases is a vehicle to explore cultural understanding in the digital age, from western fantasies of china to american police brutality. An interview with katja novitskova atractivoquenobello. For her new hyperdub ep, she examines gender performativity. Theres something very intense, magnetic on fatima al qadiri s sounds. In a 2014 interview at the red bull music academy, we heard fatima al qadiri say, its not brute force, referring to her martial artsinspired approach to composition. A grower and, as compliment, here on the list because it scratched the itch normally attended to by fatima al qadiri s works of which no albums were forthcoming this year, sadly and which cold mission by keysound sibling logos just about failed to reach.
Fatima al qadiri on the risks of making queer arabic dance. Few artists in the bass scene are as explicitly conceptual as fatima al qadiri. Fifteen years later, as the first crop of s were going bust, close to 60% of its users and all alexa top 20 sites came from developed nations. Jamia islamia razvia zia ul eiman, 299 reddings lane. Fatima al qadiri is a new yorkbased artist, musician and composer. Mm takes the form of a guided meditation, journeying through the human body and down into the underworld of living soil, with its mycorrhizal network formed of plant roots and fungal threads. Fatima al qadiri shanghai freeway hyperdub bok bok and kelela melbas call night slugs king krule neptune estate travis scott remix xl isaiah rashad tranquillity top dawg entertainment leon vynehall christ air forthcoming 3024 rick ross rich is gangsta def jam recordings vince staples nate feat. Beatport is the worlds largest electronic music store for djs. Fatima and director sophia almaria draw inspiration from a legendary.
Me and my sister played video games as saddam invaded raised by. As future brown, al qadiri and fellow producers nguzunguzu and jcush combined to make a selftitled album released on warp in 2015. Brute is released on march 4 on cd, lp and digital stream battery below. Find music from fatima al qadiri on vinyl, download, cassette and cd formats. The album teeters between rage and despair, heard through restrained percussion, sampled and processed recordings of urban protest, and al qadiris signature minor progressions, the label adds. Fatima al qadiris second solo album is a clear political statement. The following year, al qadiri issued her second hyperdub album, brute. Wednesday, april 18, 2018 durham, nc today, moogfest unveils the full schedule for its 2018 festival, including artistled workshops and conversations, film screenings, the addition of ibm watson creative director jennifer sukis to its keynote. Apr 08, 2014 unlike youtube or skype yy has its own virtual currency. She is interested in exploring the experience of war, memory, western perceptions of other cultures, and sociocultural identity through her. Asiatisch by fatima al qadiri, released 04 march 2016 1. Looking further afield, kuwaiti musician fatima al qadiri, whose work is musically adventurous and conceptually rigorous, releases her new ep, shaneera, through the vital british independent label hyperdub. The soundtrack is out in midnovember while the film hits netflix november 29th.
Watch the video for dragon tattoo from fatima al qadiris asiatisch for free, and see the artwork, lyrics and similar artists. The silence has a voice, and the real music teach you the. Users purchase credits from the site and use these to show a. Producer fatima al qadiri processes police brutality. Tense, tight as nails drum programming and glacial grime synths come together on the tough opening cut shaneera, an arabic vocal with golden teacher esque fx treatment solidifying its dancefloor potential. After a number of highly acclaimed eps, multimedia projects and writings, multidisciplinary artist fatima al qadiri is releasing her first lp, on. Listen to fatima al qadiri soundcloud is an audio platform that lets you listen to what you love and share the sounds you create sixth ring road. Brute, which like her 2014 sinogrimeinspired debut asiatisch arrives via hyperdub, sees the new yorkbased, kuwaitraised artist draw attention to the endangered right of free assembly. Fatima al qadiri is a kuwaiti musician and conceptual artist, currently based in berlin, germany. Warnu as ayshay, released on tri angle and genrespecific xperience uno. Jun 19, 20 novitskova refers to her interrogative position on criticality as being a search mode and the contemporary visual fashion for gulf futurism, as a certain meme, started by tumblr and proliferated by the likes of kari altmann, fatima al qadiri, iain ball and emily jones, among others. Fatima al qadiri shaneera, released october 2017 1. She is interested in exploring the experience of war, memor.
For her new concept ep, desert strike, fatima al qadiri taps into her childhood experience of growing up in kuwait during operation desert storm, and contrasts that reality with the sobering fact that, just a year after the military raids, she and her sister owned and played a fps game called desert strike. Fade to minduno nyctri angle affiliate fatima al qadiri who is famous for her dystopic grimey productions, announced fulllenght debut album titled asiatisch set to release on 5th of may on hyperdub. Fatima al qadiri february 27, 2015 i want to state in no uncertain terms that there are writers attempting to discredit the future brown project by proliferating theories and false notions of a malicious nature that have no factual bearing. Luc gross from digital publisher traumawien and artist bernhard bauch created autonomous bots that published hundreds of ebooks on using text compiled from the comments on youtube videos. How can they even coexist in the same place, the suspicious spectator wonders, the parody of certain islamic traditions proposed by fatima al qadiri and the revaluation of a precolonial mexican mascot courtesy of javier ocampo, with the hedonistic burst in fire island that documents, or imposts, the house of ladosha. Al qadiri then connected with kode9s hyperdub label, where she released the album asiatisch in 2014. Fatima al qadiri is a brooklynbased composer, musician, curator. She joins a movement of like minded artists, including lee gamble, amnesia scanner and fatima al qadiri, who are joining the dots between gallery spaces, critical theory and the dancefloor. Ibm watson creative director added to moogfest keynote program. Fatima al qadiri turbo sculpture english, 2010 video essay, 18.
Because i feel like german is the language of high philosophy in western languages. Fatima al qadiri biography, albums, streaming links. Aside from a special mention to the graphenefine mastering animation of jeremy cox whos previously worked on tunes for fatima al qadiri, her records, lotic weve gotta say this is an exceptional record, but dont expect to get it right away. Index of references to london in global information space with daily updates. Fatima al qadiri follows her brute album with fine bind of queer, arabic culture and durban taxi techno in shaneera, whose title refers to the english mispronunciation of the arabic word, shaneea, literally meaning outrageous, nefarious, hideous, major and foul. Mycorrhizal meditation is a soundart work for free download, accessed via posters in furtherfield gallery and across finsbury park.
On the other side of a wholesome day, were back in the main room for one of the most talkedabout bookings of the weekend. A key voice in modern electronic music reflects on the experiences that shaped her thoughtprovoking sound. Shop for vinyl, cds and more from fatima al qadiri at the discogs marketplace. Fatima al qadiris adult swim single fires the national anthem into space for the fifth year, everyones favorite weirdass tv network is commemorating the summer with a deluge of great. Or at least thats what i thought on my first listenthrough the kuwaiti composers new full length album, out now. Boiler room presents the music video for spiral, a track off fatima al qadiris recent shaneera ep out now on hyperdub.
Fatima al qadiris stream on soundcloud hear the worlds sounds. The sculpture was part of klines freedom exhibit, which used a version of al qadiris star spangled, a baleful synthetic choral track that twisted the u. Fatima al qadiri scores cannes grand prixwinning film atlantics. The cover of fatima al qadiris second hyperdub album, designed by babak radboy, features joerg lohses photograph of a josh kline sculpture a lifesize, teletubbyfaced figure in riot gear.