A truly magical, highly original, otherworldly landscape of experimental Arabic, electronica, avant-pop, dark ambient and industrial forms by the Beirut-born, Amsterdam-based musician, sound designer, producer, film-maker singer and composer. Using layālī vocalizations, repurposed regional samples, processed classical instruments, synthesizers, and non-linear acoustic, analog, and digital rhythms, this is described as a sonic language shaped by the sediment of thematic recursive collapse. Treating collapse as a language, Geitani’s work imagines futures that lie beyond it, focusing on what is often overlooked in the midst of ruin, what survives, thrives, and lingers. It’s an album very much out on its own in terms of sound, from the slow smooth ambience of opener Hal with Geitani’s mesmeric voice circling above and on many other draks , the dark, thunderous drums and squiggles of electronica of the fabulousYa Sah, rapid beats and rippling keyboard riffs on the acceleratingly intense La, or the jazzy skips and noodles of Ruwaydan Ruwaydan. The fascination and unpredictability of his creativity continues throughout the 17 tracks, some of which are under two-minutes, up to the slowly unfolding and cinematic 11-minute instrumental closer Madda Muddada. A unique sonic experience, a marvellous boundary-pushing release to transport the listener to magical and new imaginative realms. Self-released.
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