CanyouhearthEkaching??

Mixing Khyam Allami
Mastering Jesse Osborne-Lanthier
Artwork Studio Kawakeb
Amygdala records 2021

Relentless and heavy dark electronic beats mingle with anger and anguish on Liliane Chlela’s latest album “Safala”. The Lebanese producer and hybrid DJ tapped into her personal memories to bring forth a sonic concoction anchored in the inherited oral epistemologies of her ancestors. Memories intertwine with Beirut, using incantations inherited from Chlela’s grandmother as building blocks to build an eight track album. From warding off the evil eye to protest sounds from the past year of events in Lebanon, the album haunts the listener to invoke a striking elegy on terror and anger, while inducing a rollercoaster of sonic eruptions.

Most of the sound palette was organically produced to mimic the remains of situations during which Chlela’s sonic memory aligned with the ‘keywords’ from the aforementioned incantations.

Safala

Moukassarat

Track 13 from our compilation "did you mean: irish Vol. 2" by @0n4b


Audio from an A/V collaboration between 0N4B (ABADIR x Onsy) and multi disciplinary artist Castell Lanko.

Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHZrpO9IDA0

did you mean: irish vol II

0N4B - Cybernetic Emptiness

Track 04 from our compilation "did you mean: irish Vol.2" by @ashrardj

Ashrar - Granulosis

In 2022 during the great plaque, work began compiling ‘Weld’ a 17 track chef-d'œuvre featuring 16 brand new MC and collaborators, a worldwide vocalist arsenal celebrating Kinlaw’s scope as a producer and a bedrock for multilingual messaging.

“Global noise-rap punktronics from a global guest cast of MCs and vocalists from Bristol to Togo, Uganda to Palestine - steeped in the mystery and folklore of a small town in Dorset, England. Weld is the defining statement of the Kinlaw universe“

Weld was assembled with 30 dubs, chats at the pub and a few emails. Some artist like Operation Egodeath, Robin Stewart (of Giant Swan infame), Dali de Saint Paul, Kelan, D Ham are confirmed members of the shadowy Avon Terror Corps shadowy, Ceramics alumni or Bristol underground friends like Birthmark or Danny Nedelko (of Heavy Lungs / IDLES infamy). At its core Weld is a celebration of this strong local scene - in Kinlaw’s world, local is global - through internet or psychic projection, we are all one. The link-up with Jordan’s premiere avant garde outlet Drowned By Locals is an important expression of this no-borders attitude - with them providing a jumping point to a wealth of vocal talent from the Middle East and beyond. 

Opening with Abdel Ja7eem Hafeth wrenching cover of Johnny Thunders -Society Makes me sad, sung in arabic. After the dust settles, things begin as they intend to go on with the belter Zazuka featuring Ugandan MC, Activist and Nyege Nyege hero Ecko Bazz. Effected Signaller features Togolese No Corner / Rwdfwd vocalist Yao Bobby. In the second part of WELD, Tunisian Toxic Club soldiers Flow Tha Key and Dryveins bring their respective mellow and doom performances in Kinchasa and Too Many Signals; followed later by Palestinian MC MrF13’s Strategically Demorphed, staving off total collapse in an isolated vault which is falling apart; a Sisyphean journey to madness. In ملوك الشغب , Kafr El Dauwar singer, composer and songwriter Ibrahim X brings the mixtape’s energy to an unexpected turn with his famous full blown Egyptian wedding aesthetics, only to be grounded towards the end by Elvin Brandhi’s Speech Plasticity.

Accompanying the album are a collection of cards, the origins, motive & gameplay is still unknown. Story has it they were originally discovered in the flooded basement of Castlemeadesque, Barclays House in Poole, Dorset. Described by one google user as “Mirroring Corfe Castle in Modern Brutalist style.” and also home to peregrine falcons.  The offices were abandoned two years ago, and the cards, in 3 sets of five, were recovered by one of the bank employees. Masterley restored for Weld by Winchester Picture Corps.

WELD

Kinlaw - Effected Signaller ft Yao Bobby

Kinlaw - Curtains ft Birthmark

1127 Live@ In Potentia ii Falaki Theater

MOSHTRQ is an audiovisual collective from Cairo, Egypt, comprised of Ambi, Ashrar, Balla3058, Belahadaf, Karim Serry, Postdrone, Timo1_2, and Yaseen.

This mix compiles original productions by the MOSHTRQ crew, including selections from our upcoming debut VA album.

https://www.nts.live/shows/postdrone/episodes/postdrone-15th-april-2023

FAK AGZA2 W POSTDRONE & MOSHTRQ 150423

موطني (صولو جيتار)

ZULI - Terminal (UIQLP003)

Pre-Order - https://bit.ly/2J0SsJs

Format - Double LP / Digital
Release date - November 02nd 2018
Mastered by Helmut Erler at Dubplates & Mastering
Design - Dave Gaskarth
Photography - Selim El Sadek
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Kollu l-Joloud — Lyrics by MSYLMA

و من جماجمنا سلما لمجدنا
و لعزة النفس؟ ملحمة آثمة
كل الجلود: سيان اذا اخترقت
هل أتت الساعة ام إقتربت؟
كل الذنوب قد إقترفت
أوراق صمودى قطفت 

و لعلى طريد من عفوك لكنى لا أعجز عن محاسبة نفسي على ما انتهكت
اهلكت نفسى بطغيانى بعقلى بيدى بفمى أبدمى طهرت؟

B3 — Kollu l-Joloud (ft. MSYLMA)

الصَوْت الخام غَيْر المُعالج للبَرَابِرَة قُطّاع الطُرُق والمُهَمَّشين والمُتَشَرِّدين والهَمَج، إلّا أن قُلُوبُهُم رَقِيقَة

𝙑𝙤𝙞𝙘𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙖𝙧𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙯𝙚𝙙 𝙗𝙧𝙪𝙩𝙚𝙨, 𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙛𝙞𝙩𝙨, 𝙨𝙖𝙫𝙖𝙜𝙚𝙨, 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙙𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙖𝙩 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩

Kinlaw - Curtains ft Birthmark

DrownedByLocals

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