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Kadef Abgi came together in a serendipitous way. Devin Brahja Waldman was walking up St. Laurent borough in Montreal when he heard an otherworldly voice emanating from the venue Divan Orange. He walked in and listened to the singer on stage. When he was done, Devin walked over to him. After a short exchange about playing a house show in a couple of days, Ziad Qoulaii told Devin that he was available for all his projects. Shortly thereafter, Devin and Ziad met up at Mathieu Pelletier-Gagnon’s studio with Anas Jellouf and Hamza Lahmadi. Later on, Anas Hejam, Vicky Mettler and guitarist Sam Shalabi (Shalabi Effect, The Dwarfs Of East Agouza, Karkhana, Land Of Kush…) joined.

The music materialized in a natural, collectively improvised way, without any compositions or ideas discussed beforehand - and without second takes. From there, Waldman began editing and mixing. Ala Dehghan painted the album’s great artwork.

A single composer’s imagination would not have produced Diva Of Deva Loka as it is music created from a collective consciousness unfolding in real time. The album has its roots in each musician’s  sonic experience: this includes Arabic music —including most notably Moroccan Gnawa— as well as rock ‘n‘ roll, jazz and the avant-garde. 

Devin Brahja Waldman is a New York saxophonist, drummer, synthesizer player and composer. He has performed with Patti Smith, Thurston Moore, Lydia Lunch along many other artists. He has also accompanied his aunt, the poet Anne Waldman, since the age of ten. He leads a NYC/Montreal-based band, B R A H J A, performs in Heroes Are Gang Leaders and is a member of Artists For A Free World Marching Band. Along with Anne Waldman and his cousin Ambrose Bye, Waldman co-directs Fast Speaking Music—a still-active music and poetry label which has released the works of Amiri Baraka, Meredith Monk, CA Conrad, and many others.

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JAUBI continue the Nafs journey, which commenced with the single “Satanic Nafs” (featuring the remix by legendary LA producers The Gaslamp Killer & Mophono) released in March 2021. Now JAUBI draw on the elements of North Indian classical music, Hip-Hop and modal/spiritual jazz in their debut LP entitled “Nafs At Peace”.

The journey officially began back in April 2019 when London’s multi- instrumentalist and 22a Record label boss Ed “Tenderlonious” Cawthorne and Polish pianist/composer Marek “Latarnik” Pędziwiatr of EABS/Błoto, visited the group to record in Lahore.

Together they channelled their personal struggles at that time into the two recording sessions allowing the musicians to find a spiritual path through this musical purge.

Nothing whatsoever was written down during the recording sessions - no sheet music and no song titles, which allowed the six musicians to forget about their worldly issues.

In many ways, the journey represents a struggle and an expression of gratitude and an acknowledgement that the musician's inspiration comes from a higher power. The album cover portrays the mother of JAUBI’s bandleader, tearfully praying to God to get her son through that dark period of his life.

The first step of the journey can be heard on “Satanic Nafs” which refers to the lowest level of the Self which was released 26th March 2021 through Astigmatic Records.

The album title ‘Nafs At Peace’ refers to the last purification step the self has been through. At this level, the Self no longer struggles because one has complete love of God, by becoming at peace and tranquil with God’s will. We hope all can achieve the stage of “Nafs At Peace” … Inshallah. 


CREDITS:
All songs composed by Ali Riaz Baqar except for 'Mosty' composed by Marek Pędziwiatr

Ali Riaz Baqar - Guitar
Zohaib Hassan Khan - Sarangi
Qammar 'Vicky' Abbas - Drums
Kashif Ali Dhani - Tabla, Vocals
Tenderlonious - Flute, Soprano Saxophone
Latarnik - Fender Rhodes Mark II, Grand Piano, Yamaha PSR-550,
Korg MS-20, Moog Voyager, Hohner Clavinet Pianet Duo
The Vox Humana Chamber Choir - Vocals on 'Seek Refuge'

Recorded at Riot Studios in Lahore, Pakistan in April 2019 (A2, A3, A4, B1, B2) and Newtone Studios in Oslo, Norway in August 2019 (A1, B3)

Session Engineers: André Viervoll (Newtone Studios) annd Farhad Humayun (Riot Studios)

Mix: Rhys Downing
Mastering: Paweł Bartnik
Executive Producer: Łukasz Wojciechowski
A&R: Łukasz Wojciechowski, Sebastian Jóźwiak & Oliver Reeves
Photography: Ali Riaz Baqar, Uzma Rao, Sebastian Jóźwiak
Graphic design: Animisiewasz
Calligraphy: İlkay Kanar

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Black Lives Matter. Indigenous Lives Matter. Defund the Police.
Our new record, ETERNA is free to download from https://phedre.bandcamp.com/. 
Instead of paying for this record, PLEASE SUPPORT THE BLACK LEGAL ACTION CENTRE (BLAC).
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Phèdre wrote and recorded most of this EP on Mozart O., in a Montreal apartment in 2013. After seven years of wistful dreaming, twists and turns, we have finally taken ETERNA from the shelf and polished it off like a mature wine. ETERNA is inspired by the processes of fracturing continuums and collectively transcending. We hope you enjoy it, and that it may provide some imagination and primal escape in these uncertain times. Thank you for listening to our artistic expressions.
Love, Phèdre

All songs written, performed, recorded, mixed and mastered by Phèdre, except for Passenger which was written by Iggy Pop and Ricky Gardiner.
Eclipsed features Benjamin Proulx-Mathers on guitar/fx.
Passenger features Jozef Racek on rhythm guitar.
Special thanks to Carl Didur for running the mixes through tape.
Cocoon was originally released years ago, under a compilation organized by Casey Mecija.

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