hasan khann

This EP was produced in four intense days in Ljubljana as part of my one month GESTUS insanity (A large array of works produced in different methods in the span of 3 weeks opening at Cukrarna on 15/4/2025 and running untill 17/8/2025). I first wrote and scored four songs while putting together (with the help of drummer/musician Jaka Berger) a fictional band titled GESTUS - where each musician had an alter ego (with a name and a whole persona). We then had two(!!) rehearsal sessions where we honed the material and developed the alter egos - and on the third day the band performed the songs live (!!!) on the Radio followed by a conversation with them through their alter-egos. Thee songs are all attempts to grapple with current material and emotional conditions we share in our accelerated world. The ideas was that each musician had supposedly written their own song and thus the songs span several genres yet have subtle litte radical formal twists (Linda Ronstatd meets a Gospel rhythm / A Straight proto-punk motorik beat meets a vocal hymn / a trip-hoppy syncopations resolves in seemingly cheery disco and a group drone improv is accompanied by straight singing). The line-up is (fictional name first :) ) 

Roger Bling (Jaka Berger): Drums
Kris (David Kocmur): Guitar and Synth
Noelle Yugomi (Kaja Skrbinšek): Vocals
Mike Vukovich (Tim Vremec): Bass


Recording and Mixing Engineer: Jure Anzicek
Recorded at Radio Student Studios, Ljublana on 7/4/2025

All SONGS WRITTEN COMPOSED AND PRODUCED BY HASSAN KHAN (C) 2025

01 The New Age

UPCOMING: THE INFINITE HIP-HOP SONG LIVE! @ SONICA FESTIVAL - LJUBLJANA
Thursday, 17.04.25, 20:00
Cukrarna
https://www.facebook.com/events/1606568490019320
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The Infinite Hip-Hop Song Live!

Fire bars and rhymes, shifting bass-lines, mutating beats, elastic melodies all put together live into one evolving set using a custom-made digital interface. Developed from Khan's forward looking algorithmic music installation of the same name - the set relies on a vast database of original  beats, melodies, bass-lines as well as vocal units from ten specially written songs recorded in the studio with eleven rappers of diverse backgrounds.

Hassan Khan has been making adventurous music since his 90s debut in Cairo, and is considered one of the pioneers of experimental and contemporary approaches in the region. With tabla dubb (2001) he began developing sets that offer unique takes on various genres like New Shaabi in The Big One, Arabic Music in Taraban, New Music in Live Ammunition! Music for Clapping, String Quartet and Live Electronics and hip-hop in his currently touring set The Infinite Hip-Hop Song Live! Concert appearances include: Morphine Raum, Berlin (2024); Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2023); D-CAF Cairo (2023); Vega, Copenhagen (2023); Sonic Shaman Festival, Taipei (2022); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2022); Contact(less) Festival MAXXI L’Aquila, Aquila (2021);Maerz Musik Festival, Berlin (2013 / 2017 / 2018); Ruhrtriennale, Essen (2018); Intonal Festival, Malmö (2017); The Guggenheim Museum, NYC (2016); Portikus, Frankfurt am Main (2015) and The Louvre Auditorium, Paris (2012). Khan is also an acclaimed artist and writer: he is the winner of the 57th Venice Biennale Silver Lion, and since 2018 Professor of Fine Arts at Städelschule in Frankfurt. Recent major solo exhibitions include Blind Ambition a large survey at Centre Pompidou, Paris (2022) and The Keys to the Kingdom at Reina Sofia, Madrid (2019). His latest album is SUPERSTRUCTURE EP (The Vinyl Factory).


