Tuqoos, Julmuds debut album release is a 15 track project rooted in heavy beats that bend space and time to subvert forms of enclosure. The sounds have an almost granular detailed texture while maintaining a gripping rhythmic flow via dense bass lines and a bitter sweetness in the melodies, blurring the lines between hanging on a street corner, at a protest or in a club. Produced in Ramallah - Palestine, Tuqoos pushes up against otherwise inaccessible space, resisting the conditions of a body in capture through sounds that morph, slip through and create breaks in times and spaces that remain occupied.


All tracks produced and recorded by Julmud
Artwork by Ruanne Abou-Rahme & Basel Abbas
Typography + CGI by @moonistudio
Mastered by Kelly Hibbert (Almachrome)
Bilna’es, 2022

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Ishi Hawa I اشي هوائي

Qow - ElMosameh Serine 
@hiqow

Every question is a track & all the tracks are samples of Sherine

"El Mosameh Sherine is built on unanswered immersive loops that repeat until they collapse and vanish in silence. It is entirely composed of samples and rearrangements of musical phrases taken from Sherine Abdel-Wahab. Sherine’s ability to musically and lyrically translate heartbreak was utilised on this album to emotionally investigate a specific state of strength that one gains from (un)forgiving a loved one.
This album is dedicated to my mom and I perceive it as a second-hand heartbreak experience."


Produced by Omar El Sadek
Harp on Track #8 by Mariana Jouzová
Mastering by Oliver Torr
Typography by Germine Walid
Artwork by Omar El Sadek

Limited Edition of 52 tapes.

ElMosameh Sherine

Qow - Menak Lelah

Written And Preformed: Lil Asaf 
Prod: Bashar Suleiman 
Mix: Bashar Suleiman & Amir Shoat 
Master: Amir Shoat

Manama 19

Estanna

Ajyal V2

Tribute to Brian Eno, Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto

By This River PD Mix

I'm scared
So afraid to show I care
Will he think me weak
If I tremble when I speak?

So Afraid to Show I Care sees Theo Alexander & Qow assume the role of gleaners and foragers, collecting fragments from over a year of collaboration to produce a palimpsest of sonic layers. Their 30-minute micro-epic is built on an ethic of bricolage, covering tape-recorded ambience, voice note instrumentals, warped acapellas and growling double basses, all of which play out in an uninterrupted narrative.

As unabashedly experimental as it is emotional, the album’s diverse landscape features Egyptian spoken word artist otteswed (formerly known as Aly Talibab) and improvising contrabassist Klára Pudláková. On the leading single, Addictive, Pudláková’s double bass, enters into a melodic dialogue with yearning vocal samples. Towards the end of the album, otteswed delivers an existential soliloquy above waves of organ chords performed by Theo Alexander who sampled church organs from Prague, London and Orford. This album brings together material from a string of high-profile premieres across Europe and the UK featuring a rotating cast of collaborators.

Along with the digital release of the album, comes a limited-edition double cassette tape that includes both the album and selected Live performances from CTM festival ‘25, and PAF festival ‘24 featuring George Cremaschi on Contrabass.

Theo Alexander (London, UK) and Qow (Cairo, Egypt) began working together in 2023, and have respectively been featured in NPR, The Quietus, The Wire, and supported by Shape+, Britten-Pears Arts, and others. 
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Music written and composed by Theo Alexander & Omar El Sadek
Double bass on Tracks 3, 5, and 9 by Klára Pudláková
Double bass on Live Recording tape by George Cremaschi
Vocals on Track 7 by otteswed
Mixed & Mastered by Oliver Torr
Live recording mixed by George Cremaschi
Artwork by Omar El Sadek, design by Niels Wehrspann

Theo Alexander & Qow - So Afraid To Show I Care (Continuous)

Rohirrim to Valhalla

Chances

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Sawa Sawa [APR126]

Lil Asaf, 'Balki (prod. Khadije)' (2020). Courtesy Astral Plane Recordings, United States.

Video series
Live + DJ sets
Killer compilations

Qow - Menak Lelah

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