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player of cello, singer of loud, soft, punk, rock, pretty, crazy songs

Imane is an Algerian-American performing artist exploring the cultural and political intersection of somatics and the voice. She studied music in Paris and New York. She is currently a student of cosmic harmony, astrology, and the many trans and BIPOC activists/elders who have blazed a path for her. She currently lives on unceded Mohican-Lenape lands New York's Hudson Valley.

Since 1995, NYC’s Other Music record shop has had a big hand in defining the sound of the underground, helping to establish the careers (and career resurgences) of hundreds of artists, with a wide-ranging aesthetic that includes everything from indie pop to left-field electronica, folk, funk, psychedelia, dub, free jazz, post-punk, avant-classical, hip-hop and much more. For more than a decade and a half, through myriad changes in the “biz,” Other has stayed true to their one goal, connecting great unheard music with passionate music fans, and with their weekly new-release newsletter reaching more than thirty-five thousand subscribers, an MP3 download store, a mail-order website, and a busy East Village retail shop, they have become an icon and last bastion of indie retail. Now, in partnership with Fat Possum, Other is launching their own label, Other Music Recording Co., to bring the same varied taste and enthusiasm that has always defined their retail store to this new venture.

Other’s first release, OM-001, drops on April 24: Ex Cops’ debut 7-inch,  “You Are a Lion, I Am a Lamb” b/w “The Millionaire.” This new Brooklyn group’s hazy mix of influences draws on vintage British and New Zealand indie, Factory Records and a Velvets/Feelies jangle that is distinctly New York, all with their own sunbaked pop vision. What began as a bedroom-recording project for Brian Harding has been fleshed out into a full band, and Ex Cops are now putting the finishing touches on their debut album in the studio with producer John Siket, due out on Other later this year.

Also due this spring on Other, the debut solo album from Shintaro Sakamoto, the former frontman of the legendary Japanese psychedelic group Yura Yura Teikoku. Over the course of their 20 years together, that band rose from the storied Japanese psychedelic underground to huge mainstream success in their homeland (and cult status around the world), with a wholly original sound that defies definition. The group disbanded in 2010, and Sakamoto set off into uncharted waters on his new solo material, working mostly alone to create a stunning set of quiet, percussive songs that draw on ‘70s folk and AM radio pop from the U.S., U.K. and Japan, as well as folk forms from across continents and eras; How to Live with a Phantom, released late last year in Sakamoto’s own Zelone label in Japan, is an enigma and an instant classic that blew so many minds at the Other Music shop when a few imports trickled in, they had to release it themselves.

Other Music Recording Co. will surprise and enlighten fans of underground music with a roster of diverse artists from around the world, releasing new music and under-appreciated classics from their reissue division, and with this strategic partnership with Fat Possum you will be hearing a lot more from Other in the coming months.

Traditionally trained in classical guitar from age 8 by my grandfather, Edward van Doornum (Concert Master for the Symphony Orchestra of Den Haag in The Netherlands, during the 20’s and 30’s), I also ventured out to learn jazz, blues and rock in the years that followed. 

Completing the AMEB Classical Guitar exams in High School, shortly after I undertook a Bachelor of Composition Degree from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, graduating in 2007, where I performed in and composed for the Conservatorium Chamber Choir. During which time I also composed the original score for several short films, and was awarded second place in the 2006/2007 Allan Zavod Jazz/Classical Composition Award. Since graduating I have worked as a session performer, composer and arranger for several music and film production companies such as CTC, Level 2, Milko and Maxitone. 

Arriving in New York in 2009, I hit the ground running, performing at renowned venues such as Joe’s Pub, Rockwood Music Hall and Cameo Gallery with several bands and artists as well my own psychedelic-folk-rock band, eüsh. I also gave a performance of solo Classical Guitar repertoire at CFM Gallery in Soho for the opening night of Anne Bacheliers ‘La Fantôme de l'Opéra’. 

Back in Australia in 2010, I was awarded the ArtStart Grant from the Australia Council for the Arts to further enhance my career as a composer/performer, and in 2011 was a finalist in the APRA Professional Development Award. Later that year I recorded a debut, full-length album with eüsh and also composed the original music for the Australian premier of Stephen Jefrey's The Libertine through Sport For Jove Theatre Company in August and September of 2011. The production was the recipient of many awards including the Time Out People’s Choice Award for Best Production of 2011. 

After re-locating to New York City in 2012, I have been working as a Audio/Mix Engineer, Producer, Studio Coordinator and assistant to Diko Shoturma at Atlantic Sound Studios in DUMBO where I have worked with Grammy award winning acts such as Snarky Puppy and World Music artist, Banda Magda. I also assisted at Trout Recording Studios in Brooklyn with Bryce Goggin, and produced a debut album from singer Jesse Quattro and multi- instrumentalist Shahzad Ismaily, for their band IV. I also composed the original score for several Off-Broadway theatre productions such as a new play by Lupe Gehrenbeck entitled Alice In Teresa's Land, which premiered at The Producer's Club in NYC, November 2013.

Most recently, I composed a partial score for an IMAX feature from Helifilms entitled The Earth Wins. I also scored a short film by Matt Downey (the 2008 Jury Prize winner at Cannes Film Festival) called Fun City, and have been freelance composing for Nylon Studios based in Soho, NYC.


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