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

Follow Julmud:
https://www.instagram.com/julmud_1/

Follow Bilna'es:
https://www.instagram.com/bilnaes_/

Buy limited edition vinyl + digital on bilnaes.bandcamp.com

Kassara كسّارة

sssaarry // rrruubby

الف شكر وتحية لكل حد ودانا ورا الشمس 

"Wara el shams," an Egyptian expression translating to "behind the sun" in English, is often used to express that we are going downhill. 

As we collectively navigate through economic crises, climate change, wars, and corruption, the notion of what lies 'behind the sun' serves as a powerful symbol to criticise politicians who have led us to all these irreversible catastrophes.

In the realm of "Wara el shams," we face the stains of political corruption. So, what is it like to be behind the sun?

Visual artwork: ☆نادرنادرنادرنادرنادرنادرنادر☆
Mixing and mastering: Albystander

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Wara El Shams - ورا الشمس

Ahmad Al Qassim & Shadi Abazid (Edit)

MARTINA's interpretation of Hady Moamer's "MN AWEL MARRA," the closing track of "Zekrayat El Mostakbal" where she explores the conflict that fueled the resentment throughout the original track.

Trumpet: https://www.instagram.com/barrkkatt/?hl=en
Mixing & mastering: https://www.instagram.com/marcocaricola__/
Artwork: https://www.instagram.com/mo.art.zone/
Record Label: https://soundcloud.com/leqleem

MN AWEL MARRA - HADY MOAMER X MARTINA (OFFICIAL REMIX)

ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ᴀʀᴛɪꜱᴛ

Firas Shehadeh is a Palestinian artist and researcher based in Vienna. His work engages with worldbuilding, meaning, aesthetics, and identity after/on the Internet. He is interested in post-colonial effects, technology, and history. He holds a Master of Fine Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

His work has been exhibited internationally, including Images Festival (Toronto, 2024), Centre d’Art Santa Mònica (Barcelona, 2023), Filmforum (Los Angeles, 2023), Unsafe+Sounds (Vienna, 2023), Qattan Foundation (Ramallah, 2023), Belvedere 21 (Vienna, 2023), the 7th Cairo Video Festival (2017), and Berlinale Forum Expanded (2014).

https://soundcloud.com/firasshehadeh
https://www.firasshehadeh.com/
https://firasshehadeh.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/firas.shehade

🌿 ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ꜱᴏɴɪᴄ ᴀɢᴇɴᴄʏ

…being together, in community

As we have always dealt with sound as a political category, our activism is based on listening and focuses on the revolutionary potential that is inherent in the sonic. Under the banner of Sonic Agency we want to enforce a sonic activism of opposition and resistance. The artists involved are advocating for social and political transformation. Their sounds lend themselves to global emancipatory struggles, and fights for freedom and equality. The featured sounds aren’t complicit in the silence that surrounds us. They are furious, desperate, crying, paralysed, compassionate and rebellious like us. There is a message in sound that cannot be negated.

Listening is not neutral.
Listening shapes the reality we live in.
Listening is shaped by ethics and politics and leads back to it.
Listening is directly linked to memory and identity.
Listening is as important as speaking.
Listing is an active act.

Read the full curatorial statement here
strumandiodine.com/article/sonic-agency/

SONIC AGENCY - FIRAS SHEHADEH - "Jabalia"

حالِة عَمَّارْ

https://soundcloud.com/basharsuleiman
https://soundcloud.com/lilasaf

Bashar Suleiman ft. Lil Asaf - 6afi Ho (Xmas Freestyle)

re 50 lc

My track for NoSR In Search Of Hope Compilation / @nosuitrecords
Release Date: 01/05/2020
Mastering: Aimée Portioli

sssaarry // rrruubby

sary moussa // sssaarry

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