An emblematic artist of the Palestinian underground scene, SAMA’ is one of the first DJs and electronic music producers to emerge from the region. Her sound, an original punchy kind of techno, is dry and musical all at once and has quickly made its way across Europe and beyond.
 
SAMA, meaning ‘sky’ in Arabic, started mixing in 2006 in parties around Ramallah, Palestine. Several years later she started producing her own music and expanding her interest in synthesis in 2010, with a focus on techno, house, and other deeper sub-genres of electronic music.
 
The artist graduated from the United Kingdom with a BSc in Audio Engineering and Music Production, then moved to Cairo where she worked as a sound designer for film, became a music producer and then instructor. SAMA’ now runs her own Audio Engineering & Sound Design company working across films and documentaries in the Middle East. In 2017, she was selected as a Laureate by the French Institute, and during that time attended a residency at the International City of Arts in Paris. SAMA’ also runs a publishing company called Awyav, representing independent artists from the Arab world.
 
In late 2018, SAMA’s Boiler Room performance and the associated documentary about the scene in Palestine went viral and more and more people are seeing that music has no boundaries. SAMA’ was recently listed in SheSaid.So’s Alternative Power 100 List, and plays a high-profile set at Ibiza’s World Heritage Site of Dalt Vila for the International Music Summit in late May. She is currently working on a studio album.

Nina Boukhari
(electric bass, prepared ghembri, percussion)

French-Moroccan sound artist and performer Nina Boukhari (aka Nina Hoppas) explores the relationship between sound, rhythm, and identity through electric bass, prepared ghembri, and electronic devices. 

Founder of the PhOEMina festival, an Italian-French platform dedicated to women and all minorities in avant-garde music, she alternates between solo productions and collaborations with musicians and visual performers.

She has developed an improvisational practice combining electronic sensibility and traditional Moroccan practices, giving shape to a decolonial sound presence.

She is currently based in Naples, where she has developed several projects, notably with video artist and performer Tiziana Salvati, with whom she improvises in close collaboration with aerial dance artists. She has also collaborated with musician Nadia Daou, alias NÂR, Paed Conca, Mario Gabola, Stefano Costanzo, and Alessandra Zerbinati (musician and performer).
Calembour, Zyklus, Fabrizio Elvetico, Chris Pennig, Paolo
Montella, Ilaria Capalbo, Alberto Cosenza (illustrator), Eva Di Iorio (trapeze artist), Daniela Pagani (dancer), Marie-Thérèse Sitzia (dancer), Laura
Simonet (dancer), Laura Villani (dancer), and Sara Strood
(documentary on sound design)

She is currently collaborating on a trio project with musician Kamilya Jubran (oud and vocals) and Mario Gabola (saxophone arrangements and feedback).

FM and S-odium are the two solo project  of Luciano Genovese . FM born at the end of 90's. FM play different forms of electronic, similar to IDM. S-odium born in the middle 2000, play music similar to drone, droneambient, whitout rhythm parts.You can search my videos on youtube, see on info web for my channel.

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