‘Exist’ showcases the thriving counterculture of Palestine and beyond. Seeking to build bridges between local sound innovators, the many that have been displaced, and connecting them with the experienced minds to learn from. ‘Exist’ highlights the brightest musical visionaries in the global electronic, dance and experimental music scene.

–

https://www.facebook.com/Existfestivalpalestine/
https://www.instagram.com/existfestival.ps/

Exist Palestine

Exist no. 19 brings Palestininan multidisciplinary musician Dirar Kalash and Jordan’s mysterious Skyla.

Dirar Kalash (b. 1982) is a musician and sound artist whose work spans a wide range of musical and sonic practices within a variety of instrumental, compositional and improvisational contexts. Kalash also extends his practice into inter-disciplinary theoretical research. He has produced several solo and collaborative musical albums and is active as a touring musician. In addition he has created several sound installations, live audio-visual performances, and photography projects.

Skyla is a producer from Amman, Jordan whose first EP called "EL WA7L" meant to create industrial pools of the pollution and pleasure of the absurd was premiered on the label Xquisite Tracks London.

for what is flesh alone?
what is flesh, alone?
you may see it and feel only disgust
you may see it in the gutter, drunken
or in the coffin, dead.
the world’s as full.. of flesh
as a grocer’s counter is of candles at the start of winter.
But not until you’ve brought a candle home
and lit it
can it give you comfort.

Exist Palestine brings forward the highly talented local artists and the brightest musical visionaries in the global electronic music scene. Exist seeks to build bridges between international artists, Palestinian sound innovators, the many that have been displaced, and musicians who are unable to attend the festival due to politically set restrictions. The lineups consist of artists who participated in Exist Festival 2019 as well as the ones who will be invited to play the next editions.

Exist Festival:

www.soundcloud.com/threadsradio/sets/exist-palestine
www.facebook.com/Existfestivalpalestine
www.instagram.com/existfestival.ps

Dirar Kalash:

www.instagram.com/dirrklsh
www.albayan.bandcamp.com
www.discogs.com/artist/4528076-Dirar-Kalash

Skyla:

www.soundcloud.com/skylawala
www.instagram.com/skylawala

Listen to Threads* at www.threadsradio.com

EXIST w/ Dirar Kalash & Skyla (Threads*Palestine) - 14-Jul-21

Musician and composer Sahba Sizdahkhani serves as a unique crossroad of East meets West. Influenced heavily by both 1960’s spiritual free-jazz and Persian Classical Music, he channels the fire-energy and longing for connectivity these two stormy histories represent. At age 12, his self-proclaimed “aha moment” occurred while listening to The John Coltrane Quartet for the very first time. He was hooked and immediately began studies on jazz drum set and classical snare drum.
     As the years passed, however, his ferocious love of jazz and improvisation would open pathways and pointers to his native roots of Persian Classical Music, and eventually, he would begin formal studies on the Iranian santur with master santur player Faraz Minooei.
     Sahba has completed two separate Bachelor of Arts degrees: one at Berklee College of Music, in Jazz performance, and the other at The University of Maryland, in Art History & Archeology. He worked in Paris for several years in textile design but ultimately moved back to New York city to further pursue jazz drumming.
He has composed film scores for Chelsea Winstanley (JoJo Rabbit), Whalerock Industries, maverick avant filmmaker Paul Clipson, as well as a live score performance for the Cinema 16 series in the legendary tunnel underneath the Manhattan Bridge.
Additionally, Sahba has recently recorded with Michael Morley(Dead C) and currently has running musical collaborations with Derek Monypeny, Rob Magill, and Zachary James Watkins + Ross Peacock.
He has shared live bills with a vastly diverse class of artists including Laraaji, C spencer Yeh, Susan Alcorn, Henry Kaiser, Rova Saxophone Quartet, Sunwatchers, Wizard Apprentice, Talibam!, Plankton Wat, Peter Brötzmann, and Don Dietrich (Barbetomagus). He has performed at The White House, Park Avenue Armory, Kennedy Center for the Arts, Basilica Hudson’s 24 Hour Drone Festival, WFMU live performance, “Fire Over Heaven” at Outpost Artist Resources, The Embassy of France, VOA studios, and Garden of Memory Festival at The Chapel of the Chimes.
Sahba’s hazy, atmospheric solo performances with 104-string santour and drums have been described as “a dispatch from antiquity.” And WIRE magazine recently stated “Sahba Sizdahkhani starts playing [his] instrument as if  he's pleading for his life. His playing is breathtaking. . .”
     This particular work, “GANJ,” which translates to “treasure” in Farsi, documents the magical first meeting between a musician and a new instrument. It is the first ever raw, unrefined recording of Sahba on solo santur as opposed to drum set. It was recorded in solitude during the Winter Solstice of 2019 without any prior training or study whatsoever on the mystical 102-stringed trapezoid dulcimer. The consequent emphasis due to lack of any technical skill,  was pure sonics, overtones, resonances, and an homage to minimalist composers such as Terry Riley, La Monte Young, and early Miles Davis. Days after completing this work, Sahba rushed to seek out formal studies of the Persian Classical Radif with his current teacher, Faraz Minooei.

Sahba Sizdahkhani- Ganj Pt. 4 - from Ganj tape on Cassauna

ITHER LAZER - Radio Mars Show #8 DEEMPHASIS LIVE - 06.11.21

A more personal track, experimental, representing the feelings of extreme depression in soundwaves and rhythms.

Voidloss - These Prisons Of Ours

Intro - Miasma (Myra Davies & Gudrun Gut) 
minus77degrees - Pasajera Oscura 
Twenty Two Seconds - Large Number 
24hs bells dub - chra/Anna Steiden 
III - Kaffe Matthews, Andrea Neumann, Sachiko M 
Debris - Shelley Parker Remix (Test Dept)
Contraband - Zeena Parkins & Ikue Mori 
Ingrid - Klara Lewis 
IJ Variation - Minit 
Grief - Andrea Parker Remix (Ryuichi Sakamoto) 
Louhi - AGF
This One's broken - People like us 
Afrique du Mal - Mira Calix 
Empty - Tujiko Noriko 
Closer - Sir Alice 
Bye Bye Butterfly (1965) - Pauline Oliveros 
How Sandra met Aeron - Suetso & Underwood 
interlude - Maja Ratkje 
Prayer - Pan Sonic Remix, Parts A, B, C (Ryuichi Sakamoto)
Theseatheforestthegarden - Marina Rosenfeld
Kat_taet - chra 
Virgin Moon - Hecate 
Nebel - Shampoo Boy 
Confidence - Susanna Brokesch 
Sea People - Emiliana Torrini 
Fluch - Paradiso Infernal 

"a short glimpse on my electronic music universe ive been listening to since mid80ies and in terms of feminism, diy, selfempowerment, electronic resistance, friendship and female:pressure: Music makes the people come together (Madonna aka Madame X) 
thank your for the music! 
everything i am i became through you!"

Φ
https://soundcloud.com/chra
https://www.instagram.com/christinachra/
https://chraemego.bandcamp.com/album/seamons

SI062 - CHRA

Bedouin Records: Constantine Skourlis introducing MaK. - 17/12/2021

Bedouin Records Constantine Skourlis Introducing MaK. - 17/12/2021

Charlie Noir | Root Radio 30/12/2021

All music written and produced by Morphtables at Tyumen studio in 2017-2021

Mastered by Salih Topuz at Cambazli HQ.

Artwork by Morphtables
Zanderhythm.com
https://zanderhythm.bandcamp.com/album/chronogramma

Chronogramma

Morphtables - Vipassana

City Diaries
Bruno Bernard 2024
(english)
"City Diaries" is a refection on our city lives, a daily imaginary journey that invites us to
introspection. Te world of sound that surrounds us is experienced in a unique way by
each and every one of us, yet we all share it.
Each stroll is unique, each moment unique.
It's up to us to make these situations our own, to build our own dream cosmology.
Considering the creative power of what surrounds us as a tool for inner construction, as
poetry, is a response to our materialistic lives and can help us better apprehend the
modern world.
True to Gaston Bachelard, the aim here is to give free rein to daydreaming, while at the
same time giving full artistic expression to the noise of our times, an essential concept
developed by Luigi Russolo.
City Diaries was composed from sounds collected at night in my city (Chalon sur
Saône), which gave rise to an imaginary vocabulary for this acousmatic piece.
Our sound context is a refection of our times, and it's up to us to seize it and, like
modern alchemists, appropriate one of the last things that is free - noise - and transform
it into a work of art. Fortunately, it's one of the last things we have free access to.
Binaural format 24B/48Khz
(français)
« City Diaries » est une réfexion autour de nos vies citadines, un parcours imaginaire
quotidien qui nous invite à l'introspection. L'univers sonore qui nous entoure, à la fois
ressenti de manière unique par chacun d'entre nous, nous est pourtant commun, nous
l'avons en partage.
Chaque déambulation est singulière, chaque moment est unique.
C'est à nous de nous approprier ces situations afn de construire une cosmologie onirique
qui nous soit propre.
Envisager la puissance créative de ce qui nous entoure comme un outil de construction
intérieure, une poésie, est une réponse à nos vies matérialistes et peut nous aider à mieux
appréhender le monde moderne.
Fidèle à Gaston Bachelard, il s'agit ici de laisser libre cours à la rêverie et en même temps
donner toute son importance artistique au bruit de notre époque, concept essentiel
développé par Luigi Russolo.
City Diaries a été composé à partir de sons collectés de nuit dans ma ville (Chalon sur
Saône) qui ont donné naissance à un vocabulaire imaginaire permettant de construire
cette pièce acousmatique.
Notre contexte sonore est le refet de notre époque, à nous de nous en emparer pour, tels
des alchimistes modernes, s'approprier une des dernières choses qui soit gratuite -le
bruit- et le transformer en oeuvre artistique. C'est heureusement une des dernière chose
qui soit nous accessible librement.
Format binaural 24B/48Khz

8.Shadow's Game

Disturbance

Sunrise

ODDZ has been organizing events in the underground scene of Ramallah for more than ten years. He runs the 1st Palestinian electronic music festival called Exist. ODDZ sets are unpredictable and fascinate people every time.
Temp-Illusion is an Iranian experimental/electronic duo consisting of Shahin Entezami and Behrang Najafi, both natives of Tehran. Zabte Sote, a sister label of Opal Tapes, released a  live recording taken from their concert at SETxCTM.

Both sets for this show were recorded live this weekend in Tehran.

www.instagram.com/existfestival2019

www.instagram.com/3oddz
www.facebook.com/OODDZZZ/ 
www.soundcloud.com/odai-masri

www.instagram.com/temp_illusion
www.facebook.com/tempillusion
www.soundcloud.com/temp-illusion


Listen to Threads* at www.threadsradio.com

Exist w/ ODDZ & Temp-Illusion (Threads*PALESTINE) - 26-Feb-20

EXIST showcases the thriving counterculture of Palestine and beyond. This time Erorrist & Shasm recorded a Hybrid live session & a mix.

ERORRIST is an electronic project that is experimenting in drone, noise and heavy sounds that celebrate the beauty of the grotesque:
www.erorrist.bandcamp.com

SHAMS is an audio visual explorer, creating collages of sound and light waves out of a middle eastern ambience:
www.mediteranos.bandcamp.com/album/just-before-sunrise

Both Shams and Erorrist run the label MEDS:
www.soundcloud.com/mediteranos

Listen to Threads* at www.threadsradio.com

EXIST w/ Erorrist & Shams(Threads*PALESTINE)- 25-Mar-20

EXIST is back, straight outta Ramallah, Palestine.

howl:

Fed up with the conventional sounds, prejudices & hype-fueled sonic fanaticism of today's music, Turkey-based howl seeks harmony in seemingly contrasting musical ideas; takes her listeners on a dark, dynamic and densely layered aural journey with her DJ sets, meticulously crafted with a selection unbound by genre, tempo, gender, or whatsoever. She's the co-founder of the event series Digital Drugs, a resident of Istanbul's Pixie Underground, and holds a monthly residency on Noods Radio, Bristol.

www.soundcloud.com/h_owl
www.instagram.com/merveongen

shk:

Ahmed shk is a digger and record collector. Living in Istanbul, he started focusing on the underground music scene and managed to find his way to become a promoter. He is the founder of the collective, Root.

www.soundcloud.com/rootradiolive
www.instagram.com/rootmusicist
www.facebook.com/ROOTMUSICIST

www.instagram.com/existfestival2019

Listen to Threads* at www.threadsradio.com

Exist w/ howl & shk (Threads*PALESTINE) - 22-Apr-20

Exist showcases the thriving counterculture of Palestine and beyond.

Nidal aka Special NID is a founding member of Drowned By Locals (formerly Assembli) based in Amman. Along with the DBL crew he organises intimate small-scale events that aim to go beyond the expected. Nidal’s sound is a unique internal journey.

Lee Adams is an artist, curator, dj and owner of Khemia Records. He runs KAOS London where he djs under the name Choronzon. Over the past 16 years Choronzon has performed at hundreds of clubs, events and festivals across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East where he has shared stages with the likes of Orphx, Rrose, Silent Servant, Ancient Methods, Samuel Kerridge, Esplendor Geometrico, Broken English Club, Drew Mcdowall, Phase Fatale, JK Flesh and British Murder Boys. 

He has made guest appearances for the CTM Festival at Tresor (Berlin), Fasma Festival (Athens), Forte Festival (Portugal) (with Mia Zabelka and Kira O'Reilly), Exist Festival (Palestine), Antiworld at Brixton Academy, Temple, Astron Bar & Dark Sun (Athens) and Gegen at KitKat Club (Berlin). He recently curated The Boiler Room: Kaos London Edition and has created podcasts for New Brvtalism, Phormix, Mindless (Casablanca) and Odai Masri’s Virgo Series. 

He also curates the Kaos London residency on Rinse FM and the Kaos London Podcast series. Most recently he opened the Balenciaga after-show party at The Rex Club for Paris Fashion week.

ARTWORK: Lee Adams 

Exist Festival:

www.instagram.com/existfestival.ps
www.facebook.com/Existfestivalpalestine

Nidal:

www.instagram.com/nidtaha
www.soundcloud.com/nidal-taha
www.facebook.com/DrownedByLocals
www.instagram.com/drownedbylocals

Choronzon:

www.soundcloud.com/choronzonkaos
www.facebook.com/choronzonkaos
www.instagram.com/kaoslondon

Listen to Threads* at www.threadsradio.com

Exist w/ Nidal & Choronzon (Threads*PALESTINE) - 20-May-20

Exist showcases the thriving counterculture of Palestine and beyond. The 5th episode features new and unreleased ambient/experimental tracks by Asifeh and the 2nd hour consists of banging Bonime techno.

Asifeh is a Palestinian producer and rapper based between Vienna and Ramallah. He is the co-founder of the former Ramallah Underground collective, NOISE & BEATS and 1/3 of AIWA. 

Bonime is a DJ, producer and live performer interested in many different musical genres. He likes to think at his mind as a distorted tool producing glitches, which at the end create music.

Artwork: @itiest

Exist:

www.soundcloud.com/threadsradio/sets/exist-palestine
www.instagram.com/existfestival2019
www.facebook.com/Existfestivalpalestine

Asifeh:

www.soundcloud.com/stormtrap
www.instagram.com/asifeh/
www.facebook.com/aiwaberlin

Bonime:

www.soundcloud.com/bonime
www.facebook.com/bonimeofficial
www.instagram.com/bonime_official

Listen to Threads* at www.threadsradio.com

Exist w/ Asifeh & Bonime (Threads*PALESTINE) - 17-Jun-20

Connecting local communities across the world and empowering people to express themselves through music, discussion and art.

EXIST w/ Dirar Kalash & Skyla (Threads*Palestine) - 14-Jul-21

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