YUNIS (b. 1994 - Kafr El-Dauwar) is an Egyptian experimental composer, performer, and synth player, he is based between the western Delta province of Kafr El-Dauwar and Paris. He believes deeply in the sacredness of the traditional musical forms—not as stagnant, historical artifacts needing to be revived, but rather as living, evolving, artistic endeavors that can be endlessly disassembled and reconstructed. With this genre-bending at the root of his artistic method, YUNIS draws inspiration from various musical genres such as Shaa’bi music, Zār, Mouled, and Takhmir.

As a co-founder of Kafr El-Dauwar Records (described by Scene Noise as “A truly eclectic group… who can rightly claim to be the first source of a truly authentic and original sound since the emergence of mahraganat”), YUNIS produced a collaborative record with Ibrahim X, Ya Khal. In collaboration with Suliman; the label’s art director, Ya Khal brought Egyptian-style wedding emceeing to the studio for the first time. Later on, he brought his vision to life in his debut solo album The Blue Djinn Dance under the same label. In his latest, Mulid El-Magnoun, Yunis worked on distilling the “mulid” and its varied manifestations in Egyptian folklore. He closely examined the space between local mulid and its Sufi form, with its rhythmic patterns and instrumentation, and as a genre with gritty aesthetics originating from folk weddings.

YUNIS has toured extensively across Europe and has been artist-in-residence at the Kampala, Uganda-based Nyege Nyege label and worked alongside producers such as Chrisman, Dogo, and Jay Mitta. At Cité Internationale des Arts, in Paris, France, he’s been developing a musical and dance creation in collaboration with four French dancers, titled Orouj; Its themes intersect between spiritual rituals, religious myths, love, and desire (release tour scheduled for the first half of next year).

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Afterlife: an odyssey through the realm of consciousness.

From the start, Son Lux has operated as something akin to a sonic test kitchen. The Academy Award® and BAFTA-nominated band strives to question deeply held assumptions about how music is made and reconstruct it from a molecular level. What began as a solo project for founder Ryan Lott expanded in 2014, thanks to a kinship with Ian Chang and Rafiq Bhatia too strong to ignore. The trio strengthened their chemistry and honed their collective intuition while creating, releasing, and touring six recordings, including Brighter Wounds (2018) and triple album Tomorrows (2021). The result is a carefully cultivated musical language rooted in curiosity and balancing opposites that largely eschews genre and structural conventions. And yet, the band remains audibly indebted to iconoclastic artists in soul, hip-hop, and experimental improvisation who themselves carved new paths forward. 

Distilling these varied influences, Son Lux searches for equilibrium of raw emotional intimacy and meticulous electronic constructions. Son Lux scored A24’s Best Picture winner Everything Everywhere All at Once for which they were nominated for two Academy Awards and a BAFTA. The full score album features new collaborations with Mitski, David Byrne, Randy Newman, and Moses Sumney, among others.

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