Music composed, arranged, and produced by YUNIS

Youcef Bouzidi - Bass
Dhir Mody - Drums
Chris Williams - Trumpet
Yunis - Electronics, Keys

Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Chris Botta at Marigny Studios in New Orleans, Louisiana

Produced by OneBeat, and Found Sound Nation
Photo by Alexia Webster

A Night In New Orleans ليلة في نيو أورليانز

I always dream of
strange worlds with
sound qualities that I
cannot understand
every time, but I
always chase them

Yesterday, I spent the
night in a blue
temple, this is what I
dreamed about
last night

And this is
what I heard

or so I think!

امبارح سهرت في معبد لونه أزرق

Exiting The Land of Gold (OST)
Music By: Yunis

Musicians:
Oud: Mohamed abdallah
Ney: Yunis
Percussions: Moamen Eltouny,
Mohamed Gamal

Sound Engineering, Mixing, Mastering: Omar Boflot
Recorded At: Empire Studios

Exiting The Land of Gold - Track 07

Exiting The Land of Gold - Track 02

Exiting The Land of Gold - Track 01

Composed, Arranged, Performed and Produced by YUNIS
Mixed, and Mastered by VII
Artwork by Fathi Hawas

Released November 15, 2019

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Guest Musicians:

Muhammed Gouda (Accordion)

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YUNIS (b. 1994 - Kafr El-Dauwar) is an Egyptian Ney/Keyboard/Electronics player, Music Producer, and music researcher. He has composed the soundtracks of some short films and documentaries. He is also a co-founder of Kafr El-Dauwar Records, an independent digital record label interested in contemporary and experimental music, founded by a group of young artists with the aim of creating a musical movement in the city, by supporting a group of artists to start their music from Kafr El-Dauwar with the potential of going with the music to the farthest point it could arrive.

In his music, YUNIS seeks inspirations from the popular Egyptian folkloric heritage, which boasts many instruments, tools, and musical styles. He then reads and analyzes the musical legacy and presents it with the forms of his contemporary time. This is what is clearly shown in his first solo album, “The Blue Djinn dance", which released on 15 November via Kafr El-Dauwar Records.

With multiple influences of electronic music and contemporary Egyptian folk/wedding music, YUNIS tries through six original tracks to explore in the creative spaces that afforded by the various shapes of the music of these popular weddings.

For the album artwork, YUNIS collaborated with Egyptian visual artist Fathi Hawas, whose visual practices are about experimenting with various photographing tools that afford spaces of creating images that support the medium with visual readings that contain a harmony examines the vocabularies of time, place and subjects that Fathi study and express. Fathi has used a random family camera to explore the local cultural elements that make up our public perception of the popular weddings, to create a piece of visual music by framing that popular element in a visual form that suits what YUNIS presents.

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Molid Al-Sayieda مولد السيدة

Asfour Al-Kabier عصفور الكبير

Al-Ard Al-Souda الأرض السودا

Raqset Al-Jid'an رقصة الجدعان

Mizmar Al-Faqier مزمار الفقير

The Blue Djinn الجن الأزرق

YUNIS seeks inspirations from the popular Egyptian folkloric heritage, which boasts many instruments, tools, and musical styles. He then reads and analyzes the musical legacy and presents it with the forms of his contemporary time. This is what is clearly shown in his first solo album, “The Blue Djinn dance", which released on 15 November via Kafr El-Dauwar Records.

With multiple influences of electronic music and contemporary Egyptian folk/wedding music, YUNIS tries through six original tracks to explore in the creative spaces afforded by the various shapes of the music of these popular weddings.

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Photo Credit: Fathi Hawas

Radyoon: YUNIS - The Blue Djinn Dance [Live Set] - 27th March 2020

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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