“Information is not knowledge.
Knowledge is not wisdom.
Wisdom is not truth.
Truth is not beauty.
Beauty is not love.
Love is not music.
Music is THE BEST.” 
Frank Zappa

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.

The album 'Fire', released 27 August on Ninja Tune: https://thebug.lnk.to/fireSo

represents a fiction character, a music persona, a dreamer composing the stories of a non -existing place…
linktr.ee/islandman

A portable elephant  may be utilized in any situation where the use of a full scale elephant would be impractical.

It's also a free-form sound producing entity, powered by guitar, small analogue synth, mixer, effect pedals, cables, and stuff.

At the helm:
<a href="https://soundcloud.com/t-f-s-l">T.F.S.L.</a>
<a href="https://soundcloud.com/polygon-ring">Polygon Ring</a>

K-Kaloyan Ivanov (Portable Elephant, T.F.S.L.) - guitar
▲-Angel Draganov (Portable Elephgant, Polygon Ring) -bass
P-Plamen Petkov (ex-Rockada) - drums

След Дъжд Качулка - Тих /MarchRemix 2016/ Official Video
https://youtu.be/PddDNkwoEtE
Saturated Pixels - Space Caravan (live at DNA/ДНК)
https://youtu.be/Py6K1Mgldow

“Promotexte von Bands* zu lesen ist ein Albtraum, aber selbst welche zu schreiben muss der blanke Horror sein: Experimentalität, Avantgarde, Ästhetik, die dritte Person und ihre betont undefinierte Einzigartigkeit. Dann: Autentizität, Tiefe, Groove, melodiöse Härte, Leidenschaft, Liebe, Abenteuer und so weiter. Athmosphärisches Diesdas, nicht zu vergessen. Und, werte Freund*innen, dennoch auf eine ganz nie dagewesen spezielle Art und Weise "irgendwie", bitte sehr! 
(...) Kommt schon. Ich treffe euch auch gern, ohne euch in solchem Quatsch ersaufen lassen zu müssen.

*Pardon. Artists.”

(Dan Gyle)

Sound duo from the forgotten land of Bulgaria
Yoana Robova & Peter Parmakov

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