Fatima Al Qadiri - Medieval Femme

Genre: AMBIENT / NEW AGE / ELECTRONIC 

Format: 1LP Edition
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Item Notes

1LP Edition
Release Date:
9/7/2021
Label: Hyperdub

Description

Inspired by the classical poems of Arab women, Medieval Femme invokes a daydream through the metaphor of an Islamic garden, at the border between depression and desire, where the present temporarily dissolves, leaving only past and future.

Mixing neon drones and the faint outlines of Arabesque melody, Medieval Femme reveals a fully-realized, dreamlike setting, shaded with color and subtle friction. Conveying a thematic state of melancholic longing, Fatima seeks to transport the listener to a place of reverie and desolation, to rejoice in celestial sorrow.

Medieval Femme takes instrumentation from music of the Middle Ages, recast in a futuristic setting; soft-synth lutes, organs and pipes reverberate in space while gauzy pulses ripple in response. Fatima's vocals of repeated, mantra-like phrases are sometimes pitched and altered, drawing out increasingly intense peaks, angelic choruses and yearning incantations.

Tracklisting

1 Medieval Femme
2 A Certain Concubine
3 Sheba
4 Vanity
5 Stolen Kiss of a Succubus
6 Golden
7 Qasmuna (Dreaming)
8 Malaak
9 Tasakuba
10 Zandaq 

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