Deena Abdelwahed - Khonnar '2018

Tracks list

Deena Abdelwahed’s first album is shifting the epicenter of contemporary
electronic music south: “Khonnar“ will be released on November 16,
2018 by InFiné. 

Pronounced “Ronnar“ (an essential detail so as to avoid facile
misinterpretation by French- speakers) it is a term that makes the most of
Tunisia’s cultural and linguistic spectrum. It evokes the dark, shameful
and disturbing side of things, the one we usually seek to hide, but which Deena
instead sticks our noses in with her debut. It is a testament to Deena’s
coming into her own as a world citizen, and as an artist. A self-construction
made of frustrations and constraints, borne of retrograde mindsets, which are
not the prerogative of either the East or the West, and which she tirelessly
strives to expose and break. 

Throughout the 45 minutes of “Khonnar“, Deena breaks down the codes
of bass, techno and experimental music, and writes the manifesto for a
generation that does not seek to please or to conform, taking back control of
its identity – with all the attendant losses and chaos. A new creative
world order is taking shape, a new tilting point between north and south, the
response of a connected and liberated youth who takes the control of the new
decolonization. 

Mask and photography by London based artist Judas Companion, who’s work
is about transformation of human identity. She makes masks and masked portraits
to create different layers of the human being. 

Tracklist:
01. Deena Abdelwahed - Saratan
02. Deena Abdelwahed - Ababab
03. Deena Abdelwahed - Tawa
04. Deena Abdelwahed - Fdhiha
05. Deena Abdelwahed - Ken Skett...
06. Deena Abdelwahed - Al Hobb Al Mouharreb
07. Deena Abdelwahed - 5/5
08. Deena Abdelwahed - A Scream in the Consciousness
09. Deena Abdelwahed - Rabbouni

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