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El-Iqaa
12+ albums
trip-hopmiddle eastarabicBeirutchillout
about
About: El Iqaa (Arabic for provider of the beat) is an independent multimedia artist creating sample based sound collages exploring the musical history of his roots – based somewhere within the triangulated time-space of Detroit / New York / Beirut. His latest release - circulate (EP) نشر – is a collection of tracks created within the past year in dialogue with various video/photographic/installation art projects.These research projects, and the musical asides they inspire, all carry overarching themes which the artist is continually struggling to define; issues of language and translation (specifically around the languages of Arabic, English, Music and Love), memory, movement, electricity (power) and appropriation. circulate (EP) نشر explores these issues through quotes and cuts from specific definitive samples (ranging from Abdel Halim Hafez to Pierre Boulez, Amiri Baraka to Trisha Donnelly + much more). These splices are mixed with original recorded sounds to create a dialogue between the past and the future, in hopes of trying to make some sense of the present. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
