Yunis//Kafé Hærverk

Freefalling into the labyrinthine textures of the unconscious, sipping and sampling at the founts of psychic sounds at the center of the world’s tale, the fields of reed beneath the Afro groove waves that Yunis, the Egyptian experimental artist, has been riding since a formative residency in Uganda a few years back, what the haunted caravanserai between wakingness and nothingness feels like on vinyl, limbs loose, heart flying in a seeker’s abandon in a mystic’s dream, Ninety Nine Eyes, released early next year by Amman based record label, Drowned by Locals, casts its instrumental shadows into the background hum of being, a stranded jinn yearning in loops in the endless black, an all-too-human prayer out of the hidden silence upon every lovers’ lane, as the love and the lover and the beloved and the loving sway to the void and back one in the many, and the many are drunk in a celestial synth-drenched carnival.


Yunis 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. He has toured extensively across Europe and played in a number of the most important venues and music festivals like Le Guess Who? Festival in Utrecht, and Centre Pompidou in Paris. 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.

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