{"title":"Fatima Al Qadiri","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSenegal-born, Kuwait-raised composer and conceptual artist, Fatima Al Qadiri was born in 1981 in Dakar. Currently based in Berlin, she has gained recognition for her unique blend of electronic music and visual art. Drawing inspiration from her multicultural background, Al Qadiri's work explores themes of identity, globalization, and the intersection of technology and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInfluenced by artists such as *Laurel Halo*, *Hype Williams*, and *Klein*, Al Qadiri's music combines experimental soundscapes with intricate beats to create a captivating sonic experience. Her compositions often feature haunting melodies juxtaposed with glitchy textures, resulting in a sound that is both ethereal and gritty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith an extensive discography spanning multiple genres including ambient, grime, and techno, Al Qadiri has collaborated with notable performers like *Doon Kanda* and *Inga Copeland*. Her innovative approach to music production has earned her critical acclaim within the electronic music community.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"asiatisch","title":"Asiatisch","description":"\u003cp\u003eFatima Al Qadiri is a multidisciplinary artist and musician from Kuwait. In just a few years, she has quickly built a reputation as a conceptual artist, exploring themes informed both by her own background and global pop culture, through a number of highly acclaimed EPs, multimedia projects and writings.  Fatima's debut album is called 'Asiatisch', and as the track titles suggest, the record provides a simulated road trip through an imagined China. Musically, the album is an homage to that quietly influential sub-strain of grime, often loosely termed 'sinogrime' due to its preoccupation with Asian motifs and melodies, pioneered by the likes of Wiley and Jammer at the beginning of the 2000s in East London.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hyperdub","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50492050506059,"sku":"374790","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50492052865355,"sku":"374789","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/f10c7a48-712e-4cf7-9639-50be1e6a491c_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727690619"},{"product_id":"brute-1","title":"Brute","description":"\u003cp\u003eFatima Al Qadiri returns to Hyperdub for her 2nd album 'Brute'. Made from the perspective of her transnational experience, her new record explores the theme of authority, the relationship between police, citizens and protest worldwide, particularly of her adopted home in the United States. Musically, Brute teeters between rage and despair, manifesting in restrained percussion, sampled and processed recordings of urban protest, and the signature minor progressions that distinguish Al Qadiri's body of work. Reflecting on the carceral state (Oubliette), the militarization of police (Endzone, Curfew), the fragile boundaries between defence and the deadly use of force (Battery, 10-34), and the relentless violation of the dignity of protesters and activists (Breach, Blows, Fragmentation), the record is a sombre tribute to lost life and agency. The album art is a detail of the sculpture Po-Po (2015) by Josh Kline, heavily altered by art director Babak Radboy. Reimagining a popular children's show character as a militarized SWAT officer with implanted surveillance technology, Radboy subjects Po-Po to extreme image processing, situating the installation photo as a still from a fictitious blockbuster. As a tribute to those on the front lines of protest and a condemnation of neoliberal fascism, Brute provides a chilling sonic backdrop to a world of normalised brutality, a painful illumination of the facade of democracy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hyperdub","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50494134092107,"sku":"398430","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/b63c7266-2d84-4803-b9ba-088c51e7c561_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727703637"},{"product_id":"medieval-femma","title":"Medieval Femma","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMedieval Femme\u003c\/i\u003e, Fatima Al Qadiri’s new ten track suite inspired by the classical poems of Arab women, 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, \u003ci\u003eMedieval Femme\u003c\/i\u003e reveals a fully-realised, dreamlike setting, shaded with colour and subtle friction. Conveying a thematic state of melancholic longing, Fatima seeks to transport the listener to a place of reverie and desolation, to question the line between two seemingly opposite states and 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. On ‘Tasakuba’, Kaltham Jassim’s recitation of a couplet from the 7th century poet Al-Khansa', the sorrow of her words are given a turbulent, hallucinatory setting, before the album resolves on the final song, the limpid, airy ‘Zandaq’.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hyperdub","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50501283938635,"sku":"1118305","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50501281612107,"sku":"1118304","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/2e4b9dfd-8697-47d3-b837-6eedab89b64b_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727783152"},{"product_id":"gumar","title":"Gumar","description":"\u003cp\u003eBuilding on the themes of her most recent album, ‘Medieval Femme’, Fatima Al Qadiri’s newest release sees her pairing up with fellow Kuwaiti vocalist Gumar. The EP - also titled \u003ci\u003eGumar\u003c\/i\u003e, Arabic for \"moon\" - is an homage to a style of lamentation singing that both Fatima and Gumar grew up with and were heavily influenced by, and for which the latter received formal training as a teenager. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn these four short songs, Fatima provides a minimal counterpoint to Gumar's elegant vocals, a coalescence that powerfully and sympathetically complements and extends with cosmic, almost elemental depth. Serious and mournful in tone, the record ruminates on the subject of unrequited love, arguably the most common theme in Arabic music past and present. The cover is an original artwork by Kuwaiti artist Khalid al Gharaballi, Fatima's bestie and long-time collaborator.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hyperdub","offers":[{"title":"10\"","offer_id":50522028081483,"sku":"2009310","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Fatima_al_Qadiri__Gumar_HDB145_63872d88_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727998026"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/collections\/test_116bd1d9_thumbnail_4096_6abc630f-4807-45af-8333-069789b85ae7.jpg?v=1727690587","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/collections\/fatima-al-qadiri.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}