KahruMusiqa, by Badiâa Bouhrizi

KahruMusiqa

by Badiâa Bouhrizi

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1.	(بلادي) Bledi 03:02	buy track
2.	(إلى سلمى) Ila Selma 04:33	buy track
3.	(غناء رأسمالي) Capitalist Chant 03:26	buy track
4.	(داب تركي) Dub à La Turque 04:42	buy track
5.	(كما قال أبي) Kema 9ala Abi 05:32	buy track
6.	(ترنسريمال) Transrimel 04:30	buy track
7.	(في المدينة الهرمة) Fil Madinati Al Harima 09:48	buy track
8.	(بوكيمون) Pokemon 03:15	buy track
9.	(لاباس) Labess 02:42	buy track
10.	(جبانة) Jabena 03:46	buy track
11.	( حدود التحكم) The Limits of Control 03:29	buy track
12.	(أوم) UM 01:13	buy track

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KahruMusiqa is a musical retrospective by Tunisian singer and composer Badiâa Bouhrizi AKA Neysatu. She is known as the author behind the protest songs that became the anthems of the Tunisian revolution.

KahruMusiqa means electronic music, but is never used as such in Arabic to name the genre. The record is a collection of sonic experimentations that started when she first got her hands on music production softwares in the 2000s. The tracks are based around poems in classical Arabic language or Tunisian dialect written by Badiâa herself or female poets she admires, such as Palestinian authors Fadwa Tuqan or Salma Al Jayusi, or the Tunisian poet Noureddine Werghi. Most of the vocal work are improvisations recorded with a computer microphone. A take on the classic Turkish folk song Muhabbat is almost a modern harmonic rewriting, using only classical guitar, vocals and delays.

KahruMusiqa’s themes are in line with Badiâa Bouhrizi ideological trajectory. She is a queer woman in the moving sands of Tunesia in the song Transrimel. She also questions the political contract that led to Balfour and the displacement of millions of Palestinians in 1948, describing a journey between London and Nablus, in Fil Madinatil harima (“In The Old City").

This lo-fi bedroom album also displays several songs that have become classics of the Arab underground milieu like Ila Selma, and is the first ever record Badiâa Bouhrizi was willing to release.

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released May 26, 2023

* Produced and performed by Badiâa Bouhrizi
* Recorded in Tunis/ Paris/London/ Montréal between 2004 and 2011
* Mastered by Josh Stevenson at Otic Sound (Canada)
* Photo by Callum Redfern
* Artwork by Bachir Tayachi

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