BBIMF 2017 Artistic Program
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GRAND FACTORY

YASMINE HAMDAN
ياسمين حمدان
Lebanon
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HAT
حات
Morocco
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KED

AMAL WAQAR
أمل وقّار
Oman
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Lynn Adib Quartet
رباعي لين أديب
Syria
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RICHARD DAWSON
ريتشارد دوسن
UK
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KED

KID FOURTEEN
كيد فورتين
Lebanon
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PANSTARRS
بانستارز
Egypt
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POREST
بورست
Iraq / USA
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KED

DINA EL WEDIDI
دينا الوديدي
Egypt
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THE BROTHER MOVES ON
ذو براذر موفز أون
South Africa
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YASMINE HAMDAN
ياسمين حمدان
Thursday 7 December 2017 @ 8:30PM | GRAND FACTORY
الخميس 7 كانون الأول / ديسمبر 2017 – 8:30 مساءً | غراند فاكتوري
Lebanese singer-songwriter Yasmine Hamdan first emerged onto the music scene with Soapkills, the pioneering indie electronic band she founded along with Zeid Hamdan in Beirut in the late ’90s. The duo released two rare EPs after forming in 1997 before their first album, Bater, in 2001. After two more albums, Cheftak (2002) and Enta Fen (2005), the group split, with Yasmine Hamdan relocating to France. Yasmine then teamed up with Madonna’s producer Mirwais, and under the Y.A.S. moniker, recorded the album Arabology, released in 2009 by Universal France. In 2012, Yasmine joined forces with Nouvelle Vague’s Marc Collin to produce her debut solo album, Ya Nass which received wide critical acclaim across Europe, North America and the Arab region. Her unique vision is fully realised in her latest album Al Jamilat, which she jointly produced with UK producers Luke Smith (Foals, Depeche Mode, Lily Allen) and Leo Abrahams (Brian Eno, Carl Barât) and that was released by Brussels-based label Crammed Discs.
HAT
حات
Thursday 7 December 2017 @ 10:30PM | GRAND FACTORY
الخميس 7 كانون الأول / ديسمبر 2017 – 10:30 مساءً | غراند فاكتوري
HAT is Hatim Belyamani, the Moroccan-American musician and multi-media artist behind the remix culture project, a non-profit artist collective creating links between global traditional musics and digital remix art, by travelling to and identifying a country’s various musical traditions and then recording, filming, producing and remixing them. The project began in Hatim’s native Morocco and later expanded to other countries. Hatim has performed his live video remixes at Lincoln Center NY and festivals in Morocco and Europe. The show during BBIMF2017 will be his first in the region.
AMAL WAQAR
أمل وقّار
Friday 8 December 2017 @8:30PM | KED
الجمعة 8 كانون الأول / ديسمبر 2017 – 8:30 مساءً | كاد
Amal Waqar is a dynamic young Omani/American oud player, composer, producer, and activist. Raised in Muscat, Oman, Amal first engaged with music at fifteen when she began playing oud. Soon, she was composing works for traditional and non-traditional ensembles. At seventeen, making national headlines as the first woman and youngest oud player to perform a debut recital, Amal attracted audiences from across Muscat’s social, cultural, and economic circles. Amal currently divides her time between the United States, where she studies with oud master Simon Shaheen at Berklee College of Music in Boston, and Oman.
Lynn Adib Quartet
لين أديب
Friday 8 December 2017 @10:00PM | KED
الجمعة 8 كانون الأول / ديسمبر 2017 – 10:00 مساءً | كاد
Lynn Adib is a Syrian singer born in Damascus, where she was initiated at a young age to Byzantine chanting within the “Choir of Joy” of Our Lady of Damascus church. While learning the flute at the National Conservatory of Damascus, she discovers jazz and gets seduced by its freedom and complexity. Thus begins for Lynn a musical journey bringing together traditional Arabic music (Maqâm), the religious songs of ancient Syria, and jazz. In 2009, Lynn moves to Paris where she enrolls at the American School of Modern Music, before pursuing studies in vocal jazz at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional (CRR) in Paris. That is where she meets the musicians with whom she will create her quartet, working on original compositions where jazz, Arabic singing, contemporary music and traditional sacred and profane Syrian music blend together. Lynn Adib’s voice and career embodies this new generation of musicians from the Middle East, enamored of that jazz-like freedom, and of creating beyond all cultural and stylistic boundaries. Lynn Adib is currently preparing her first album with the Quartet to be released in 2018.
RICHARD DAWSON
ريتشارد دوسن
Friday 8 December 2017 @11:00PM | KED
الجمعة 8 كانون الأول / ديسمبر 2017 – 11:00 مساءً | كاد
Richard Dawson is a skewed troubadour at once charming and abrasive. His shambolically virtuosic guitar playing stumbles from music-hall tune-smithery to spidery swatches of noise-colour, swathed in amp static and teetering on the edge of feedback. His songs are both chucklesome and tragic, rooted in a febrile imagination that references worlds held dear and worlds unknown. Both live and on record Dawson is a barrage of musical expression and personality, and the visceral power of his voice against the lurching modality of his guitar lines conjure false memories of Tim Buckley and Richard Young’s duetting with Sir Richard Bishop and Zoot Horn Rollo.
KID FOURTEEN
كيد فورتين
Saturday 9 December 2017 @8:30PM | KED
السبت 9 كانون الأول / ديسمبر 2017 – 8:30 مساءً | كاد
Khodor Ellaik is a Lebanese musician currently working under the solo moniker Kid Fourteen. Between 2010 and 2014, Ellaik was the frontman of punk band Beirut Scum Society and short-lived post-punk/no-wave outfit Friendly Faces. Following these experiences, Ellaik adopted a solo aesthetic blending punk sensibilities and noise-pop elements. His debut album “Dream Kids Never Sleep” was released in 2016. Khodor’s most recent project is The Cripple, an electronic/free jazz duo with Alex Zhang Hungtai (ex Dirty Beaches/Last Lizard).
أطلق ألبومه الأول “أبناء الأحلام لا ينامون أبداً” عام 2016. أحدث مشروع لخضر هو “الأعرج”، وهو عمل ثنائي يجمعه مع ألكس جانغ هنغتاي (سابقًا Dirty Beaches/Last Lizard).
PANSTARRS
بانستارز
Saturday 9 December 2017 @10:00PM | KED
السبت 9 كانون الأول / ديسمبر 2017 – 10:00 مساءً | كاد
PanSTARRS began midway through 2012 when Youssef Abouzeid started recording music in his bedroom. He released two EPs and one LP as solo productions, and a new album with the band released in 2017. After Youssef’s debut release he started performing live and was joined by Hazem El-Shamy (drums) and Ismail Arafa (bass). The trio went on to write new material in the studio, redefining PanSTARRS as a rock’n’roll band rather than just a bedroom project. Later Ismail and Hazem left the band and were replaced by long time collaborator Nader Ahmed (bass) and Karim El-Ghazoly (drums). PanSTARRS’ sound draws from post-punk, electronic music and krautrock to express a balanced sense of organized chaos within intermittent love melodies.
POREST
بورست
Saturday 9 December 2017 @11:00PM | KED
السبت 9 كانون الأول / ديسمبر 2017 – 11:00 مساءً | كاد
Across decades, Porest (aka Mark Gergis) has issued a trail of confounding agitprop sound art, post-globalised hate-pop, diabolical radio dramas and carefully re-arranged realities on multiple labels. His blatant embezzlement of human syntax and cultural misunderstanding broadcasts vital mixed messages. Since 2003, with the Sublime Frequencies label, an ethnographic music and film collective out of Seattle – and more recently with his own label, Sham Palace – Mark has shared decades of research of scores of archived international music, film footage and sound recordings from the Middle East, South East Asia and elsewhere.
DINA EL WEDIDI
دينا الوديدي
Sunday 10 December 2017 @8:30PM | KED
الأحد 10 كانون الأول / ديسمبر 2017 – 8:30 مساءً | كاد
With her powerful, nuanced voice and authentic style, Egyptian singer and composer Dina El Wedidi has spent the past six years carving out her place in the Egyptian music scene. While studying oriental languages at the University of Cairo, Dina joined El Warsha Theatre Troupe, exploring Egyptian folklore and performing in such unlikely places as a Cairo prison. In 2011, she formed her own band and became one of the first members of the Nile Project, a project in collaboration with musicians from all of the Nile Countries, with touring through East Africa and the US. In 2012, Dina became a Rolex Program award winner mentored by legendary Brazilian songwriter Gilberto Gil. In 2013, they performed together at the Cairo Jazz Festival, and he advised her on her debut album Turning Back (Tedawar W’Tergaa), guest performing on the song “El Leil”. Dina also performed at TEDGlobal in Scotland, participated in workshops with Grammy award winner Fathy Salama, Kamilya Jubran, and has worked with the Mazaher Ensemble in Cairo. She has performed throughout the Arab region and Europe.
THE BROTHER MOVES ON
ذو براذر موفز أون
Sunday 10 December 2017 @10:00PM | KED
الأحد 10 كانون الأول / ديسمبر 2017 – 10:00 مساءً | كاد
Having completed three EPs (The Golden Wake + ETA + Black Tax) and one full length album (A New Myth) the collective are the first band to get signed as performance artists by a commercial gallery in South Africa, namely the Goodman Gallery. The name The Brother Moves On is a grammatical misconfiguration of The Brother Mouzone, a fictional character in the American television drama series The Wire. The band are trailblazers being the first band to complete the Southern African touring circuit named Igoda in their DIY fashion in 2014. This push has seen them grace stages in Germany opening for William Kentridge, France opening for Saul Williams, Norway opening for Hugh Masekela and being regulars in the London underground scene sharing stages with Yusef Kamaal, Shabaka Hutchings and United Vibrations.