Diaspora Radio: Abadir & Hogir / Karima el Fillali / DJ Shahmaran

For the Friday night of Amsterdam Dance Event, The Rest is Noise and Bimhuis present a special collaboration with Diaspora Radio: a nightly program that explores the boundaries between tradition and experimentation in electronic music; between dance floor and concert hall. 

Abadir & Hogir
Abadir en Hogir fuse traditional percussion and futuristic electronic music in an unprecedented way. With his virtuosity on percussion instruments, Hogir, born in Tatvan (Turkey) brings a wealth of cultural influences and rhythmic diversity. Abadir, a Berlin-based producer from Cairo, adds experimental electronics inspired by memories of religious rituals and cultural artefacts. His most recent album Ison, released on the label SVBKVLT, reinterprets his childhood memories of Coptic, Syrian, Maronite, Greek Orthodox and Catholic services and choirs. Together, they create an immersive experience filled with traditional and futuristic sounds. An intense, almost surreal musical journey.

Karima el Fillali
Karima el Fillali (b. 1987) is a Dutch-Morrocan singer and songwriter known for her enchanting voice and deeply moving live performances. El Fillali gives traditional Arabic music a 21st-century update. She uses ancient poetry by Sufi mystics such as Mansur al-Hallaj and Ibn Arabi, about love, light and darkness, joy and sorrow. At the same time, her music is heavily influenced by Western classical music, hip-hop and art-pop. For her ADE performance, she will dive into the music of the night together with Stijn van Beeck's spatial electronics, Jamil al Asadi's Qanun and Marcos Baggiani's drums and percussion.

DJ Shahmaran
Drawing inspiration from the Kurdish tale of Shahmaran, a half-snake, half-woman with an uncompromising spirit, Rotterdam-based DJ Shahmaran fearlessly brings together diverse strands of bass-driven and leftfield music to soundtrack narratives of escape and hope.

Diaspora Radio
Diaspora Radio, started as a radio show at Echobox Radio, has evolved into a platform where makers and creatives share their stories of migration, biculturalism, identity and makerhood. What began as a venue for voices from the SWANA (Southwest Asia and North Africa) diaspora has now grown into a platform that also builds bridges to other cultures and experiences.