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01. Deena Abdelwahed - Saratan
02. Deena Abdelwahed - Ababab
03. Deena Abdelwahed - Tawa
04. Deena Abdelwahed - Fdhiha
05. Deena Abdelwahed - Ken Skett...
06. Deena Abdelwahed - Al Hobb Al Mouharreb
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08. Deena Abdelwahed - A Scream In The Consciousness
09. Deena Abdelwahed - Rabbouni
ARTIST
TITLE
Khonnar (2023 Repress)
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
IF 1048LP IF 1048LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
8/18/2023

Deena Abdelwahed's first album is shifting the epicenter of contemporary electronic music south. Khonnar, pronounced "Ronnar" (an essential detail so as to avoid facile misinterpretation by French-speakers) it is a term that makes the most of Tunisia's cultural and linguistic spectrum. It evokes the dark, shameful and disturbing side of things, the one we usually seek to hide, but which Deena instead sticks our noses in with her debut. It is a testament to Deena's coming into her own as a world citizen, and as an artist. A self-construction made of frustrations and constraints, borne of retrograde mindsets, which are not the prerogative of either the East or the West, and which she tirelessly strives to expose and break. Throughout the 45 minutes of Khonnar, Deena breaks down the codes of bass, techno and experimental music, and writes the manifesto for a generation that does not seek to please or to conform, taking back control of its identity -- with all the attendant losses and chaos. A new creative world order is taking shape, a new tilting point between north and south, the response of a connected and liberated youth who takes the control of the new decolonization.