Deena Abdelwahed (AV Live)

After her beginnings in a jazz band and multiple interventions in the electronic scene in Tunis, the Tunisian producer and DJ moved to France in 2016. She signed on the Parisian label InFiné and released two EPs, Klabb (2017) and Dhakar (2020) and an album entitled Khonnar (2018), acclaimed by several international media such as Pitchfork and The Guardian. 

Her musical explorations are hopeful attempts to reclaim the elements that make up the diversity of Arabic music, drawing inspiration from electronic dance music influenced by Club music and the current avant-garde and experimental scene. She co-produced the track an itch that appears on Fever Ray's latest album, Plunge and has produced several remixes of Bachar Mar-Khalifé, Flore, Domenico Torti and Afrika Bambaataa, among others. She has also collaborated with the dance community, asked by Alexandre Roccoli to write and perform the music for Weaver in 2017. 

In Live set or DJ set, Deena Abdelwahed has performed on stage in several festivals and events of renown such as Sonar Festival twice, Les Dunes Electroniques in Tunisia, CTM Festival in Berlin, Dekmantel in Amsterdam, Dour festival or Mutek Festival in Mexico City and clubs such as Concrete and Dehors Brut in Paris, the Berghain in Berlin and Mutabor in Moscow, among others...

Kosmopolitische Klubmusik komponiert die tunesische Produzentin Deena Abdelwahed. Auf ihrem Debütalbum Khonnar versuchte sie sich 2018 an einer Fusion traditioneller arabischer Klänge mit modernen House- und Industrial-Beats. Jbal Rrsas heißt ihr neues Werk, auf diesem geht sie einen großen Schritt weiter. Überkommene Gegensätze wie Tradition und Moderne besitzen hier keine Bedeutung mehr. Sie verflicht Tabla-Rhythmen mit 808 Sounds zu einer ganz neuen Footwork-Variante, sie komponiert EBM-Knaller, in denen das „E“ für Egyptian steht. Wenigstens auf dem Dancefloor führt uns Deena Abdelwahed in eine grenzenlos gewordene Welt.