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...

Tunisian producer Deena Abdelwahed composes cosmopolitan club music. On her debut album Khonnar from 2018, she tried her hand at a fusion of traditional Arabic sounds with modern house and industrial beats. Jbal Rrsas is the name of her new work, which takes a big step further. Outdated dichotomies such as tradition and modernity have no meaning here. She intertwines tabla rhythms and booming 808 sounds into a brand-new footwork variation, devising EBM thrillers in which the “E” stands for “Egyptian.” On the dance floor, if nothing else, the world Deena Abdelwahed presents is boundless.