BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Detroit X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Detroit BEGIN:VEVENT UID:31551@arabamerica.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20230917T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20230917T200000 DTSTAMP:20230815T215514Z URL:https://www.arabamerica.com/events/omar-souleyman-and-kill-alters/ SUMMARY:Omar Souleyman and Kill Alters DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Artists\n\nFollowing his critically acclaim ed\, Four Tet-produced studio debut "Wenu Wenu\," its follow up "Bahdeni N ami\," and 2017 Mad Decent debut "To Syria\, With Love\, Syrian wedding si nger turned global dance icon Omar Souleyman announces his 4th studio al bum "Shlon" due out November 22nd via Mad Decent / Because Music. Listen t o lead single “Layle\,” out now and streaming everywhere.\n\nOn Shlon (Arabic for “how\,” or literally “which color”)\, Omar Souleyman p resents 6 new techno-meets-dabke songs of romance and love to the world — singing poetry of a woman’s lips as sweet as Hillah’s dates on “ Layle”\; an intriguing woman he watches from afar whose kiss would be wo rth 10 million other kisses on “Shlon”\; a lover ready to offer his be loved anything she wishes under the sun on “Shi Tridin” (“What Do Yo u Wish For?”)\; a man in admiration of a woman with green eyes and blond e hair on “Abou Zlilif” (“Her Face is Like The Moon”)\; a song abo ut love that will last forever on “Mawwal”\, a traditional — all sup erimposed on complex techno arrangements by Hasan Alo\, and based on the h i-speed Kurdish and Arabic dabke and baladi styles with the exception of “Mawwal” being presented in its traditionally slower pace.\n\nShlon fe atures double keyboard work from Hasan Alo\, a fellow native of the Hasaka region in Northeastern Syria who has recently been active in the vibrant nightlife scene of Dubai. Azad Salih\, a young Syrian man currently living in Mardin\, Turkey\, accompanies on saz\, with the lyrics and love poetry written on the spot during the album’s recording session by longtime Om ar collaborator Moussa Al Mardood-also currently based in Turkey.\n\nOmar Souleyman\, who has collaborated with Björk and Four Tet\, began his care er as a prolific wedding singer\, releasing nearly 500 live albums before civil war broke out in his native Syria in 2011. In 2013 released his debu t studio album Wenu Wenu via Ribbon/Domino\, which NPR called\, "... a jam so visceral\, thrilling and intense as to make the mysterious matter of e arthly borders seem hardly worth the time to contemplate." His 2015 sophom ore album Bahdeni Nami garnered widespread critical praise including The G uardian\, who proclaimed\, "It's so fast that the only appropriate way to engage with it is to wriggle your limbs. Melodies are both abrasive and eb ullient\, chattering endlessly like raucous birdsong\," and 2017’s To Sy ria\, With Love via Mad Decent placing Omar firmly in the canon of global electronic music.\n\nSouleyman has bolstered his growing status as a world and electronic music icon establishing an extensive international followi ng after touring widely and performing at major festivals including Glasto nbury\, Bonnaroo\, Pitchfork Paris and Roskilde. In 2013\, he performed at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Norway.\n\nOmar Souleyman has been touri ng tirelessly since the release of "To Syria\, With Love\," or in fact for as long as he can remember in the last 10 years. He has crossed the plane t — now seeming quite small — several times over and looks forward to meeting his fans everywhere to celebrate the release of Shlon.\n\n \;\ n\nNYC based band Kill Alters exist at the intersection of electronics i nfused rock\, digital hardcore\, freewheeling mutant noise experimentation \, and incidental found sound culled from bandleader and composer Bonnie B axter’s decades old family recordings. The incorporation of Baxter’s m other’s voice from the tapes in her personal archives serves as a centra l element in Kill Alters compositions\, imbuing their music with added lay ers of personality and emotional memory and weaving together a story of ea rly childhood nostalgia laced with catharsis and redemption.\n\nPrimary co mposer and producer Bonnie Baxter leads the band with her impassioned voca l performances\, pummeled drum machine beats \, and peals of chaotic synth esis. I’m addition to Kill Alters\, Bonnie Baxter is a member of the duo Prolaps alongside Matthew Stephenson from Machine Girl and has released s everal albums on Hausu Mountain. Nicos Kennedy serves as the project’s c o-producer/mixer &\; sound engineer. Baxter and Kennedy started the Kil l Alters project as an outlet to decontextualize the audio from the archiv ed tapes. The care and the vulnerability with which Kill Alters infuses th eir music with these archival recordings recasts the trauma and confusion documented within them as a source from which to draw power and achieve a new sense of clarity. Hisham Bharoocha (formerly of seminal of US projects Black Dice and Lightening Bolt and a solo artist under the Soft Circle mo niker ) provides his signature battering ram drum performances\, which col lide with electronic percussion elements to animate the band’s ballistic compositions both on record and in the context of their live shows.\n\nWh ile their music often surges with moments of all consuming textural disfig uration and overlapping beat architectures\, Kill Alters encapsulates the sum total of their clamor into songs structures that resemble something li ke mutated pop and punk music. Baxter’s vocal  performances veer on a d ime between sing-song melodies \, blistering shouts and tumbling rhythmic cadences with beat sculpture / synthesis funneled into fast - evolving tra cks that leap into earworm hooks and unpredictable structural upheavals. A s the beating heart of the band \, Hisham Bharoocha’s drum work fits bet ween busy snare runs and bruising tom fills \, escalating in climactic mom ents to the level of flesh and blood performances and full on drum and bas s workouts.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTags\n\n\n United States Events\n New York Events\n Things to do in New York\, NY\n New York Performances\n New Yo rk Music Performances\n #dancemusic\n #dabke\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.arabamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2 023/08/https___cdn.evbuc_.com_images_563561139_571047122053_1_original.jpe g CATEGORIES:Dance,Debka LOCATION:Pioneer Works\, 159 Pioneer st\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11231\, United St ates GEO:40.6792933;-74.012113 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=159 Pioneer st\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11231\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Pioneer Works:geo:4 0.6792933,-74.012113 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230312T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR