Peace Carnival by Use Knife
In an inspiring collaboration uniting artists from different corners of Europe and the Middle East, Palestine's Muqata'a, French-Irish Zoë McPherson, and Lebanon's Rabih Beaini have merged their creative forces to remix the Belgian/Iraqi band Use Knife's influential album 'The Shedding Of Skin'.
'Peace Carnival', releasing on Berlin’s Morphine Records, challenges the narrative around peace through its percussion, glitches, distortions, and Muslimgauze-esque minimalism to critique and rethink perceptions of justice and freedom.
This year, Carnival's usual satire and mockery should be directed towards the so-called and one-sided 'peace'.
Tracklist
| 1. | To Feed the Gentry feat. Radwan Ghazi Moumneh (Rabih Beaini edit) | 9:09 |
| 2. | Ptolemaic (Zoë Mc Pherson remix) | 4:15 |
| 3. | Coupe d'état (Muqata'a مقاطعة remix) | 4:43 |
Credits
Mastered by Rashad Becker
Graphic Design by Jef Cuypers
Arabic lettering by Farah Fayyad
Distributed by Rush Hour
Morphine Records 2024
License
All rights reserved.Tags
Use Knife is the raw synergy between Iraqi vocalist/percussionist Saif Al-Qaissy and Belgian musicians Kwinten Mordijck and Stef Heeren. They tell a necessary tale of freedom, responsibility and the gulf between the Eastern and Western mindset. Even the instrumentation itself reflects this friction; intuitively muddling distorted industrial textures and jerky EBM pulses with brittle Iraqi rhythms.