Omar Souleyman är en oväntad kärlekspredikant. Vem hade kunnat ana att en bröllopssångare från Ras al Ayn i Syrien, med dryga 500 album bakom sig, skulle bli kult på klubbscenen världen över? Support: Ikhana

Omar Souleyman har samarbetat med storheter som Four Tet och Modeselektor och besökte senast Sverige när han skapade ett kokande dansgolv framför Malmöfestivalens stora scen förra sommaren.
2013 var året då Souleyman nekades visum för en spelning på Stockholm Music & Arts, men efter massiva protester fick han i sista stund ett visum och kunde göra en bejublad spelning på Way Out West samma år. Nu får vi än en gång chansen att se honom sprida sitt eviga budskap om kärlek på svenska scener igen!

“Irresistible, hyperactive electronica” The Guardian 
“The music here can compete against any kind of dance music being made right now, and succeed.” Pitchfork

Arrangör: Frihamnen Event & Luger

SUPPORT: IKHANA

Ikhana är support till Omar Souleyman. Hon befinner sig mest i Göteborg och kan titulera sig producent, sångerska, låtskrivare, student. Ikhana har många järn i elden, och hennes finfina låtar andas soul, hiphop och R’n’B. Hon har nyligen släppt sin singel med namnet WTA.

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Omar Souleyman (Syria)   An unexpected preacher of love.

It’s a strange world we live in. Who could’ve foreseen that a wedding singer from Ras al Ayn, Syria with over 500 albums under his belt would become a cult hero among club connoisseurs?

But there is an undeniable bond between the legacy 50-year-old delves in – a synthesized version of the Levantine dance music Dabke – and so-called acid house. In both cases musicians cultivate undulating synths and effective rhythms, and in both cases it feels like your head is about to explode from the stimuli, while the hips take on their own lives. It is completely irrelevant where you hail from – all it takes is a sensory apparatus.

Then it’s really no wonder that gurus like Four Tet (who produced his breakthrough album Wenu Wenu), Modeselektor and Gilles Peterson are honored to have worked with a master like Souleyman.

When so much of this day and age is in utter chaos, there’s comfort to be found in how the Syrian sings about the great theme of love as the war drum beat rages on carelessly. This is, after all, dance music’s virtue: The ability to dissolve us in time and space, building bridges where walls previously were to be found.

“Irresistible, hyperactive electronica” The Guardian 
“The music here can compete against any kind of dance music being made right now, and succeed.” Pitchfork
“When the buzzsaw, ear-piercing keyboards and thumps of the drum machine hit your eardrums, all rationale is rendered futile.” The Quietus