Remix ⟷ Culture returns with a new exploration of community-rooted music and stories, porting them to the contemporary through audio and visual remix. Once again led by the notion of tanfis, an Arabic word that translates to a cathartic exhalation and liberation of the soul, Tanfis II brings together a collective of NY-based musicians, storytellers, remix artists, and DJs from diaspora communities of Palestine, Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon. In September 2023, the artists embarked on a 3-month residency, where they have collaboratively documented and remixed their community-rooted music and stories in traditional and boundary-pushing ways. The culmination of this adventure is a one-of-a-kind live experience designed to take the audience on a “tanfis” journey, seamlessly harmonizing the traditional and the remix, acoustic and electronic, deep listening and dance, storytelling and trance, embroidery and video art. Featured Artists: Alber Baseel • Alia Haju • Eden Zane • Elina Arbo • Huda Asfour • Lina Barkawi • Michael Joseph Burdi • Mona Miari • Nahed Elrayes • Nezih Antakli • Omar Aena • Sami Abu Shumays • Zafer Tawil • Freedom Dabka Group
A new exploration of community-rooted music and stories, porting them to the contemporary through audio and visual remix. Tanfis II brings together a collective of NY-based musicians, storytellers, remix artists, and DJs from diaspora communities of Palestine, Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon.
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