Beyn-Na-Beyn - cement body, dreams concussed [Cassette]

Format: MC
Catalogue No.: FTCASS10
Barcode: 5053760132301
Release Date: 13 Jun 2025
Genre: Alternative

TRACKLIST:
1. Static Drop feat. Anja Ngozi, Damsel Elysium 
2 · Learning to Rest, Learning to Resist 
3 · Stillness (live at strange-domain at Ormside Projects 30.05.24) 
4 · Loose String Woven feat. Emma Warren

beyn-na-beyn (farsi translation - "inbetween the inbetween") is a vessel slipping between realities, they paint sonic dialogues with the past fused with the distorted struggles of the present. ---- Beyn-na-beyn is an artist, cultural programmer and DIY activist - currently a studio artist at Gasworks in London, their social practice approach to sound art and music has seen them collaborate with diverse communities and activist groups in grass root settings and institutions such as Gasworks, Dulwich Picture Gallery, The ICA, Raw Materials and more. Their practice is informed by identity, agency and opening access to the creative process to different people through a social impact lens. 

As the contemporary music and culture programmer at Southbank Centre for five years they produced and commissioned specialised cross-disciplinary work and platformed under-represented artists at the institution. Their most recent work includes curating and producing a climate activism album and film, ‘Echoes’, for In Place of War’s Earthsonic Label; founding strange-domain, a series of live performance scores responding to the current geo-political reality through a diasporic lens; and launching a commissioned deck of cards as one half of InnerSwell, made in collaboration with young people at the ICA. "from 2nd jan 2021 - 2nd june 2022 I lived for 18 months with long covid (and fuck me it were long) - this music was channelled through an ancient instrument from my heritage that called to me in the throws of chronic fatigue and sunken eyes needing calm…i recorded for hours and hours in meditation, my mind relaxed, i felt the cellular rest my body was craving and got lost in the deep... i didn’t know what the instrument was until i returned to the dusty folder in 2024 and found in a book that was on my shelf the whole time that it was a palmiri rubab. the first entry blew me away, this instrument was used by communities across the persian, turkic, and arabic mountains, originating in tajikistan, for centuries in healing ceremonies called Maddoh. using poetry and singing, the instrument itself resembling the body…my ancestors had spoken to me in my time of need... the accompanying poem is inspired by black quantum futurism's theory of time and how my long covid allowed me to access transtemporal travel. contributing to my rejection of the capitalist monopoly on our time and productivity cycles that trap us, i quit my job not long after my recovery... 'Stillness' was a channelling of the spirit of this work at at strange-domain raising money for palestinian activists. it was an improvised response to a brief i set to all the artists performing inspired by Angela Davis' "radical self-care" and the message sits at the core of what this music represents to me… ~rest and restore together to sustain and resist in solidarity~ so this body of work i intend as a way of encouraging rest and restoration in our lives, if privileged enough to be able to, and allow ourselves to counter the hyper capitalist and colonial reality we live in and let the stillness in (something i have to constantly remind myself to do)..."