Muqata'a - La Lisana Lah

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: SOUK012
Barcode: 5065004291651
Release Date: 09 Feb 2024
Genre: Hip Hop / Instrumental / Beats 

Always timely reissue of Muqata'a's first self-released EP from 2017. After years of fertile digital existence on his own Bandcamp, 'La Lisana Lah' now gets a much deserved tactile version through Souk, the Discrepant sublabel responsible for the already classic 'Inkanakuntu'. One of the most prominent figures of the Palestinian electronic scene, Muqata'a's trajectory has been one of resistance and urgency, leaving a sonic imprint of his own from pretty much the beginning.

Without anything tentative or vestigial about its sonic fictions, 'La Lisana Lah' deploys an arsenal of Muqata'a's traits that would be explored on subsequent releases: the glitchy thick textures verging on noise of 'Tib Al Huroof', the narcotic broken beats of 'Taqdirahu Anta' and 'Zyadet Naqs' or the alluring disruptive harmonic suspension of 'Dijla Wal Fada', everything cared for with an essential attention to space and evoking the heritage of Palestinian resistance through his use of samples and scales. A visionary from the get go.

Tracklist
Tim Al Huroof
Taqdirahu Anta
Dijla Wal Fada’
Zyadet Naqs
Al Water Al Wiswas

Mastered by Rashad Becker
Artwork by Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme
SOUK012, 2024
Pressed in Spain