Senegal-born, Kuwait-raised, New York-based composer Fatima Al Qadiri
debuted with three EPs of evocative, cinematic world-music:
the mostly vocal Warn-u (2011), credited to Ayshay,
that contains the sleepy psychedelic hymn Warn-U and the
cosmic dilation of Jemsheed,
Genre-Specific Xperience (2011), the one that truly defined her as
a major artist,
thanks to the hypnotic minimalist repetition and angelic layered vocals D-medley
and the parodistic cinematic soundtrack Vatican Vibes
(if not to Hip Hop Spa, an imitation for steel drums of
instrumental kitsch muzak of the 1960s, and if not to the
breakbeat jungle Corpcore),
and then the vastly inferior
Desert Strike (Fade to Mind, 2012), that
oscillates between the facile pomp and drama of Ghost Raid and the
chill-out dance of War Games.
Asiatisch (Hyperdub, 2014), mostly instrumental, is an album of
counterfeit Chinese music, sometimes
more cinematic (Shenzhen) and sometimes
less (the exotic synth-pop of Szechuan and
Dragon Tattoo).
The only piece that truly stands out is
Shanghai Freeway, something halfway between Mike Oldfield's
Tubular Bells and a horror soundtrack, and her best sonata for
steel drums and trombones.
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