Prancing partnership
Edging to precarity
Fire dance with me
BlackKaji. A study of the unseen, unsound, unsuspecting, unsustainable, unstable.
This is a series conceived by Ujikaji and The Observatory.
Music lineup:
auji // ila
Prospexx
Tengal and Elvin Brandhi
Praed
Words by Mark Wong
Art direction by Yuen Chee Wai
Praed’s participation is kindly supported by Goethe-Institut Singapore, Pro Helvetia and Kultur Stadt Bern.
Founded by Raed Yassin and Paed Conca in 2006, “Praed” is a band whose musical oeuvre can be described as a mixture of Arabic popular music, free jazz, and electronics. The band consists of two regular members: Raed Yassin playing keyboards, laptop, electronics and vocals; and Paed Conca on clarinet, electric bass and electronics.
The band’s body of work mainly explores the terrain of Arabic popular music (“Shaabi”) and its interconnectedness with other psychedelic and hypnotic musical genres in the world, such as free jazz, space jazz, and psychedelic rock among others. Since its inception, Praed has shown a very keen interest in this music as a medium that reflects Egyptian society’s complicated fabric. Through the research it conducted, the band began to discover a strong cultural connection between “Shaabi” sounds and the “Mouled” music played in religious trance ceremonies.
Details
Date: Tuesday, 25 March, 7.30pm to 11pm
Location: Blackbox at Goodman Arts Centre, 90 Goodman Road, Block M, Singapore 439053
