{"id":42140,"date":"2018-11-16T17:22:04","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T15:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/listen-to-deena-abdelwahed-debut-album-khonnar\/"},"modified":"2020-04-27T03:36:56","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T02:36:56","slug":"deena-abdelwahed-khonnar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/deena-abdelwahed-khonnar\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen to Deena Abdelwahed debut album, Khonnar"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tunisian producer unveils a mutant and hedonist techno album.<\/span><\/h3>\n

Following her 2017 debut EP, the producer and DJ member of\u00a0the\u00a0Arabstazy collective<\/a>\u00a0continues the adventure with French label InFin\u00e9\u00a0for\u00a0her album titled \u201cKhonnar\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pronounced \u201cRonnar\u201d, it is a term that makes the most of Tunisia\u2019s cultural and linguistic spectrum. It evokes the dark, shameful and disturbing side of things, the one we usually seek to hide, but which Deena instead sticks our noses in with her music that blends\u00a0bass, techno and experimental.<\/span><\/p>\n

That ambience sets in from the first seconds of debut full-length Khonnar<\/em>. It\u2019s in the Barcelona studio of Edu Tarradas (better known as Clip), an inveterate collector of modular synthesizers, analog drum machines and other hardwares that Deena recorded a large part of this album. Khonnar<\/em>, an untranslatable Tunisian word that evokes the dark, shameful and disturbing side of things, is a kick in the anthill of the morbid consensus, a tidal wave through the murky waters of obscurantism, which highlights what we usually seek, on the contrary, to hide. With application and determination, Deena sticks our noses in what we naively believed was under rug swept: that is the Khonnar<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Listen to Khonnar\u00a0here<\/a>. Find Deena Abdelwahed in our Afro Club Exp. playlist on\u00a0Spotify<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Deezer<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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