https://fatimaalqadiri.bandcamp.com/track/endzone

Fatima Al Qadiri’s Newest Album ‘Brute’  is a comment on Protest, the police and the media around the world. The album opens with overwhelming confusion with recordings of the unrest in Ferguson. A loud thump is heard every 5seconds as the confusion builds. Shouting and sirens howl, putting the listener onto the streets. ‘Endzone’ sets the scene and the following tracks build upon its ominous timbre.

The ambient atmosphere Fatima builds through the album is built up to the final track ‘Power’. This is the first song thats actually danceable. It takes elements from previous tracks and reconfigures them into the new song with the loud thump from ‘Endzone’.

With just field recordings, i think this album aims to comment on the corrupt nature of the media and the over-militarization of police departments who are  “drunk with power”.

Give it a listen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8T36ns-Paw