Hello, Kmanjah’s back. The first post after a long break is about the moon magician, Hasan Hujairi. He is a composer, sound artist, and a researcher. He is from both Bahrain and Seoul, which are both apparent in his music.
Hasan is,in the words of another musician, Ahmed Zainal “way ahead of his time”, which I somehow agree with. He is ahead of his time In the way he brings the universe forward to the listener; puts it in electronic beats, experiments with senses and you get a track with a bonus track-art with it for each angle of you to be tastefully pleased.
When asked why he makes the music he makes, he said to me: I create music just because I have a strong impulse to create music. The music I make is one possible way for me to connect different thoughts, interests, concerns, and concepts together. Mind you I don't really know how the listener would perceive the music I release, and I don't know whether any of those parameters through which I operate even come across in the end. Perhaps this is why I don't feel that it's important to explain what message I am trying to deliver through my music.
Maybe I'm just trying to deliver music as how it happens at the time in which I make it.
Hasan has a number of productions, which are available for streaming and downloading on his website. A few of them are: Manama and Other Spices (2009) , a series of Sonicles (a word which combines ‘sounds’ and ‘monicles’): sonicles 1, 2, and 3 . And he frequently releases tracks on soundcloud.
Official website: http://www.hasanhujairi.com/
Social-media accounts:
Souncloud: https://soundcloud.com/hasanhujairi/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/hujairi
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hasan.hujairi/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hasanhujairiofficial
Here are five tracks by him:
-The first one is one of the first tracks I’ve heard by him, the musician gives you instructions: Stand on the rooftop of any music college in any university around the world. Listen to the sounds coming out of the practice rooms' windows and your surrounding environment until you recognize any music floating in the air.:
Delicate Plunderphonics for a Rooftop
-The second is completely different, but it welcomes you in as much as his other tracks do anyway:
Revisitations: An Improvisation on the Oud
-To the Korean author, Yi Sang with an attached poem:
Laughing About What We Lost / 우리가 잃어버린 것들에 대한 조소(嘲笑)
-Listed in Mada Masr’s best of 2015, here is Orpheum
-And last but not least, a recording of a performance given at Mullae Art Space, consisting of a reading of texts and an oud performance; “the source of the texts used is a collection of short stories written by Bahraini writer Ahmed Hujairi. The texts are extractions from a short story series entitled “Biscuits”, all of which describe a metaphorical “Wall” that demonstrates many contradictory and oftentimes deplorable characteristics.”
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