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Forthcomig Release  
03/24

more here                                                                                           Collaborative Project with Rosso Polare 

This album brings together Dania Shihab, an Iraqi-born, Tasmania-raised, and Barcelona-based experimental artist, and Rosso Polare, the Milanese duo of Cesare Lopopolo and Anna Vezzosi. The collaboration grew out of years of mutual admiration and intersections, uniting around their largely improvised, often dystopian, and always widescreen soundscapes.



Recent and Upcoming performances
    • 2025  March - opening for Alessandro Cortini
    • 2025 March - opening for Moin 
    • 2025 - June - Sònar - premiere Replica - Relic
    • 2025 - October - La Capella “objecto - territorio”
    • 07/24 - Eufonic - Delta d’ebre
    • 07/24 - Cafe Oto with Rosso Polare and Concepcion Huerta - London
    • 09/24 - Silent Green with Naemi - Berlin
    • 09/24 - el Pulmarejo with Christina Vantzou - Barcelona (cancelled - general strike for Palestine)

    Enough For Me To Remain
    10/24
      Label: Geographic North

      Collaborative album with Portland based guitaris Ilyas Ahmed

      Mastered by Chuck Johnson
      Produced for release by Bobby Power
      Illustration by Louie Crumbley
      Designed by Farbod Kokabi
      Title taken from the poem by Fadwa Tuqan

      Replica - Relic
      Work in Progress 

      Five custom built instruments based on colonial acquisitions of Mesopotamian artefacts from the British Museum. 

      SHAPE + platform
      2024/2025      Selected as a SHAPE+ artist for ‘24/25.
      SHAPE+ is a European platform for innovative music and art.
      Goethe Institut Athens
      10.10 -02.11.2024       Collaborative audio visual project with Sarah-Anaïs Desbenoit 

      Collaboration with Valentina Alvarado Matos  
      Ongoing

      Collaborative audiovisual project with film maker Valentina Alvarado Matos: Mira Festival (BCN), Rarefaccio (BCN) , Cafe Oto (LDN) and La Casa Encendida (MAD).

      Labirynth of a Lost Language  
      Frac Corsica
      20.08.2024
      1 hour long form composition comissioned for FRAC corsica.


      I have been thinking a lot about language of late. About the words which have faded on my lips, - ghost words.  Words long abandoned. Words that wrap around my tongue and awkwardly stumble out of my mouth. Words that have been buried by linguistic imperialism, by a lingua franca.
      This piece is about language and the state of finding oneself perpetual tongue tied, it is composed of multiple languages, Corsican, French, Arabic and Spanish. 

      In this composition, you will find words of decay, words in decay, whispered words of loss, alienation and foreignness weaving between field recordings I collected in Corsica. Here I draw maps in a language labyrinth in a vain attempt to find a centre. Here you will find words about - The other. The outer. Here you will not find a transcript, but an invitation to decipher yourself and also get lost in my language labyrinth.



      Basta Now!
       Basta Now. Women, Trans & Non-binary in Experimental Music is a non-academic essay by French poet, novelist and music enthusiast Fanny Chiarello. It’s also the first book to be published by Permanent Draft, an all-female record label and micro-press founded by Chiarello & musician Valentina Magaletti, dedicated to promoting contemporary female, non-binary and transgender artists
      Mentioned in the book.         
      Community Between Islands
      05/24      Five week residency on Islands of Syros, Sardinia and Corsica.