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MONO.KULTUR #43: FATIMA AL QADIRI EXCERPT #03

Thursday, June 29, 2017

Your first EP was released under the pseudonym Ayshay. With Genre-Specific Xperience, you started releasing as Fatima Al Qadiri. Why did you abandon that pseudonym?
Having used Islamic a cappella as samples for my first releases, it made sense to use a pseudonym, as this project was a little edgy. I felt like the next record, [...]

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MONO.KULTUR #43: FATIMA AL QADIRI EXCERPT #02

Monday, June 19, 2017

Desert Strike is a reflection on your experiences during the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and the Gulf War in 1990/1991…’
Yes, but it is even more about this disgusting video game with the same title that came out in 1992, which I hated but, at the same time, couldn’t stop playing because it [...]

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MONO.KULTUR #43: FATIMA AL QADIRI EXCERPT #01

Wednesday, June 14, 2017

‘When I was 16, I started going to the clubs in London and did all the other things that I’m not supposed to say on record. It’s funny, when you think of the transformation of cities in one decade… Like the area behind Tottenham Court Road Station in 1997 had some [...]

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GLAZED EYES

Saturday, June 25, 2016

For your consideration, Cabinet Books’ Notes on Glaze: 18 Photographic Investigations by poet and critic Wayne Koestenbaum.
Notes on Glaze collects Koestebaum’s “Legends” columns for Cabinet. From 2010-2015, he wrote captions for photographs selected by the magazine’s editors, provided he was not acquainted with the image beforehand.
What results resembles a sophisticated Pictionary, in which the caption [...]

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Propelled

Sunday, March 22, 2015

Here’s why those Californian canvas shoes seemed so strangely appealing all these years, strangely appealing even to those who might have never touched Canadian maple in their sorry lives. Thanks, Greg Hunt.

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BLOWING UP

Sunday, December 28, 2014

Boston Bun “Time Bomb” from Lisa Paclet on Vimeo.
Hormonic fumbling and almost-missed connections punctuate the beats of Boston Bun’s “Time Bomb” in this luscious video. Director Lisa Paclet’s résumé includes Chanel, Dior, Kenzo, Y.S.L., so it’s not surprising that the film is all high style. Each shot is immaculately designed, from the crisp sporty outfits [...]

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MONO.KULTUR EXCERPTS #01: MANFRED EICHER

Thursday, December 18, 2014

Every now and then and when we feel like it, let us post here excerpts from previous issues of mono.kultur, as they are always worth going back to. For the grey and rainy transition from autumn to winter, no issue is more appropriate than mono.kultur #26 on the melancholy and stark music label ECM and [...]

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