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    egyptian beats for the global apocalypse

    by PRAED
    Mar 19, 2019
    egyptian beats for the global apocalypse
     
    Egyptian Beats for the Global Apocalypse

    By Peter Holslin

    Listening to the album can feel like being spun in circles: you don’t know whether to surrender to the vortex, or get out while you still can. It’s evocative of the kind of intensity and tension that pulses daily through globalized megacities like Cairo, where massive population growth and urbanization, economic uncertainty and political repression manifest in ways big and small. “The album is a reflection of our contemporary world,” Conca explains in an email. “Wherever you look, it feels like we are heading into the apocalypse very soon, whether economically, politically, or environmentally speaking. There is a limitation of movement and freedom, a difference in possibilities depending on where you’re from.”

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    https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/egyptian-beats-for-the-global-apocalypse

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