PRAED Japan Tour 2019, our 5th, with concerts in Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka and Kobe.
We are presenting the new album "Doomsday Survival Kit" out on Akuphone as CD and Vinyl!
https://akuphone.com/catalog/1pRd1timEEwy#content
webpage in Japanese: http://www.paed.ch/praed/jp.html
11th of September at the Yellow Vision in Tokyo, Japan
12th of September at the Knuttel House in Tokyo, Japan
13th of September at the Velvet Sun in Tokyo, Japan
14th of September at the Jazz Art Sengawa Festival in Tokyo, Japan
15th of September at the Bonobo in Tokyo, Japan
16th of September at the Spazio Rita in Nagoya, Japan
17th of September at the Take Five in Osaka, Japan
18th of September at the Big Apple in Kobe, Japan
19th of September at the Environment 0g in Osaka, Japan
20th of September at the Forestlimit in Tokyo, Japan tbc.
Akuphone presents « Doomsday Survival Kit », PRAED’s fourth album. This is the ultimate kit to prepare calmly for the sixth extinction! The Lebanese duo delivers a raging interpretation of the chaabi – popular Arabic music – using synthesizers, drum Machines, samples and other devices. The result is hypnotic and psychedelic, on the verge of trance. The clarinet of Paed Conca and the soaring lyricism of Raed Yassin sound like distant calls for help emerging from a world that is falling apart and slipping away. The record itself is enhanced by its sleeve – designed by the Lebanese artist Raphaëlle Macaron – printed in 5 Pantone colors making it as explosive as the music.
Swiss/ Lebanese duo Praed aren’t interested in building things slowly and developing their music over time on their fourth album. Not at all. They’re all about the bombast, they’d rather drop you midway, or perhaps mid frenzy into electronic maelstrom of electronic beats, electrics and clarinet. Their sound is heightened, psychedelic chaabi (Arabic popular music), electrified, relentless – these hyper energized slabs of breathless energy.
By Bob Baker Fish on January 20, 2019
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.”
read the full article here:
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/egyptian-beats-for-the-global-apocalypse
Akuphone presents « Doomsday Survival Kit », PRAED’s fourth album. This is the ultimate kit to prepare calmly for the sixth extinction! The Lebanese duo delivers a raging interpretation of the chaabi – popular Arabic music – using synthesizers, drum Machines, samples and other devices. The result is hypnotic and psychedelic, on the verge of trance. The clarinet of Paed Conca and the soaring lyricism of Raed Yassin sound like distant calls for help emerging from a world that is falling apart and slipping away. The record itself is enhanced by its sleeve – designed by the Lebanese artist Raphaëlle Macaron – printed in 5 Pantone colors making it as explosive as the music.
get the album here: https://akuphone.com/catalog/1pRd1timEEwy#content
book us for festivals/concerts here: http://www.paed.ch/praed
