Sound & Fiction Museland

We return with our limited series focusing on music and creatives. In this episode we meet with Bahrain's very own beat-maker, graffiti artist and Bboy, DUST to talk about his journey into dance, tagging walls and discovering old school hip-hop. From his road trips across the desert to Oman to take part in Bboy dancing competitions, to teaching himself how to make beats on samplers. 

In this exclusive conversation with the founder of legendary progressive rock band Osiris, brothers Mohamed and Nabil Alsadiqi talk to host Ali Al Saeed about their early days, how their journey with the band began, and share their thoughts about the state of the music scene, industry and community back then and today. 

This is a special edition to launch during the 2020 online edition of the Sound + Fiction program. More here soundandfiction.me 

Bahraini artist Mustafa Halwachi talks to us about his need to "keep making things" and dipping his hands into as many pots as he could, from graffiti to carpentry and from fabrication to MCing. Over the years, he has cemented his place as one of the most creative and active artists on the island... he shares stories of how he got into it all, his philosophy and surprisingly drops some fire bars on us!   

We follow up our firsts episode with a fascinating chat with one of Bahrain's most fascinating characters. Hasan Hujairi - sound artist, composer and researcher - is a pioneer in the field in the region, having delved deeper into the theories, practicalities and histories of "musics" and created his own brand of it.

In this podcast we talk about the constraints of traditional music and the need to reshape them, his thoughts on the noise and sound art scene in Bahrain and the region, and stories of his "blessed" time traveling around the world being exposed to music he would not have been exposed to otherwise.

In our first episode of the new Sound & Fiction podcast, we sit down with Abdulla Faisal, member of the bands Majaz and Arabstract, to talk about the importance of collaboration in music, his passion for Columbia and its culture, and gettin into filmmaking.