Egyptian singer/producer Nadah El Shazly announces North American dates

Egyptian Singer/Producer/Multi-instrumentalist
Nadah El Shazly
Announces North American Dates

“An artist capable of blending improvisational methods pulled from classical Arabic music and contemporary free-jazz abstraction” — The Wire

Nadah El Shazly is an experimental Egyptian singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer. Her work radically reinvents the popular music of her homeland from the early 20th century, incorporating electronics, free jazz, and noise while pushing all of the above to new sonic and harmonic frontiers. (El Shazly also has a background playing punk, traditional jazz, and electronica.)

She will be touring Canada and the U.S. starting in April, backed on select dates by Godspeed You! Black Emperor‘s Thierry Amar on double bass along with saxophonist / drummer / synth player Devin Brahja Waldman (Patti Smith, William Parker, and Thurston Moore, Brahja, etc.) El Shazly shares the bill on other dates with Danish post-punk outfit Iceage, whose 2018 album Beyondless was celebrated by outlets like Pitchfork, SPIN, and The Quietus.

DATES

April 17 – Tone Deaf, Kingston, ON
April 18 – Burdock, Toronto, ON
April 19 – Factory Media Centre, Hamilton, ON
April 21 – Deluxx Fluxx, Detroit, MI
April 23 – Anderson Auditorium, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
April 24 – Blank Forms, Brooklyn, NY
April 28 – Marfa Myths Festival, Marfa, TX
April 30 – Dickens, Calgary, AB *
May 01 – Amigo’s, Saskatoon, AB *
May 02 – Temple, Edmonton, AB *
May 04 – Good Will, Winnipeg, MB *
May 05 – The Aquarium, Fargo, ND *
May 06 – Turf Club, Minneapolis, MN *
May 07 – Lincoln Hall, Chicago, IL *
May 08 – Cactus Club, Milwaukee, WI
May 09 – Trumpet Blossom Cafe, Feed Me Weird Things, Iowa City, IA
May 10 – Rozz-Tox, Rock Island, IL
May 14 – Postmasters Gallery, ArteEast, NYC
June 06 – State House, New Haven, CT,
June 08 – Thing In The Spring, Peterborough, NH
June 12 – Casa Del Popolo, Montreal, QC
June 30 – Memphis Concrete Festival, Memphis, TN

* with Iceage

Nadah also wrote an essay on the connections she hears between the “futuristic music of the Arab world from the 1890s to the 1920s” and the “time travel” sensation created by the work of Ornette Coleman. She writes: “I realized that there’s a huge difference between nostalgia and falling in love with something from the past, particularly when its relevance is carried-through over a hundred years later.”