MUSIC

KMANJAH #1: II WAVEZ

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Exhaling heartfelt human oceans bit by bit, this how the Kuwaiti indietronica band gives out their music to the world. II Wavez, a band consisting of two rad girls; Cera, a fine arts student who plays the keyboard and drums, and Ghaliya, a high school student who plays the guitar. 

The band was formed in 2013, and has two albums so far: Ocean of Love and Youth, with the first consisting of two tracks and the latter consisting of five.

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ii wavez // soundcloud & bandcamp
hayat // kmanjah & twitter

 

MET IN SIN // GHAZI BALUCCI

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photo by @chebmoha

photo by @chebmoha

 

 

"فتى فتن في فتاة فتاه"
"فتى فتن في فتاة فتاه"

Lord forgive me for I have sinned…

Like a bird beating against the cold wires of a cage; trapped behind the frozen bones that bend and curve into these young ribs, my old heart hums melodic poetry inscribed in the back of my eyelids; metaphors that rhyme with a name that is yours, form overrated similes that underrate the magnificence of your design.

All I ever wanted was to make you mine. All I ever wanted was to make you mine.

Tonight I’ll rattle these bones in bags of skin, dance to melodies that sing stories of where we’ve been. I loved you in the name of god but since then, you and I have met in sin. See I loved you in the name of god but since then, you and I have met in sin.

I loved you in the name of God رب العالمين

(اغفر لي و ارحمني يا ارحم الراحمين)

I loved you in the name of God

but since then, you and I have met in sin.

I loved you in the name of God…

SUBTWEET // DINA RASHID, JOHARA ALMOGBEL & SARAH AHMED

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It was a normal It, on the outside.
blue, smooth, eel-like, and fatally poisonous.

Weren’t all Its like that?

It went about with its job normally, too.
kill that dissender, eat this one’s child out.

Normal business. Everyday. Standard procedure for the world it lived in.
a corrupt rule, a future decay. a once great Earth in ruins.

It knew no remorse. No it did. No conscience for the role it held, the lives it ruined.
Its never feel, the manual says. Manual 88A. Its are the perfect soldiers and spies, the marketing pitch says. They don’t exist, the ministry says. 

Except It did. Feel.
betray the betrayer. skip number 6. accidental technical error. error.

For you see, It’s handler was human. And It’s handler was fighting back.
download the new software. spread the seeds of doubt.

fake old Ahmed’s death.

error.

hit the president’s wife.

error.

change its. change its. change the world. error. error. error.

ERROR ERROR ERRO

On the outside, It was a normal it.
blue, smooth, eel-like, the perfect soldier. the perfect spy.

A totalitarian government’s killer.
hit them, scare them, finish them. rule. 

But on the inside, It was a He.
save them, save them, error error error.

And He was fighting back.
a rebellion is born.

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audio // dina rashid
text // johara almogbel
gif // sarah ahmed