KHONNAR

Description

Repress of Deena Abdelwahed's debut album "Khonnar" (2018) on InFiné. Pronounced "Ronnar" (an essential detail to avoid interpretation errors for us French speakers), it is a term that best exploits the cultural and linguistic spectrum of Tunisia. It evokes the dark, shameful, and disturbing side of things, the one we usually try to hide, but which Deena, on the contrary, shoves under our noses. It testifies to Deena's blossoming as a citizen of the world and as an artist. A self-construction made of frustrations and constraints, stemming from retrograde mentalities, which are the preserve of neither the East nor the West, and which she tirelessly strives to expose and break. Throughout the 45 minutes of "Khonnar", Deena breaks the codes of bass, techno, and experimental music, and writes the manifesto of a generation that does not seek to please or conform, that takes back control of its identity - with all the losses and chaos that entails. A new creative world order is taking shape, a new tipping point between north and south, the response of a connected and liberated youth taking control of the new decolonization.