BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.5//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6001@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200709T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200709T200000 DTSTAMP:20200708T152703Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/liverpool-arab-arts-festival-fes tival-launch-event-walead-ben-selim-and-widad-broco-n3rdistan/ SUMMARY:: Liverpool Arab Arts Festival: Festival launch event – Walead Be n Selim and Widad Broco/N3rdistan DESCRIPTION:\nFestival launch event – Walead Ben Selim and Widad Broco/N3 rdistan\n\n\nThursday 9 July\, 7:00 pm - 8:00 pmFree\n\nMusicThe event wil l be streamed on LAAF’s Facebook page at 7pm\, Thursday 9 July. No booki ng required.  \n\nWatch Online\n\n“N3rdistan the future of alternative Moroccan music”\nLibération Ma\n\nWalead Ben Selim and Moroccan musical collective N3rdistan make visit to Liverpool Arab Arts Festival for a liv e performance to launch our first digital festival.\n\nIt is the story of exiled people who have come from elsewhere with their mystical songs\, uns ettling text and compelling rimes. Guided by these mystical tunes and the abrasive flow by the charismatic Walead Ben Selim\, N3rdistan elaborates a resolutely bold fusion\, which is unusual\, and serenely “avant gardist ”.\n\nBetween rock\, trip hop\, electro\, oriental-beat with world influ ences\, this quartet mixes with ease digital power\, ancestral Arabic poet ry\, the targeted singing intermingling here and there with the melodies o f a Qanoon and African Keys. Without falling into the trap of ethnic-elect ro this firey sonorisation serves as an engine to this group producing the most highly musical journey of the moment.\n\nN3rdistan is today producin g an exciting show\, which is on the border between Oriental beat and Elec tro-urban\, using Ethnic music notes on personal texts and famous freedom poets (Mahmoud Darwich\, Gibran Khalil\, Nizar Qabbani …) tweaking world samples and sounds\, questioning the meaning of life or digital exile. N3 rdistan incites the discovery of new musical horizons.\n\nWalead Ben Selim biography \n\nBorn in Casablanca in 1984\, Walead Ben Selim was a bright and inquisitive student who rebelled from childhood. At school he founded with Houssine otherwise Wu-Sen\, one of the first rap group of Morocco\, ‘Thug-gang” joined by Widad Broco the first women rap artist of the Ar abic world\, which then became  “TG Crew”\, a dozen groups playing ra p\, dance\, Graff. Moroccan rap was thus at his beginning and Thug Gang pl ayed a critical and abrasive hip-hop\, oscillating between the need for li mits\, and social uprising. With time they became the flag bearers for the ir friends but also for the Moroccans youth suffering from lack of liberty and new forms of artistic expression. Together they won the ‘tremplin ’ for young musicians in 2001 and the Moroccan hip-hop championship.\n\n In 2011 after travelling and cultural exchanges with Africa\, Asia\, and E uropa\, Walead called upon Nidhal JAOUA a multi-instrumentalist to create a digital synopsis of his musical experiences to build the foundations of the group with Widad\, joined by Cyril Canerie a studio drummer\, of Inter nationnal renown and Khalil Hentai (Epi)\, the group became finally formed in May 2014 before being selected for the “Inouîs de printemps de Bour ges” in 2015.\n\nTrans generational and transgender\, appealing and incr edibly mystical\, N3rdistan is on the frontier of electronic music\, rap a nd Arabic poetry. On stage\, N3rdistan is a ball of energy\, which get str onger as the minutes go by\, the melodies sometimes aggressive\, sometimes gentle are sung by unusual voices in which the ease surprises and destabi lises\, an explosion of colours.\n\n“An electro-urban project with its t ools in Oriental inspiration. They show their determination to remember ac tions by past generations in causes\, which are still topical today. N3rdi stan ‘s message is timeless”\nNovaPlanet\n\nRead an interview from 201 8 in The New Arab\n\nThis event is in partnership with MARSM UK\n\nBook Tickets ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2020/07/Walead-Widad-3-768x512-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200329T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR