Bosaina
Cairo, Al Qāhirah, Egypt | SELF
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Press
BOSAINA & THE WETROBOTS JOIN THE LINEUP FOR SHARE BEIRUT, ALONGSIDE JIMMY EDGAR, TIM EXILE, FATIMA AL QADIRI, DJ RUPTURE, & VENUS X - SHARE
Bosaina II featured in Al Monitor - AL MONITOR
Bosaina II featured on Dubspot's Student Spotlight - DUBSPOT
Bosaina II featured on Dubspot's Student Spotlight - DUBSPOT
Bosaina II featured in Rolling Stone Magazine
"The outspoken singer aims to push electro scene forward in homeland, despite opposition" - ROLLING STONE
The Antithesis of Revolution Music. Feature on the underground music scene in Cairo, Egypt. - NORIENT
The Antithesis of Revolution Music. Feature on the underground music scene in Cairo, Egypt. - NORIENT
Wetrobots <3 Bosaina has released an excellent new EP: Bang and Blow. Anyone who has followed the relatively new band’s progress over the last year and a half will notice that something has changed. The quality is still high, but the message is different. - Daily News Egypt
Wetrobots <3 Bosaina on BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat.
Also check out our interview on BBC Radio 1, 21/6/2012 - BBC RADIO 1
WETROBOTS <3 BOSAINA FEATURED IN SIDE-LINE MAG - SIDE-LINE MAG
WETROBOTS <3 BOSAINA FEATURED IN SIDE-LINE MAG - SIDE-LINE MAG
WETROBOTS <3 BOSAINA FEATURED ON INDIE NATIVE - INDIE NATIVE
WETROBOTS <3 BOSAINA ON EGYPT INDEPENDENT - EGYPT INDEPENDENT
WETROBOTS <3 BOSAINA ON CAIRO SCENE - CAIRO SCENE
WETROBOTS <3 BOSAINA ON CAIRO SCENE - CAIRO SCENE
WETROBOTS <3 BOSAINA FEATURED ON THE URBAN OUTFITTERS BLOG - URBAN OUTFITTERS
WETROBOTS <3 BOSAINA FEATURED IN VICE MAGAZINE - VICE
WETROBOTS <3 BOSAINA FEATURED IN NOISEY/VICE - NOISEY/VICE
WETROBOTS <3 BOSAINA FEATURED IN NOISEY/VICE - NOISEY/VICE
Discography
Bosaina: New York Apr-Jul 2013 EP (2014)
Quit Together: The Imitation Of EP(2013)
Wetrobots <3 Bosaina: Bang & Blow EP (2012)
Wetrobots <3 Bosaina: Dirty Bourgeoisie (2011)
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Bio
"... fusing electronic beats with sounds from the subway and construction sites, jazz records, and adding layers of vocal harmonies, which she records and mixes in the bathtub. Devoid of frustration, it's soul music..." - ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE
For Bosaina II, the transition from performer to producer has been a challenge of redefining her layered musical identities. She is perhaps better known as front-woman of several bands in Egyptian collective KIK (Kairo Is Koming) with whom she's travelled and toured, most notably as an official showcasing artist at SXSW 2013 as one half of Quit Together.
Her early beginnings on the Cairo underground music circuit started with electro outfit Wetrobots <3 Bosaina, a collaboration that saw the singer gain attention for her wildly unrestrained performances in a religiously riotous city. She then took a sharp turn into experimental territory with Quit Together, creating a genre-bending repertoire of music before finally settling into her own deeply isolated space as a solo artist.
It was during an extended stint in New York city that Bosaina II developed her hauntingly insular sound, sampling a milieu of details from decaying urban life and transforming them into violently sentimental pieces that stream in and out of consciousness. On the visual front, her love affair with cinema serves as a focal point for many of her intimate productions; dense and distorted soundscapes that combine her affection for vast synths and ambient textures along with percussive elements from life underground.
Aside from preparing for KIK's upcoming tour of Europe, Bosaina II is currently working on her debut EP "New York, April-July 2013", a collection of songs that detail her deeply personal journey into the remote and deconstructed universe of emotive electronica.
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