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White Space

by Youniss

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Official release on March 8, 2023.

    Heavyweight vinyl edition on black vinyl.

    Includes unlimited streaming of White Space via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 7 days
    edition of 300 

      €20 EUR or more 

     

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      €7 EUR  or more

     

  • T-Shirt/Shirt

    "Every night, all over the world, hundres of people see this man in their [ ] space."

    Printed on front - Gilden heavy cotton T
    White Space 2023 Tour Merch.
    ships out within 10 days
    Purchasable with gift card

      €25 EUR or more 

     

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Habitat 03:01
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SO SLOW 02:58
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OVERTHINKIN 00:43
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Walad 01:47 video
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Sinking 03:34

about

Belgian musician and visual artist Youniss presents his second album which is dubbed “White Space”, set to be released on VIERNULVIERRECORDS on Marc 8, 2023. The record deals with his own personal “panic attack” instilled by the aftermath of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020. With heralding vocals bathing in polyphonic fragility, shrieking guitar sounds and rattling patched-up drumwork with electronic-like textures, he delivers his own take on a perfectly imperfect 90’s punk rock meets IDM cassette tape - giving a voice to his inner existential outcries.

As an exploration of identity and self expression, Antwerp based Youniss moves his way through the awkward, intrusive feelings that accompany performing as a black man with an Arabic name through the gaze of the western world. The music and graphic concept of ‘White Space’ is fueled by the pain caused by being misperceived and the feeling of being lost in the search to fit in. Where his previous self-titled debut album captured the more romantic aspects of his identity by celebrating his heritage, his second full length now problematizes the a priori fixed positioning within the dominant white system and the ritual dances one must perform as an artist and human being of colour.

Tapping into this discomfort, ‘White Space’ channels a grim-natured realm of the anxious and surreal where one immediately engages with Youniss’ spiraling inner outcries and shrieking sounds. Spanning over only 20 minutes the record blazes like an infinite whirlwind, raging in the spirit of a 90’s punk-rock cassette tape with rapidly cut tracks brief in length. As with a tape, these tracks are bound to be played over and over in search for the melodramatic eye of a cyclic storm.

Although rich in imperfections, one will discover a coherent sound design and overlapping electronic-like textures crunching like a carefully constructed IDM record. For this Youniss forced himself to reinvent his production process: self-taught guitar riffs, exploring the outer fringes of his voice, sampling organic drumwork and stitching this together into a wayward patchwork of sounds that get under the skin.

credits

released March 8, 2023

All tracks Written, composed, arranged, recorded & mixed by Youniss Ahamad
Drums by Tim Caramin on all tracks but OVERTHINKIN
Bass by Ruben De Maesschalck on all tracks but Sinking, So Slow, The Fool Who Lost His Way & Arms Bent Back
Additional synthline by Samuel Cooremans on “Habitat”
Mastered by Frederik Dejongh at Jerboa Mastering

Artwork Concept by Youniss Ahamad
Graphic Design by Chloé D’hauwe
Illustrations & styling by Malik Carael
Photography by Adel Setta

In cooperation with VIERNULVIER, STUK, De Singel and Vlaams Cultuurhuis de Brakke Grond

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Youniss Antwerp, Belgium

As an exploration of identity and self expression, Youniss moves his way through the awkward, intrusive feelings that accompany performing as a black man with an Arabic name through the gaze of the western world.

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