Asifeh
Asifeh’s music inhabits the space between decaying technologies, sampled fragments, fractured rhythms, and an urgent human voice. Working with obsolete and failing machines, he draws fragile, imperfect sounds that pit the will to live against the machinery of erasure. His process embraces the unpredictability of recording in takes, allowing the music to retain the accidents and rawness of its making. Raised in Ramallah and based in Vienna, Asifeh co-founded Ramallah Underground, a pioneering Palestinian collective born out of the Second Intifada and active from 2003 to 2009. His four solo albums, from Iradeh (2012) to Tasalul (2022), trace an evolving practice spanning hip-hop and experimental electronic music, alongside the self-released synth-based projects Hideout and 2003.