Qayna | fr

"Al Qaynah is a global effort and we're composers and musicians from different cultural, religious and ethnic backgrounds. Afghanistan thusly is our metaphorical homeland. The musical project is to blend western, Middle Eastern and eastern influences in a homogenous way. Emphasizing unity and flow - not differences. The musical vision is 'eastern metal'. It's an attempt to create a sound that truly reflects the urban experience of late modern western society, without adhering to common genre boundaries. By blending Middle Eastern and Indian influences with industrial and metal influences we seek to create a distinct and unique style of late...

QAYNA is a musical show for four women singers and eight musicians, each from different worlds and with different inspiration but based on the pre-Islamic song traditions of the Qayna. They come together in a musical space with western voices and instruments, with the occasional interlude of lute and saz baglama. A journey in time through the written and spoken word. A stroll through the extraordinary experience that was the Qayna, the free/enslaved women that also came from conquered people – free due to their perfect mastery of poetry and vocabulary, of singing and instruments. .