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Trax Read: Listen to a Full Stream of Fatima Al Qadiri's Amazing Desert Strike EP

Max Read · 10/23/12 07:40AM

How do you make music about war? Tchaikovsky asked orchestras to drag cannons along with them — to reproduce the actual sounds of battle. There aren't any cannons on Desert Strike, producer Fatima Al Qadiri's new EP — one track opens with a gunshot — but the album is just as interested in the experience of war than the 1812 Overture was. It just borrows heavily from a different, though no less relevant, sonic palette: video games and popular music.