Temir Alcy - ناض (2026)

Macabre songs about loss, emptiness, and regrowth, setting Basma’s keening, miasmic haze of Moroccan Darija lyrics to a topography of swelling drones, industrial art-pop, tone poems, and skulking downbeat grooves produced by Enir Da and a host of SWANA and Berlin-related artists. Think Tuxedomoon meets Fatima Al Qadiri at Stroom’s gaff...
“Here is a tender journey through loss and rebirth — a raw exploration of grief, heartbreak, and the emptiness that follows. It unfolds the fragile moments after losing a beloved friend, the fragile attempts to mend a fractured love, and the sudden rupture that shakes the soul to its core. Amidst the turmoil, anxiety pulses and the body aches with memories too heavy to hold. Yet, slowly, the darkness gives way to light. Breath returns. Support is found in unexpected places. Memories surface through hypnotic whispers, guiding the way back to softness and hope. This is not a story of instant healing, but a delicate awakening — a reckoning with old patterns, a reclaiming of the self, a learning to love differently. Intimate and universal, fragile yet fiercely alive.

Basma & Temir Alcy composes music of thresholds: a space where one moves between night and dawn, between what fades away and what remains. Basma, a French-Moroccan singer, develops sung narratives in Moroccan Darija. She explores links between her heritage and intimate spaces, bringing stories and sensations that seek another form of existence to light. Temir Alcy (Enir Da – cofounder of Dali Muru & The Polyphonic Swarm, multi-instrumentalist Charles Lmx & Lucas Valero) moves between ambient, leftfield and experimental folk forms, where acoustic instruments, electronic processes and hypnotic rhythms intertwine. The quartet explores shifting realms where memory, the body and the voice converge.”