The cover of Toni Geitani’s Wahj is, at first glance, an intimidating presence: all blacks and browns, the painting looks like a cave or a crater, the scene of some great but unknowable violence. He was originally trained as a filmmaker, and his first mid-length film, The Disappearance of Goya (2018), is a reckoning with the Lebanese Civil War. Geitani is hyper-aware of the resonance that samples can hold, and he deploys them with care; in addition to studying film, he has a Master’s degree in electronic music, and his thesis was “Sampling as a Political Medium.” On songs like “Wasla” and “Madda Mudadda,” sampled voices emerge from glitching electronics and static, speaking to us from the distant past.
Author: exy
Published at: 2026-03-20 22:52:37
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