TARIQUA ALAWIYA - The 'Imâra (The Dance Of The Stars) LP Emo Andrew Pekler

Andrew Pekler

Thinking the dystopian consequences of plastic through to their post-human conclusion

the songs skewed increasingly introspective and emotive

and black mass downtempo

but not in its form but because now I had so many more stems or voices that could be played simultaneously compared to my earlier pieces

TARIQUA ALAWIYA - The 'Imâra (The Dance Of The Stars) LP Emo Andrew PeklerThis version of the imra starts with the qahili introduction in the form of a prayer to the prophet, then the tawhid (the affirmation of divine unicity) : l illha illah llah . This same dikhr (psalmody) quickens its pace, at first very slowly, then more and more rapid until the name of Allah is repeated to a binary rhythm. The fuqra will shortly retain only hu (from Allahu) as it is gradually imposed by the qutb (the pole). The hu is transformed by