Blast
Blast
BLAST is an electroArab music duo formed by Queer Falafel/Anthony Kmeid and Mad Monkey /Pako Serrano.
Their set is dark, industrial, harsh and dancy. The sounds are intersected with Arab vocals and queer anti-colonial performance.
Reclaiming spaces
Transmuting dissidences
Deconstructing binarisms
They met in 2022 and started working on the project. Falafel/Anthony is a Lebanese migrant in Barcelona, they create the content of BLAST, based on their corporal, mental and emotional process dealing with their PTSD facing bomb sounds and denouncing the eurocentric colonial perspectives that exoticise Arabs and feminised identities.
BLAST is targetting different kinds of spaces with different formats, for clubs and festivals but also contemporary art spaces and politicised queer BIPOC collectives. It is becoming one of the few references for queer Arabs and migrants and is promoting a discourse of empowerment, vindication and intersectionality.