Yazz Ahmed

Yazz Ahmed – Polyhymnia Remixed (EP) (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 20:59 minutes | 234 MB | Genre: Electronic, World Fusion
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Yazz Ahmed

Yazz Ahmed announces her second remix EP, ‘Polyhymnia Remixed’, teaming up with fast-rising underground producers DJ Plead, Asmara and Surly to rework her acclaimed 2019 album Polyhymnia. The follow up to the remix EP for Yazz Ahmed’s sophomore album, ‘La Saboteuse’, her second foray into the dance music realm is nothing short of stunning with these hypnotic reworks.

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Yazz Ahmed – Polyhymnia (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 56:59 minutes | 631 MB | Genre: Jazz, World Fusion
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ropeadope Records

This album is a celebration of female courage, determination and creativity. In 2015, the Tomorrow’s Warriors commissioned me to write an extended work, to be performed by members of their Nu Civilisation Orchestra, for a concert at the Women of the World Festival, in London’s Southbank Centre, on International Women’s Day.

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Yazz Ahmed – La Saboteuse (Remixed) (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 18:25 minutes | 108 MB | Genre: Electronic, World Fusion
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Naim Records

Following the 2017 release of La Saboteuse, her highly acclaimed psychedelic Arabic jazz album, this remix EP brings together three of Europe’s eminent electronic DJs.

This confluence of individual artistic visions creates music of deeply saturating polyrhythms, placing the listener into a curious state of relaxed tension. The sense of a personal narrative runs through all of Ahmed’s work and here is no exception. La Saboteuse as a whole is a journey of self-examination and with this remix EP, the reflection continues in both linear and abstract directions.

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Yazz Ahmed – La Saboteuse (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 57:00 minutes | 658 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Naim Records

Bahraini-British performer, Yazz Ahmed, is transforming what jazz means in 2017. This trumpet and flugelhorn-playing artist has worked with Radiohead and These New Puritans, experiments with electronic effects, and combines sounds from her shared heritage to author a new narrative for the genre. Part of the new wave of artists credited with stirring up the sound, including Kamasi Washington, Yussef Kamaal, Sons of Kemet and The Comet is Coming, Yazz Ahmed is thrilled by the possibilities of making something new. “I feel like I’m a part of modernising jazz and connecting it with audiences today,” Yazz says. “It’s exciting.”

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