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Ratiba Ayadi - For Those Who See Us ft. Silent Songstress

from Saffron Artists 2021​-​22 by Saffron Records

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3. Ratiba Ayadi - For Those Who See Us ft. Silent Songstress [Location: Phoenix Wharf]


“This soundscape draws on the textural qualities in architecture and water’s allure to excavate histories of the Harbour. Bristol is a city of dampened histories and souls. To speculate on the water - like fire - is to call on primitive processes of contemplation. We look to water for reflection. The polyphony of voice between Ratiba Ayadi and the Silent Songstress calls on the bridge between the ancestral and the present. They who sing to the waters open visually muted portals of darkness that host space for spiritual study. Generational voices that were lost in the materialisation of this site, are recognised and called upon in this moment of reflection and sonic interrogation. The track process began by excavating sound from old video footage taken in the Bristol Harbour area of Phoenix Wharf. Having lived there during the pandemic, I came to listen to the silence of the area. The silence in the architecture enabled me to read histories and hear remnants of being, unclear and distant but hollowing and dark. The track began lyrically as an investigation into bridging the gap for alternate worlds. I sampled sounds that fall into the dark history of my heritage. My ancestor’s histories were lost and diluted as they moved through generations. Leaving me in the dark. I have learned how to look in the dark sonically for connections with ancestral knowledge - using sound design and composing invisible sonic structures and sampling and transposing sonic moments with those said to be in my heritage.” - Ratiba Ayadi

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from Saffron Artists 2021​-​22, released May 3, 2022

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