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ABOUT
Endowed with voice, melody, and word, Tamara Qaddoumi’s artful music offers harmonic vocal layering, galactic synths…
ENGLISH
Endowed with voice, melody, and word, Tamara Qaddoumi’s artful music offers harmonic vocal layering, galactic synths, expressive drums and idiosyncratic guitar riffs, embracing the conflicting dynamics inherent in electronics.
FRENCH
Une voix, des mélodies et des mots, la musique de Tamara Qaddoumi mêle habilement superposition vocale harmonique, synthés galactiques, batterie expressive et riffs de guitare idiosyncrasique, reflétant la dynamique conflictuelle inhérente à la musique électronique.
Qaddoumi’s hybrid Kuwaiti, Palestinian, Lebanese and Scottish upbringing weaves conscious questions and discoveries around…
ENGLISH
Endowed with voice, melody, and word, Tamara Qaddoumi’s artful music offers harmonic vocal layering, galactic synths, expressive drums and idiosyncratic guitar riffs, embracing the conflicting dynamics inherent in electronics.
Qaddoumi’s hybrid Kuwaiti, Palestinian, Lebanese and Scottish upbringing weaves conscious questions and discoveries around identity and belonging into her repertoire. Traveling through complex melodic arrangements, her lyrics oscillate between desire and observation. Since 2018, she has released two EPs, been featured in Marie Claire, Vogue, and Bazaar, and has regularly graced Lebanon's stages with her tightly-knit band of stellar musicians.
FRENCH
Une voix, des mélodies et des mots, la musique de Tamara Qaddoumi mêle habilement superposition vocale harmonique, synthés galactiques, batterie expressive et riffs de guitare idiosyncrasique, reflétant la dynamique conflictuelle inhérente à la musique électronique.
Tamara Qaddoumi amalgame ses cultures koweïtienne, palestinienne, libanaise et écossaise et soulève dans son répertoire des questions profondes, des découvertes autour de l'identité et de l'appartenance. Voyageant à travers des arrangements mélodiques complexes, ses textes oscillent entre désir et observation. Depuis 2018, elle a sorti deux albums, a figuré dans Marie Claire, Vogue et Bazaar, et s’est régulièrement produite dans les scènes libanaises avec son groupe de musiciens hors du communs.
Since 2018, she has released two EPs, been featured in Marie Claire, Vogue, and Bazaar, and has regularly graced Lebanon’s stages…
Sober
On the first single from her upcoming LP, ‘The Murmur’, Qaddoumi navigates the tenebrous waters of battling excess with lyrical locomotion.
‘Sober’ oscillates like a heartbeat of broken beauty and poise, bathed by a frenzied deluge of guitars and feedback.
Sorry Signal
‘Sorry Signal’ is the artist’s appeal to signs of life, a tempestuous inquest into an emptiness that pleads for any hint of what might remain – be it hope, truth, or ruin.
In the title track from her upcoming EP, ‘Sorry, Signal’, Qaddoumi oscillates between a finely cadenced beat and shimmering, diaphanous vocals that crescendo to dissolve into a buoyant dirge, submerged in sea of synths.
Over Fire
In a desolate world haunted by the specter of loss, Tamara Qaddoumi beckons to the fragments of those that remain and treads the delicate line between grief and abandon.
A rhythmic trance of industrial beats drives a sludgy, slightly dissonant drone of synths, punctuated by hypnotic torrents of Qaddoumi’s melancholic vocals and harmonies.
COLD IN THE MOURNING
With “Cold in the Mourning”, Tamara Qaddoumi takes the listener on an exploration of the many faces of loss, lost innocence and the artist’s encounters with the ever-elusive, shape-shifting nature of bereavement. Driven by Qaddoumi’s spectral vocal delivery and sprawling, synth-drenched melodies, the track weaves the threads of its poignant narrative into a powerful, vivid reminder of our daily struggles with grief and the experience of living with and, ultimately, being transformed by it.
Under the Knife
“Under the Knife,” the debut single off Tamara Qaddoumi’s forthcoming EP, Sorry, Signal, explores the universal experience of mortality. Its ethereal vocals, resonating bass, subdued guitars, and slow-train drums create an atmosphere akin to discovering how to breathe underwater. Rather than evading the sensation of drowning, embracing the inevitable with a grace allows life to shimmer with enchantment.
The track seeks to transcend fear of the unknown, yet a current of melancholy remains in the undertow. As the track reaches crescendo, surrender to the profound spectrum of emotion becomes a triumph in itself. What lies ahead is not bound by time—it’s a journey faster than time itself, an exploration of the boundless mysteries beyond.
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Sorry Signal
Tamara’s upcoming EP Sorry Signal can be seen as a rumination on death. The four track album gives a sleek cold-pop sound rife with emotional articulations, highlighting the complex dynamic between man and machine. Inspired by hospital environments, cold and sterile atmospheres are animated with suggestive guitars, emphatic synths, and heady lyrics. The album processes death and grief through its electronics, synthesizing silver linings and graceful insights to arrive at a certain peace.
SOFT GLITCH
Created primarily during lockdown with an intimate set of musicians, the EP’s expressive drums drive the harmonic vocal layering, galactic synths, and idiosyncratic guitar riffs, embracing the glitching dynamics inherent in electronics.
Traveling through complex melodic arrangements, weaving coils of desire and observation, the trip-hop EP Soft Glitch explores the flawed circuits of emotion and creation.
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