HAMED SINNO POEMS OF CONSUMPTION
Sat, 08 Jul
|London
The iconic Lebanese-American indie-rock musician Hamed Sinno debuts their solo material for this year's Shubbak Festival.
Time & Location
08 Jul 2023, 19:30 – 21:30
London, Silk St, Barbican, London EC2Y 8DS, UK
About the event
Tickets: https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2023/event/hamed-sinno-poems-of-consumption
After leading up the most prominent indie-rock band of the Arab world Mashrou' Leila, the prodigious composer returns to the stage with a new project co-commissioned by Shubbak Festival and the Barbican.
Poems of Consumption is a literary song cycle that explores the resonances between Amazon-era consumerism, mental illness, unrequited love, and environmental collapse, without purporting to have an alternative or moral high-ground. It's a portrait of Nero, a desolate working-class melancholic crying at Whole Foods while the world outside comes to a boil. The compositions juxtapose the romanticism evoked by the sound of a string section, with hyper-industrial electronica created out of the sounds of consumerism (crumpling cellophane, bubble wrap, unboxing, ripping plastic) to swing between dancefloor & aural assault.