◊ Use Knife
◊ East meets West in industrial electronic global beats
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Use Knife is the exciting result of the raw synergy between Iraqi vocalist and percussionist Saif Al-Qaissy—who fled war-torn Iraq—and Belgian musicians Kwinten Mordijck and Stef Heeren, known for their passion for analog synths and organic wind instrumentation. As Al-Qaissy's Arabic vocals shape the contours of poetic imagery from his past, fierce synth sequences, distorted samples, and heavy Arabic percussion render their politically charged tracks emotively captivating and sonically disruptive.
The band tell a necessary tale of freedom, responsibility and the gulf between the Eastern and Western mindset. Even the instrumentation itself reflects this constant friction; intuitively muddling distorted industrial textures and jerky EBM pulses with brittle Iraqi rhythms and tonalities, Use Knife devise their own distinct harmony against the dissonant global backdrop.
Use Knife’s debut album 'The Shedding of Skin' was released in September 2022 by VIERNULVIER records and received critical acclaim by The Quietus, Mixmag and Knack Focus among others. In the wake of this record they played all over Europe and Canada at festivals such as Le Guess Who?, Sonic City, Videodroom, Grauzone, Botanique, Worm, Wrong Fest, Roadburn, Suoni Per Il Populo, Wave-Gotik-Treffen and We Are Open among others.
More than a mere meeting of cultures from Eastern and Western backgrounds, their new album ‘État Coupable’ (March 2025) is a genuine fusion of culture and politics that merges each of the three band members’ skills in profoundly new ways. The album is mixed by Jerusalem in My Heart's Radwan Ghazi Moumneh, who also created the contrasting ambient 2nd part of the title track, while New York based engineer Heba Kadry (Ryuichi Sakamoto, Nicolás Jaar) handles the mastering. Nihiloxica’s drummer Spooky-J, also laid down a post punk beat on first single ‘Freedom, Asshole’.
Known for their attention to detail at every level—from sound color to live performance and video — Use Knife have been collaborating with multidisciplinary artist Youniss Ahamad, who crafted a distinct visual language for the band. Alongside music videos and artwork that evoke rawness through direct and distorted imagery, he has also developed scenography and visuals that truly enhance their live show, creating “an all-embracing vortex that allows those experiencing it to plunge, headfirst, into a hypnotic state that veers between a dreamlike trance and a sensual workout.” (The Quietus)
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