German trio Carl Gari (Jonas Yamer, Till Funke and Jonas Friedlich) and the Egyptian singer and trumpeter Abdullah Miniawy have been working together for the last couple of years, melding sobering electronic soundscapes with poetic lyrics reflecting the mood of modern day Egypt. Coming together first on ‘Darraje’, which was recorded over a few days in Cairo for Will Bankhead’s The Trilogy Tapes, the EP pulsates at the edge of the dancefloor with swollen atmospherics and Miniawy singing plaintively in Arabic. Their current release for AD93 centres around the poem in ‘B’aj بعاج’, featuring Miniawy as the protagonist who has jumped from the 8th floor of a building in Cairo and describing scenes of Egyptian society as he falls. It’s a powerful conceit and evocative sonic portrait of Egyptians living under the brutal oppression of the Al-Sisi regime.