With a foundation in DIY punk, noise, avant jazz, electronic music, and hip-hop, the music of prolific percussionist, sound manipulator, and visual artist NAH is a mutant concoction of sounds. In some songs, NAH’s playful chopped sampledelia takes the crooning joyous sounds of gospel, disco, and funk and turns them into noisy, syllabic, rhythmic opuses of experimental electronics. In others, distorted synthesisers sizzle under NAH’s grizzly programmed and live drums, offering up demoniac tracks that urge the body to move. The first single from his forthcoming album Totally Recalled (2024) – which he presents as a special live A/V performance at Rewire 2024 – is a energetic, percussive, and Baltimore-club-infused reconstruction a gospel classic, slabbered with NAH’s unique percussive touch. Totally Recalled promises to be a warped consideration through sound and visuals of the confusion, disconnection, narcissism, anxiety, and fear inherent to modern western experience. Live, NAH performs with a minimal set up featuring no more than a drum kit and various samplers, a performance style which brings the urgency of his music to the fore.

The presentation of this work was made possible thanks to the support of Flemish Arts Centre de Brakke Grond, VierNulVier & STUK.