Use Knife
“Instead of merely collecting and layering influences from the East and the West, they coalesce the disparate cultural and artistic strains into new expressions that belong to both worlds but are bound to neither of them.”
Antonio Poscic, The Quietus
Use Knife is a new musical outfit in which Saif Al-Qaissy, Stef Heeren and Kwinten Mordijck unleash their love for analog and modular electronic machinery, invoke fierce Arabic percussion grooves and sermon vocal energies. Use Knife coincides Western underground music with traditional Arab music culture into a genuine melting pot. Their music is composed around propulsive electronic rhythms, ricocheting sequenced melodies and samples and vibrant Arabic drum rhythms. Use Knife is the trio’s musical vehicle to explore and express hallucinatory free-thinking visions to contemporary global living.