{"id":8961,"date":"2026-01-14T09:41:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T07:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ment.si\/?post_type=artist&#038;p=8961"},"modified":"2026-01-20T12:17:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T10:17:42","slug":"youniss","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/ment.si\/en\/artist\/youniss\/","title":{"rendered":"Youniss"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\n<div id=\"content-text-block-block_7bf109c0453ac7a9eafb18daf2d07283\" class=\"content-text-block\">\r\n    <p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cAvant-pop that refuses to obey genre lines.\u201d<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clashmusic.com\/news\/youniss-petite-noir-align-on-gits-worse\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Robin Murray, Clash<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\r\n\r\n<div id=\"content-text-block-block_bf259501a42775354521e271d9869cf8\" class=\"content-text-block\">\r\n    <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Multidisciplinary artist Youniss Ahamad, like a quantum particle, resists categorization and predictability. His live performances have earned him a reputation as a musical firebrand, blending post-punk, hip-hop, and noise. His unique path through the Belgian underground is shaped by his ancestral roots in C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire and Iraq. On his upcoming record, he steps out from behind the distortion to explore the full range of his voice. An ode to the modern city and a clarion call against gentrification, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Good Effort!<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> marks a turn toward jazz <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2013 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">a chimeric fusion reminiscent of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To Pimp a Butterfly<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">-era Kendrick, Flying Lotus, and Slauson Malone.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Supported by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/liveurope.eu\/\">Liveurope<\/a>. Liveurope is co-financed by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1305\" src=\"https:\/\/ment.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Live-Europe.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"47\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9290\" src=\"https:\/\/ment.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/EN-Co-funded-by-the-EU_BLACK-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"52\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ment.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/EN-Co-funded-by-the-EU_BLACK-1.png 1023w, https:\/\/ment.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/EN-Co-funded-by-the-EU_BLACK-1-872x182.png 872w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":632,"featured_media":8927,"parent":0,"template":"","country":[96],"genre":[65,39,41],"location":[615],"class_list":["post-8961","artist","type-artist","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","genre-hip-hop","genre-jazz","genre-post-punk"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ment.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist\/8961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ment.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ment.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artist"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ment.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ment.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ment.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ment.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=8961"},{"taxonomy":"genre","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ment.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/genre?post=8961"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ment.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=8961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}