Nene H - Gebet

Consolidating critically acclaimed live performances at Berlin Atonal in 2019 and CTM Festival in 2020, earlier this year Nene H released her debut album Ali علي, a deeply personal reflection on loss and identity. Constructed as a tribute to her late father, the record sees the artist born Beste Aydin coming to terms with the diverse array of influences from her birthplace of Istanbul and her adopted homes of Berlin and Copenhagen, as well as documenting the process of reconciling her experiences as a Middle Eastern woman with a Muslim upbringing with a more Westernized arts and music scene. Drawing from her background as a classically-trained pianist, as well as her head-spinning DJ sets at Berghain in Berlin, Possession in Paris and her residency at Copenhagen’s buzzy Endurance party, Nene H combines atmospheric ambience and haunting choral passages with hard and fast percussion and ecstatic synthesis, manifesting sonically a duality of tension and release, pitting traditional forms