Youniss

VIERNULVIER

Thu 07.05

19:30 - 22:45

BALZAAL

Antwerp-based multi-disciplinary artist Youniss Ahamad operates much like a quantum particle, constantly resisting categorization and knowability. Expect a rebellious combination of post-punk, hip hop and noise.

Youniss’ unique path in the Belgian underground has been influenced by his ancestral roots in Cote D’Ivoire and Iraq. His experience growing up in the Antwerp suburbs as a Black person with an Arabic name inspired 2023’s White Space – marking a shift from cerebral dance music to distorted, experimental storytelling.

If one thing is consistent about Youniss, it’s his knack for breaking with expectation in a way that expands the field of sonic possibility.

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Youniss Ahamad explores the art of holding you with intensity. In a way that cannot be expressed in time…

– Luminous Dash

Adel Setta

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Each subsequent record has seen Youniss shift his sound. White Space was an outburst of electric guitar, spitfire vocals, and barbed breakbeats. Do We Try Beyond The Edge? continued in this vein, sharpening his lyrical bite against the colonial structures that still pervade everyday life in Belgium. On his upcoming record Youniss steps out from behind the distortion, exploring the full range of his voice. An ode to the modern city and a clarion call against gentrification, Good Effort! marks yet another musical turn toward jazz, a chimeric combination of To Pimp A Butterfly-era Kendrick, Flying Lotus, and Slauson Malone.