Antwerp native Younes Zarhoni has been consistently performing and making music for just about a decade now. His latest foray into transfixion-by-music is a study in quadraphonic vocals that is sculptural in scope and monastic in vibe. Austere incantations in Arabic are layered polyphonically, punctuated by silences that lean into the roaming rumination of these canticles. The result is blissful mindmelt, sonic immersions of a most contemplative order for closed eyes and wide open ears. His self-titled debut on KRAAK, out August 20, is a sparse, reflective condensation of this practice, with Zarhoni’s vocals weaving solemn melodic tapestries, the poetic mysticism of these verses punctuating empty space and settling like desert dust.

Instagram / Soundcloud / Website
Younes Zarhoni s/t on Bandcamp
Interview from KRAAK Fest 2023