Very appropriate!” laughs Fatima Al-Qadiri from Berlin as police sirens punctuate our conversation. The Senegal-born, Kuwait-raised, occasional American resident released her second album, Brute, this spring. Visceral and thought-provoking, it is a tribute to those on the frontline of protests around the globe and explores ideas pertaining to authority, the facade of democracy in a neoliberal age, and relationships of power between the police and civilians with…
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