Mayssa Jallad Trio (LB) + Civilistjävel! | INKONST
Schedule
Thu, 09 Apr, 2026 at 08:00 pm
UTC+02:00Location
Inkonst | Malmö, SN
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200/250:-20-22, on stage 20:30
History bleeds into melody in the hands of Mayssa Jallad. With Marjaa: The Battle of the Hotels, she transforms Beirut’s brutal past into a resonant, living archive of song and resistance.
Singer, songwriter, and trained architect, Mayssa Jallad weaves urban memory, political critique, and intimate storytelling into a singular musical language. Rooted in Arabic folk traditions but unafraid to experiment, her work unfolds where soft acoustic textures collide with the weight of structural collapse — both literal and metaphorical. She treats the city like a score, buildings like verses, and silence like a battleground.
Whether fronting indie band Safar or excavating Beirut’s war-scarred history in Marjaa, Jallad’s voice carries a rare clarity: plaintive, unflinching, and luminous with purpose. She crafts songs that speak across generations — offering post-war youth a mirror to the violence they inherited and a language for reclaiming what was lost.
Her artistry lives in the margins — between architecture and folk, memory and resistance, research and emotion. Recent collaborations, such as with shadowy Swedish producer Civilistjävel!, reveal a growing reach into more abstract and atmospheric terrains, where Arabic vocal lineage meets post-industrial ambience. It's not just music — it’s a re-mapping of Beirut’s psychic terrain.
Support: Civilistjävel!
He works in gradients of frost and sub-bass, where rhythm thins into atmosphere and silence carries its own pressure. Civilistjävel! shapes climates rather than club tracks — austere, dub-leaning sound worlds suspended between tension and release.
Under the alias Civilistjävel!, Tomas Bodén has, since 2018, built a quietly formidable catalogue of LPs and tapes, many landing via Glasgow’s FELT imprint. His practice drifts through ambient, minimal techno, and dub, sidestepping fixed structures in favor of patient repetition and negative space; pulses blur, tones hover, and low frequencies glow like distant machinery across the High Coast of Sweden.
Recent collaborations have widened the aperture: Brödföda (2024) introduced outside voices into his carefully rationed minimalism, including Lebanese composer Mayssa Jallad, whose presence brought a fragile luminosity to the project’s shadowed core. In 2025, their dialogue continued with Marjaa: The Battle of the Hotels (Versions) — Jallad’s material refracted through cavernous bass weight and vaporous atmospheres, stretching song into something porous and immersive. Subdued yet magnetic, his work lingers long after it fades, a study in reduction that feels quietly radical.
RIYL: Charif Megarbane, Youmna Saba, Tamer Abu Ghazaleh, Yasmine Hamdan, Alternative Arabic folk, Vladislav Delay, Basic Channel, Space Afrika, Perila, Urban sonic cartography, Architectural songwriting, Post-war memorywork, Acoustic resistance.
Concert included in the SS26 season pass! https://secure.tickster.com/5vmn7ynvgjj79gj
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Where is it happening?
Inkonst, Bergsgatan 29, SE-214 22 Malmö, Sverige, Malmö, SwedenEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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