We started off the campaign for Chapter 2 with a bang by sharing the music video for Bara7a. We landed a superb feature on Under the Radar! Read the full lyrics before you dive in over here. The song follows +Aziz’s experiences as an adolescent in Kuwait, delving into one of the near-universal experiences of …
A heady sense of irreverence hangs over the debut album from Kuwaisiana, a US-based indie outfit led by Kuwaiti singer-songwriter +Aziz. The record’s wanton style-hopping and language-swapping has the sense not of willfully breaking the rules, but playfully bending them with a swagger and a smile. It may be no coincidence the band was born …
Kuwaisiana is a proudly bilingual project developed by +Aziz. Below are the tracks on our debut release, Chapter 1. You can listen to the development of the New Orleans sound across Chapter 2 and Chapter 3. For me, part of being Kuwaiti today means engaging with many potent thoughts with poetic confidence: xenophobia, censorship, money …