Spring Colors Challenge - Day 5: Dark Cerulean*
Medieval Femme is the third LP from Kuwaiti musician Fatima Al Qadiri. Inspired by Arabesque melodies, it is an exercise in summoning the voices of women throughout the eons so that they may breathe their wisdom into the present day. Its sound and sensibility cut across a horizon that permeates the interstitial domain between night and day, death and life, blood and water, flesh and stone- melding these disparate destination points and states of being into a single continuum that defies the pretense of borders and the rake of the void. A fairytale without end, which depicts the contours of our reality as far more malleable and permissive than we could have imagined. An arrow through time whose arc bends towards an immediately attainable paradise.
*Every day in March I'm writing a fresh review of an LP inspired by a different color. I selected Medieval Femme because I wanted to write about an album that had the same mood as very dark shade of blue and Fatima Al Qadiri absolutely meets that criteria.
