In this podcast an artist, Fai Ahmed, as a part of her residency-mentorship program at Slavs and Tatars, invites a music researcher Amal Mohammed to reflect on Saudi underground music.

While Fai Ahmed talks about her new research, which explores the realm of the local underground music scene and its intricate ties to cultural memory and Hauntology. Together with Amal Mohammed they talk about the historical and social context of the underground recordings, delve into an era when sharing these recordings was rebellious and intolerable and share the echoes of suppressed voices and unconventional melodies that shaped culture and challenged norms in the region.

The residency and the podcast is supported by Art Jameel and Goethe-Institut Saudi Arabia part of a three years collaboration with Slavs and Tatars to support young practitioners from Saudi Arabia.