Ninety Nine Eyes by Yunis - Drowned By Locals [DBL33LP]

Ninety Nine Eyes

Yunis

A 2 track electronic album (31m 15s) — released April 11th 2025 on Drowned By Locals

#electronic #dance

Egyptian composer YUNIS' Ninety Nine Eyes is a work that exists outside time—equally at home in the temples of antiquity and the neon-lit voids of speculative futures. This double-sided LP (Part I and Part II, 15:14 / 16:03) merges ceremonial percussion, interstellar synthwaves, and wordless incantations into a 31-minute ritual for the infinite.

Born from a three-year metamorphosis between studio and stage—and rooted in a Takhmira (a Zar ritual poem)—Ninety Nine Eyes channels the archetypal quest: a search for "the land where light is seated." Its soundscapes evoke the grandeur of forgotten civilizations and the hum of celestial machinery: droning mizmar lines and drowning tombak and duff rhythms dissolve into maximalist synth storms; choirs of phantom voices rise like starlight through the static of ages.

Structured like a Sufi Hadra, the LP's undulating peaks pull at old ways of communing with the divine. Part I builds tension—a breath before the storm—while Part II erupts into unfettered synth-drenched trance, gates flung open. Only the listener can close the circle through their own interpretation.

الأرض دي اللي كرسيها نور بتوجد فين؟
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Notable Collaborators:
Mastered by Heba Kadry (Björk, Ryuichi Sakamoto) and mixed by VII, Ninety Nine Eyes is both a ceremonial artifact and a prophecy. Its visual world—crafted by Kafrawy (photography), Alaa Eideh (hand-sewn 99-eye costume), and Countersubject (graphic design)—mirrors the music's duality, where light and shadow collide.


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Composition, arrangement, and production: YUNIS
Mixing: VII
Mastering: Heba Kadry, NY

Art Direction and Costume Design: Alaa Eideh
Graphic Design: Countersubject
Photography: Kafrawy

DBL33LP
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Long-form cosmic percussive pieces from Egyptian composer YUNIS' on Drowned By Locals. - Boomkat

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