Saturday, October 11, 2025

Recording: Bilal Nasser

Artist: Bilal Nasser

Song: unknown*

Recorded at Sankofa Square (Intersection 2025: Day 2: All Day Music Marathon, August 30, 2025.

Bilal Nasser - unknown

Back from a year's hiatus, the Intersection Festival was once again bringing some unconventional sounds to the unsuspecting public. The now formally-retitled Sankofa Square sports a decolonized name, but a slightly more carceral vibe — surrounded by metal fencing and closed off by gates right up 'til showtime, there was less of a random just-wander-through sense of invitation than there used to be.

There was also a slightly different curatorial vibe in effect. In the absence of Burn Down the Capital's Tad Michalak, Andrew Noseworthy stepped up as the main programmer, giving the day a flavour that'd be familiar to those following people | places | records, the "DIY genre-fluid 'zero profit' artists-first" label he is involved with.

Windsor's Bilal Nasser brought some elegant classical guitar moves tempered with contemporary technological flourishes (loops, ambient pads) and some airy vox that would twist outward into some concrète/collage zones to provide a thorny edge and quietly-insistent political sensibility.

* Does anyone know the title to this one? Please leave a comment!

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