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QUEEN OF HEAVEN (feat. Elina al Badri)

from They Dance in the Dark by RENU

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►Queen of Heaven is an EPIC, pulsating, asphyxiating electronic odyssey with majestic Oriental influenced strings .The music features a voiceover of dancer Elina Al Badri from Iraq. In Queen of Heaven Elina recites a common Iraqi poem on "the beauty of long hair" and in her own words: "the fundamental essence of Iraqi dance is long hair", combined with her powerful statement "Berlin? It is the same, exactly like Baghdad".
Renu met Elina during a drag show in Neukölln, Berlin. Salma - who performs in RENU´s `Always You´ and Elina had already been friends since Elina´s arrival in Berlin in 2015, where she seeks asylum.

►Queen of Heaven is 2nd single from album THEY DANCE IN THE DARK:

Imagine a party, where Gary Numan is married to The Orb, who is slow dancing with Massive Attack, while Oum Kalthoum French kissing Prince and finally, Daphne Oram is mixing the drinks. THEY DANCE IN THE DARK largely references 80’s & 90’s electronic dance music. The height of hooky, dark electronic anthems with an underlying post-colonial narrative.Two years on and off in the Holykuti Studios, produced in London, Berlin & Beirut with singers & performers from Ireland, Iraq, Pakistan, UK & Lebanon, They Dance in the Dark first started as an experiment. Realising her true introversion RENU worked through mainly the computer and the philosophy of playing Tablas in mind: creating big & infinite sounds with a minimum set up.

THEY DANCE IN THE DARK is RENU´s personal imprint as a weird queer femme in a weird queer world.

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In Queen of Heaven Elina recites a common Iraqi poem on "the beauty of long hair" and in her own words: "the fundamental essence of Iraqi dance is long hair", combined with her powerful statement "Berlin? It is the same, exactly like Baghdad".

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from They Dance in the Dark, track released September 9, 2017
released September 8, 2017
Music by Renu
Voice Elina al Badri

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RENU Berlin, Germany

RENU
(Renu Hossain)
Producer, Composer, Percussionist (Tabla, Cajon, Latin) & Curator.
Composing for theatre, film, dance, hosting her own nights, Percussionist for artists such as Grace Jones etc.
RENU is currently producing Filmy Electronica & Experimental impressions. 2022/2023 brings a plethora of new work, including a percussion/electronic focused EP.
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