Lafawndah
musician and multidisciplinary artist

With an Iranian mother and Egyptian father, Lafawndah is a French-born, Paris-based musician and multidisciplinary artist. Since her beginnings, she has pursued an in-depth research into devotional pop, with a career path as unpredictable as her compositional style. Having lived and worked in New York, Teheran, New Delhi, Mexico and London, Lafawndah now lives and works in Paris. She continues to cultivate an aesthetic of displacement for herself and for her work, which is deeply mutant and collaborative, and which she imagines as a new musical continent on the margins of East and West. Her musical performances have been presented at the Théâtre du Châtelet, the Venice Biennale for the French Pavilion, the Barbican, the Southbank Center in London, the Fondation Cartier in Paris and Haus Der Kunst in Berlin, among others. 

After a debut EP released on the renowned English label Warp in 2016, and a debut album on the German label k7! in 2019, Lafawndah will release her second album The Fifth Season in 2020 on the Parisian label Latency, in which she explores the collective dimension of ritual and the healing powers of repetitive music. Influenced as much by Egyptian zar, traditional Indian music and gnaoua as by the totems of American minimalist music such as Steve Reich and Monte Young, Lafawndah opens a new chapter in her artistic work with this album, collaborating with artists from diverse horizons, such as tuba player Theon Cross, French rapper Lala &ce, visual artists Marguerite Humeau and Laure Prouvost, Japanese ambient master Midori Takada and many others.