Political, urgent, powerful and intense: SAINT ABDULLAH & EOMAC create resistant, confrontational tracks that act as a pressure valve. Behind Saint Abdullah are Iranian-Canadian brothers Mohammad and Mehdi, who grew up in New York’s improviser music scene and now live between London and Tehran. Eomac is Irish producer, composer and DJ Ian McDonnell. What unites them is a pronounced rhythmic sensibility. While Eomac contributes visceral, forceful beats, Saint Abdullah launches samples and found sounds into the mix, charged by a diasporic consciousness in which questions of identity, memory and political urgency resonate. The samples become carriers of historical and cultural references, placing the sounds within a political context. The result is not over-conceptualised or cerebral; on the contrary, it is deeply sensual and gripping.
Saint Abdullah & Eomac will present their latest album, due to be released on Planet Mu in autumn.