More than 600,000 revellers descended on Riyadh this past weekend for Soundstorm, the largest music festival in the Arab world.
Hosted by the music entertainment company Mdlbeast, Soundstorm has grow since it first debuted in 2019, contributing 118.5m to the Saudi economy and creating 16,000 jobs. Each year, the festival greets artists and audiences from around the world, this year’s headliners included Bruno Mars, David Guetta, and Peggy Gou.
For many Saudis and those in the wider region, it’s the event of the year. Omar, 25, described it as an “oasis of freedom” and spoke excitedly about seeing DJ Khaled on Friday night; one of several artists returning to the festival, welcomed back by a crowd that knows how to have a good time.
Like Burning Man in Nevada, Soundstorm reinvents the landscape in which it is rooted, bringing the desert to life. The energy in Riyadh this weekend was electric: boys...
Hosted by the music entertainment company Mdlbeast, Soundstorm has grow since it first debuted in 2019, contributing 118.5m to the Saudi economy and creating 16,000 jobs. Each year, the festival greets artists and audiences from around the world, this year’s headliners included Bruno Mars, David Guetta, and Peggy Gou.
For many Saudis and those in the wider region, it’s the event of the year. Omar, 25, described it as an “oasis of freedom” and spoke excitedly about seeing DJ Khaled on Friday night; one of several artists returning to the festival, welcomed back by a crowd that knows how to have a good time.
Like Burning Man in Nevada, Soundstorm reinvents the landscape in which it is rooted, bringing the desert to life. The energy in Riyadh this weekend was electric: boys...
- 12/7/2022
- by William Hosie
- The Independent - Music
Docu-tribute to club hero offers uncritical praise but also tells an intriguing history of electronic dance music since the 80s
In the teeming, highly diverse cinematic habitat of music documentaries, there are surprisingly few about the phylum of electronic dance music and its many sub-classes, orders and colourful creatures. There are some: films about scenes such as the late 80s/early 90s rave movement or specific clubs such as Sub Berlin: History of Tresor. There are others about specific superstar DJs such as the slick, very commercial Leave the World Behind, a tribute to Swedish House Mafia, or Villalobos, a mesmeric, arthouse portrait of Ricardo Villalobos. This docu-tribute to French-born DJ-composer Laurent Garnier lies tonally somewhere between the latter two. It offers fairly uncritical praise for Garnier’s artistry and is built around extensive interviews with the man himself, who is admittedly very articulate and informative; but there is also...
In the teeming, highly diverse cinematic habitat of music documentaries, there are surprisingly few about the phylum of electronic dance music and its many sub-classes, orders and colourful creatures. There are some: films about scenes such as the late 80s/early 90s rave movement or specific clubs such as Sub Berlin: History of Tresor. There are others about specific superstar DJs such as the slick, very commercial Leave the World Behind, a tribute to Swedish House Mafia, or Villalobos, a mesmeric, arthouse portrait of Ricardo Villalobos. This docu-tribute to French-born DJ-composer Laurent Garnier lies tonally somewhere between the latter two. It offers fairly uncritical praise for Garnier’s artistry and is built around extensive interviews with the man himself, who is admittedly very articulate and informative; but there is also...
- 7/12/2022
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
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