Architect of Truth
Architect of Truth

cairo / electrojazz / santa fe / postrock / space music / retrowave / progressive / art rock / progressive rock / experimental rock / vaporwave / synthwave / rock / electronic

"Hail Djehuty, Architect of Truth, give me words of power that I might write the story of my own becoming!" -- Normandi Ellis

"Architect of Truth" is about navigating midlife. It explores reconciling with one's past, transcending limitations, and embracing lack. “Failing again, failing better,” as Beckett says. Originally titled "Being Twisted / Thinking Whizkid," the album reflects on the struggle of being a divided subject between the body's physical constraints, especially due to chronic back issues, and the seemingly unbounded nature of the mind. As an Egyptian composer living in the United States, I am deeply passionate about producing music, for the aesthetic experience of sonic jouissance heals and sublimates one’s suffering and pain, leaving sonic traces that mark the traumatic Real. I resonate with Frank Zappa's sentiment that “music is the best,” for the musical act transcends the limitations of the body, becoming a conduit for translating ideas and affects into the material form of sonic sculptures that evoke desire in listeners.