El Kontessa

Cairo-based producer, DJ and multidisciplinary artist 💋 Nos Habet Caramel, El Kontessa’s debut album, brings together 7 sample-heavy, beat-driven tracks with accelerating polyrhythms, echoing Mahraganat percussion, vocal hits, bursts of synths and fragments from Cairo’s sonic landscape. Bringing together her production and experience as a DJ, El Kontessa navigates those two worlds seamlessly, creating a condensed and shorter DJ-like structure with every track. Like the artwork, illustrated by El Kontessa herself, the album takes on slippery shapeshifting forms that seem to dissipate just as they solidify. The sounds of “Nos Habet Caramel” are oversaturated, entangled yet fluid, carrying in them a sense of longing that is constantly disrupted and changing.