uah - Releases
Let Death Live
A tribute to people – and a time of life perhaps – that we’ve lost, exploring the cycles of life & death, grief & joy, tautness & resolution, harmony & dissonance. The album is largely instrumental but includes uah's own vocals, exploring a choral format inspired in part by Missa Luba. Queen City Sounds & Art - 'Orchestral though somewhat forbidding...' // Acid Ted - 'Beatless but unflinchingly brutal'
Not Dreaming Anymore
- Ear To The Ground - 'captivating in its unconventionality'
- Tome To The Weather Machine - 'full of deliberately paced, mournful minor notes.'
- Schmutz - '...snow covered fields and smoke coming out of the chimneys of cottages. A contemplative composer experimenting by synth and candle light.'
- Rural Sounds - 'utterly gorgeous & absolutely mesmerizing.'
Only One
- OHESTEE - "uah took his time in crafting his new project... a cosmic voyage of time and space where our most cherished memories reside..."
- The Beat Forest - "melancholic piano chords built into the intros atmospheric appeal..."
- Electronic North - "a classy vibe going on here, utilising some retro sounds yet making the track sound fresh and modern..."
uah - Performances & Collaborations
SUPERMOMENTS - Coventry
Multi-channel audio composition for artist Ling Tan's performance, where dancers in public space carried wireless loudspeakers, generating an intricate spatialised audio experience as they weaved unpredictably through the crowds, and drawing the public's voices into the performance.
uah - Remixes
In Between (Kitchen Sink Mix)
By Last Mango in Paris, featuring Michelle Fainshtein, new mix/production by uah
Jetway (uah '369' Remix)
By Construction, remixed by uah - from the album SET / RE:SET, released in 2018
Biography
Composer & multi-instrumentalist 'uah' (aka Usman Haque), seamlessly connects the worlds of architecture and music. An accomplished interactive artist, he has created participatory audio-visual spectacles for the Singapore Biennale, the Dubai World Cup, London Fashion Week and Toronto's Nuit Blanche. But his musical journey sprang from tinkering on a piano as a child growing up in Washington DC, and mangling the family tape recorder.
His compositions fuse the experimental and the familiar, driven by influences as broad as Congolese Mass, Japanese noise and 60s Cuban cinema. uah explores intense emotional narratives to create cinematic, symphonic and dramatic landscapes of sound, using a maximalist approach that combines voice with digital, analog and acoustic instruments. He is currently experimenting with ways to engage members of the public using their own voices to drive collective experiences, including scoring artist Ling Tan's SUPERMOMENTS. The piece sees performers in public space employing vocal techniques from protest culture and carrying loudspeakers as they weave unpredictably through the crowds.
Now based in London, uah has released several EPs and singles over the last few years and his debut album, Let Death Live dropped in 2022, exploring the cycles of life & death, grief & joy, loss & acceptance.
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