Samia Bio
SAMIA
FARAH 'S BIOGRAPHY
this is her First record sleeve for a first album 1999.SAMIA FARAH is a French Tunisian singer/ song-writer, producer and designer who grew up in France... Her Father, a slightly eccentric human being, introduced her to music, movies,art litterature and sense of humour..... .. In 1999 Samia released an album for Sony France where she sings, plays Melodica,wrote and co-composed the whole album with Giovanny Delahunda( Aka Giovanny Adrien)
She was in this time very fond of jazz and reggae she wanted to work with jazz musicians and Andre Ceccarelli , Laurent de wilde are featured on this first highly acclaimed recording that she concieved..... She also invited the UK mixer and producer Adrian Sherwood to mix a few tracks .
Samia worked with musicians from many and different backgrounds .. such as Richard Dorfmeister(Austria) "Heidi Bruhel", Adrian Sherwood(U.K.) on his album "Becoming a Cliche" with her song "J'ai Change"... ( she also designed the record sleeve for this album.) Hiroshi Yamauchi. .. Samia has also done a duet with Lee Perry(Jamaica) "yellow tongue" ..on his new album "The mighty Upsetter".(a remix by Kode 9 has also been done of this song) she wrote the song ,recorded in Paris and gave him the track to have his opinion which that end on hos Lp.. .. Brasilian sound system Moa Ambessa... She has also recorded a track for Dj center (Brooklyn U.S.)"Tout passe".with a remix by dj Wajeed...and so on.
Samia's second album "The Many Moods Of..." has just been released (2009),it features 16 new tracks ... The sleeve for the album was made with collage references to Sophie Tauber-Arp. Samia studied Digital Media and design at the London College of the Art . She now lives in London ,and is preparing an Arabic dub album produced and composed by herself and Many other things as Travel DUMB images and video editing. She is since few years now films her travels around the world and concerts as ..(The slitsUK,Lee PerryUK,Puppetshow in Viet Nam,Cambodia Orphan house,Mutabaruka)..She also records Audio Dubs in Collography, collusion of audio foetus ..for non pregnant womEn the project is at its embryonic state.
In 2021 she wrote a novel
"Bangkok a ma table" and was plagiarized by à "journalist " name Lili-âne hassan that no body really knows... Using her détective skills, it appears that the novel was written by men who went thru 15 years of Samia Farah's work...
Including putting in words her visuals, stealing some of her songs etc... Gallimard, a publishing company known for their plagiarism is staying silence for now .
Samia Farah's is writing other novels and is dedicating her time to her filming and visual art ...
A suivre
In 2023 she was invited for 2 artists residency program to work on sculptures ,one in India Madhya Pradesh and the other one in Miyagi muséum of kokeshi dolls Japan , where she created 2 kokeshis inspired by charecters of the Japanese film maker Shinoda.
She has also recorder music with 2 japanese band..
She lives between the Uk and south eastAsia.
Samia
Farah is a French Tunisian singer/song-writer, producer and visual
artist who grew up
in
France.
She
studied digital Media and Design at the University of the Arts in London:
Her
work navigates between the real and the surreal exploring themes like
identities ,masks,Abstract dolls for abstract Women ,the aggressive
toxic mother ,hijack dolls s , the Ka or the double ,wounds and
Paraphernalia etc..
Her
work attempts to reveal the collision between worlds, cultures,
countries, faces, women hoods, habits,lies and truths.
Her
works aims to raise questions about identities,masks as they reveal
hidden forces ,assymetrical portraits of non westerner faces ,dolls
for 'Abstract dolls for abstract woman"
a serie of dolls that she
created and sewd entirely, a tool to reconciliate her non abilities
to live a normal social life and "la mere devorante' contruction of
motherhood and disfunctionning parenting, series of collages with
shinning flat pearls.
She uses herself as a subject adding masks or costumes that she creates
using
mixed media, raising questions about what is seen is it what we do
get? and vice versa..
Her
digital collages mixed with ''play mind child game '' illustrationadthat addd a
surrealistic taste to her art. She uses mainly posca and acrylics
,Oil pastels, ink..etc
SAMIA
FARAH started as an artist by recording music at the age of 18 ,
experimenting different kind of sounds, at the beginning her goals was
the written message.
-She
released her debut album for Sony France where she sings , plays and
write songs in French ,plays Melodica , co-composed and Produced the
album with Giovanny Delahunda her friend and colleague.
The french were not really at the 'rendez vous 'as we know French always had an issue with artists who are and do things outside the box. THe world mainly in the US has celebrate the iconic Album .
Adrian
Sherwood, the legendary UK engineer and producer lent his talents
mixing few tracks for this first album.
Samia Farah ’s
second album "The Many Moods Of..." SAMIA FARAH was
released in 2009, which she coproduced musically as she is the owner
of the Album rights too.
She
sang ,produced and designed the art cover for this album.
The
work with Sony staff was a desaster and were generally totally
ignorant of the music it self ,Samia Farah's concept and work .
She
wrote 'yellow tongue ' lyrics that she sangs
with the legendary producer LEE SCRATCH PERRY, she is also planning to work with Dennis Bovel for a EP.
During her world
travels, she has produced
a
short documentary, “Typical Girls,” about equality and perception
of women in the
Music
industry including the last interview of The Slits singer Ari before
she died of a breast cancer This doc also includes The legendary reggae producer
Dennis Bovel ,the poet Jean Binta Breeze etc...
She
also produced interviewed and filmed a short documentary about
Mutabaruka, the legendary Jamaican dub poet.
She
was Invited in Palestine and Mexico in the context of an artists in residency program.
After
travelling the world she created and made dolls, ABSTRACT DOLLS FOR
ABSTRACT WOMEN, Mosaics with a Tunisian flavor, assymetrical
portraits of around the world portraits.
She
is now writing a little booklet of poetry ,songs and a Play,she lived in the UK and in Bangkok .
