qarînah is the solo noisey-trashbeat driven solo project of LA based multi-disciplinary artist Sin (fka Genital Quartz). This project draws from the memorial wells of pain, redemption, and the futures of their ancestors- transmuted into virility. An orgone accumulator of psychedelic amounts of grief. Everyday social miscommunications, paradigm breakdowns, technological failures, and the slow entropy of the empire become tools of cacophony for their farces. Their sexual and gender confusion do not obfuscate but alleviate the duality between the natural from the synthetic.
A qarînah or قرينه is an Egyptian spirit, most similar to a succubus, who visits its victims only in dreams. To this day it is said that men who are haunted by them find themselves exhausted upon awakening, having been deprived of any nourishment from rest. Much like jinn, they are invisible to all except those who possess the “second sight” (often a cat, dog, or other household pet). The only way to be freed from one may be achieved through ritual to appeal the god(s) for divine protection and intervention. Every performance is a spell for the collective liberation of what’s left of humanity and the complete annihilation of white supremacy.