Since the release of her debut album, Ahwar, the singer and producer Nadah El Shazly has become a pillar of the Egyptian underground—in 2018, she appeared on the cover of the British music magazine, The Wire, in an issue announcing “Cairo’s New Wave.” The musician’s eclectic background, encompassing choirs, punk rock, and electronic music, prepared her for the electroacoustic reimagining of Arabic classical music that’s inherent to her work, exploring new sonic and harmonic frontiers. June 2025 saw the release of her long awaited studio album, Laini Tani لاقيني تاني, via One Little Independent Records. Backing up her release with extensive worldwide touring, Nadah has been featured in many local and international festivals including Roskilde, Primavera, Big Ears, and many more.
In 2024, she released the experimental noise album Pollution Opera with Welsh producer Elvin Brandhi. Facing hell in full defiance, their nine-track album covers the spectrum of electroacoustic fragments and vocalization, suspended between the roar of engines, evocative intonations and guttural retching.
Nadah is also known for her soundtrack work. In 2022 she scored the film Les Damnés ne pleurent pas and won the Best Original Music award at the Bordeaux International Independent Film Festival and at the Dublin International Film Festival. In the last year she also scored Last Party in R. Desert! by Mahmoud Sabbagh, and To a Land Unknown by Mahdi Fleifel.
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