Electronic artist Zeerak Ahmed broke barriers in her native Pakistan before moving to Cleveland. The musician's new album under the Slowspin moniker explores the immigrant experience and fuses traditional vocals with technological soundscapes.
It is close to 8 pm in Karachi, Pakistan and nearly 11 am in Cleveland, USA. Zeerak Ahm-ed – who goes by the stage name Slowspin, and is considered a treasured artist as a major contributor to the counterculture movement in Karachi for at least a.
The Pakistan-born, U.S.-based musician draws on the migrant’s deep well of loss and longing, weaving traditional South Asian musical forms into lushly textured folk, ambient, and dream pop.