Review: Fatima Al Qadiri returns to Hyperdub with a suite inspired by the classical poems of Arab women. Medieval Femme invokes a simulated daydream through the metaphor of an Islamic garden, at the border between depression and desire, where the present temporarily dissolves, leaving only past and future. It follows the two landmark albums she's already released with Hyperdub in Brute and Asiatisch, with Medieval Femme exemplifying poetry of Arab women from the medieval period in a vision the label describes as Fatima seeking to transport the listener to a place of reverie and desolation - and to rejoice in celestial sorrow.
