Filastine & Nova are a multimedia duo working to undermine borders. Their music collides electronic beat production with dense layers of voice, concréte sounds, analogue synths and strings. Spin Magazine calls it “bass music for crumbling urban futures,” and Pitchfork says “they sound less like ‘world’ music and more like music from another world.” Another world is exactly what they aim to create, using sound, video, design, and dance to express a radically different vision of the possible.

Together they create fearless interventions: an official mixtape for The Act of Killing documentary, a sound swarm at the Paris Climate Summit, a performance in the Calais Jungle migrant camp, & a video series profiling dances of emancipation from work. Their last full-length album, Drapetomania, combined psychedelic trap, tropical post-folk, and a punk ethos to chart new musical territory.

Filastine & Nova are foremost performing artists, their live show is where sound, image, and ideas are embodied. They’ve toured the five continents, appearing at festivals such as Sonar (Spain), Downtown Cairo Arts (Egypt), Decibel (US), Les Vieilles Charrues (France), Foreign Affairs (Germany), Mutek (Japan), and Mona Foma (Australia).

In 2019 the duo abandoned the music industry, the west, and land itself, to launch Arka Kinari, a 70-ton sailing ship that transforms into a stage. Arka Kinari is not just a floating performance, it is also a futurist experiment that prefigures artistic life after fossil capitalism, reaching the world's most remote peoples and seas. Since its inception, Arka Kinari has voyaged to over twenty countries, spent five years plying the trade winds of the Indonesian Archipelago and is now sailing west towards the Mediterranean, reversing the routes and the intentions of colonialism, with culture as its cargo.