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Nadeem Din-Gabisi - Wear (Official Video)

Photo Credit: Charlie Millar

UK concert, festival and arts promoter FORM are delighted to release the third single from their special new music programme: FutureFORM - an Arts Council supported initiative that seeks to help support and invest in musicians and the wider industry in new, creative ways while also shining a light on vital new developing talent.

Next up in the series is visual artist, filmmaker and poet Nadeem Din-Gabisi, whose new single ‘Wear’ is as funky and playful as it is sinister, proving Din-Gabisi to be an adventurous musician with a curiosity to match.

Nadeem Din-Gabisi on ‘Wear’“Songs are never linear processes and I would be lying if remember how 'Wear' emerged precisely but I do remember the first line… It came to me whilst in a fast food establishment with a friend. A homeless man was sat down and he had a fluorescent green radio by his feet. He dozed off as my friend and I were eating and was woken by the staff who wouldn't let him sleep. He could sit but not rest and his sitting was predicated on his purchase of half eaten fries.

“I began to think about how harsh Free Market Capitalism can be to people who slip through the net and how weak that net can be depending on the circumstances of your origin. Then the song spiralled into rumination’s on memories of the civil war in Sierra Leone witnessed via television sets and newspapers and the disturbing obsession with wealth and acquisition that has gripped anyone wanting to change their material circumstances.

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