Photo: Lua Ribeira
HARRGA (“a burn” in the Moroccan Darija dialect) is a duo formed by producer and philosopher Miguel Prado and experimental vocalist and improviser Dali de Saint Paul. Mixing uncompromising poetics and politics in multiple languages, and deploying singular, amorphous noise design, they conjure an anomalous vision of contemporary industrial music. HARRGA’s critically acclaimed debut album Héroïques Animaux de la Misère (2019, Avon Terror Corps) was a meditation on the horror of border crossings, while their follow-up Femmes d’Intérieur (2020, Takuroku) explores violence towards women, pushing the boundaries of the form to deliver an unexpected cinematic drama. Following Dali’s appearance on Moor Mother’s Analog Fluids of Sonic Black Holes LP, Moor Mother released HARRGA’s track “Urban Blues” on her own label BlackMas5 Records.