SHCAA

Sacha Alexandre Khalifé aka Shcaa is a French-Lebanese artist and composer based in Paris. He works with guitar, fragments of environmental recordings and digital processing.

His expression inhabits a space where blues-informed improvisation meets the patience of electroacoustic composition. While proficient within electronic composition systems — granular attention to sound, unhurried studio practice, autonomy of process — Shcaa's voice could be defined as organic, even naturalistic, and is nourished by a wide inheritance of musical traditions, past and present. His approach is shaped by a poetic sensibility and relies on the correspondances between sound and image to structure a dense and personal language. Recurring themes, cinematic instincts and insistent colour palettes are the threads that hold his work together.

Over the past decade his work has drifted steadily from rhythm-based electronic music toward what might be called speculative folk: music that draws on distant cultural memory — recasting it through improvisation and patient accumulation.