YUNIS – Fund My Tour: Eyes on the Road

“This spring, I released my new album Ninety Nine Eyes. Since then, I’ve been working independently to build a tour that brings this music to life on stage — across a wide stretch of Europe, from the Balkans to Amsterdam, and onward through cities like Warsaw, Skopje, and Rome.

This journey has been fully self-initiated: reaching out to venues, confirming shows, navigating logistics — all in the spirit of keeping the music alive and shared. But none of this would exist without the incredible help of a group of local promoters who believe deeply in this music. We’re building this tour step by step, city by city — and their trust and dedication are the backbone of this road.

To sustain this momentum, I need a small push of support to help cover basic travel needs and flight tickets for the upcoming legs of the tour.

Now, I’m turning to you for support to raise 1000–1200 euros to cover essential costs: international flights and basic logistics for the upcoming leg of the tour. To make this happen, I’m opening up a very personal part of my archive:

I’m offering the first three unreleased tracks that shaped the sound of Ninety Nine Eyes — the moment when my music started to shift and evolve after Mulid El-Magnoun. These tracks are not available anywhere else.

Alongside that, I’m sharing a small collection of hand-sewed fabric eyes — each one stitched by my partner and the art director of the project, Alaa Eideh. These are not just artworks — they are extensions of the journey we’ve both taken with this album.

If Ninety Nine Eyes spoke to you — or if you believe in the road that music can carve across borders — your support means everything.”

YUNIS – Fund My Tour: Eyes on the Road

Yunis – Ninety Nine Eyes [DBL33LP]

Egyptian composer YUNIS’ Ninety Nine Eyes is a work that exists outside time—equally at home in the temples of antiquity and the neon-lit voids of speculative futures. This double-sided LP (Part I and Part II, 15:14 / 16:03) merges ceremonial percussion, interstellar synthwaves, and wordless incantations into a 31-minute ritual for the infinite. Born from a three-year metamorphosis between studio and stage, and rooted in a Takhmira (a Zar ritual poem), Ninety Nine Eyes channels the archetypal quest—a search for the “land where light is seated.” Its soundscapes evoke the grandeur of forgotten civilizations and the hum of celestial machinery: droning mizmar lines and drowning tombak and duff rhythms dissolve into maximalist synth storms; choirs of phantom voices rise like starlight through the static of ages. Structured like a Sufi Hadra, the LP’s undulating peaks pull at old ways of communing with the divine—Part I builds tension, a breath before the storm, while Part II erupts into unfettered synth-drenched trance, gates flung open—only the listener can close the circle through their own interpretation.

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Yunis – Ninety Nine Eyes [DBL33LP]