“He’s Giving me Oud Vibrations” or “The Oud Couple”

Ali Rahman, of Digital Bird Studios, Flames!, A Vertical Mosaic, Square Quotes, and countless other endeavors is a man about town, cock-blocker to heteros engaged in late-night alley homo-sucks, and an internationally recognized hip hop producer who brings freshness to the tired world of urban music.

Follow his course through time, space and the city of Montreal on this tool, which will map Ali's whereabouts as he engages in the situationist and psycho-geographic practice of drifting.

This page is irregularly maintained so that all who want to may in some little way partake in the magic of Ali Rahman, this Quixotic and intriguing figure, who has cut such a figure across the globe, and from such humble beginnings as the child of immigrant parents. Maintained by Jay Watts III and his Vast Virtual Media Empire.

“He’s Giving me Oud Vibrations” or “The Oud Couple”

In this inaugural episode of Square Quotes, hosts Alexander Buckiewicz-Smith and Jay Watts III fumble their way through two interviews, while producer Ali Rahman wonders what exactly it is that he’s got himself in to.

The two guests, gracious and forgiving to a fault, were Montrealer Sam Shalabi and Jon Fall Ryan of Brooklyn’s electronic noise-improv sextet, Excepter, both of which will be performing in Montreal as part of the Suoni per il Popolo festival.

The episode features contributions from both interviewed artists, as well as three selections of music picked by the hosts in their quest for obscurantist internet supremacy. Thrill to the sounds of “Guzar Jaye Din,” a Bollywood song from the film “Annadata;” get girl crazy with Chuck Jackson as he exalts the fairer sex in “Girls, Girls, Girls;” and smother yourself in sentimental kitsch with the Portuguesed-American Jeanette as she runs us through “Porque Te Vas.”

More episodes to come, as ABS and JW3 find their footing, and producer Ali continues fretting.

Where is Ali Rahman?

“He’s Giving me Oud Vibrations” or “The Oud Couple”