Buzz Alert: SAADI’s “Bad City” EP Is Serious Business

January 25th, 2010 by Victoria Davis

SAADI is Boshra al Saadi, the former guitarist/vocalist for NYC female led, pop-punk band, Looker. Her upcoming 12” EP, Bad City, will be released on March 9 through NYC-based Serious Business Records.

The same label where Looker began, Serious Business provided SAADI a familiar recording platform for the newly cultivated, electro-pop sound that can be found on her debut EP. Boshra al Saadi and Travis Harrison, the founder and president of Serious Business, jointly produced the album.

A recording collective with studios in Soho, Serious Business is also home to bands such as Kickstart, Benji Cossa and The Two Man Gentleman Band.

With influences that range from Bob Dylan to Brian Eno and traditional Arabic and Nigerian music, SAADI is a rhythmically intricate and ultramodern hybrid of sounds. Listen to the title track off SAADI’s upcoming EP, “Bad City,” here: HERE

And see SAADI perform live at Pianos on Sunday, January 31, in the final performance of her January residency.

If you’ll be heading down to South by Southwest, you can catch SAADI at the Paper Garden Records Party March 20. Paper Garden Records is a Brooklyn-based record label and artist publicity firm.