Dornika is a Tehran born and Berlin based artist, singer/songwriter, rapper and music producer. Also known in the vibrant Berlin queer underground by her drag persona, Many Faced Godx, she is as versatile with her sound as she is with her looks, defying genre as well as gender expectations.
Released June 2023, her latest EP is Revolution; a four-track release which perfectly encapsulates the range of her output, from house and US garage to soaring electronic pop and gritty experimental electronica. These tracks are highly personal, diverse, and all touch on topics of body autonomy, migration, healing generational trauma and the ongoing revolution in her native Iran.
“At the core of the EP lies the sentence Revolution is as political as it is personal. Recognizing the traumas inflicted by the systems we live in and tying them together in a way that goes beyond region and takes into account the global dynamics behind our oppression. In this body of work I propose a new path forward. I reveal a lot of myself and get very vulnerable as well as show strength and power as these two things come hand in hand. Healing is not possible until we address our wounds and true strength comes through vulnerability.
KoOkOo is the second single of the EP. The song tracks the melancholic story telling of a child that has been through a big journey and finds it impossible to live in a world with so much sadness and violence. The song is inspired by my own journey of migration and dealing with harsh realities of the world and then finding purpose in them to be the change I wish to see. The references to anti black racism in the west and especially the US and tying them with external attacks and exportation of racism to the middle east are intentional because our problems are connected all over the world, even if they are different. We can learn so much by listening to the ways we are all affected by the world and truly be able to make effective change towards equity. Our liberation is tied to one another as much as is our oppression.”
