Filastine is the handle of Barcelona-based composer and video artist Grey Filastine.
Grey Filastine is an LA-born audio-visual artist based in Barcelona with nomadic tendencies.!
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Grey Filastine is an American-born musician, multimedia artist, and activist, based in Barcelona but working internationally.
He is the co-founder of Arka Kinari along with Nova Ruth.[1]
Career
A former taxi driver raised in the United States, Filastine studied music directly from traditional masters, apprenticing with carnival batucadas in Brazil, folk musicians in North India, batá drummers in Cuba, and sufi brotherhoods in Morocco.
Filastine’s first music project was the industrial percussion performance group ¡Tchkung!.
Filastine & Nova are international artists creating music, videos and live performances.After the dissolution of ¡TchKung!, he founded the marching band Infernal Noise Brigade to disrupt the 1999 meeting of the World Trade Organization in Seattle.[2]
From 2004, Filastine began touring as a DJ and producing electronic music.
In 2006, DJ /rupture discovered and released Filastine’s first electronic album, Burn It!. X