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Maqlu is an independent Vancouver-based alt-rock and industrial artist. Maqlu released her debut EP, Blood, on April 30, 2010. Blood charted on several college radio stations across Canada, most notably hitting #1 at CJAM in Winsdor on September 14, 2010 and #10 on !earshot's national electronic chart for September 28, 2010.
The follow-up to Blood was Black, released on October 31, 2010. Black also charted on Canadian college radio, reaching #6 on !earshot's national electronic chart for November 23, 2010 as well as #8 on ChartAttack's Electronic Chart for November 30, 2010.
The single "Whore" from Black was the Indie Track of the Day for ExploreMusic on November 16, 2010.
In addition to her own music, Maqlu has remixed for Left Spine Down on Smartbomb 2.3: The Underground Mixes ("Reset – Maqlu Remix") and iVardensphere on Remixes Vol. 1 ("Jigsaw – Speak Mix by Maqlu").
The Maqlû, “burning,” series is an Akkadian incantation text which concerns the performance of a rather lengthy anti-witchcraft, or kišpū, ritual. In its mature form, probably composed in the early first millennium BC, it comprises eight tablets of nearly a hundred incantations and a ritual tablet, giving incipits and directions for the ceremony. This was performed over the course of a single night in the month of Abu (July/August) when the perambulations of the spirits to and from the netherworld made them especially vulnerable to its spells. It was the subject of a letter from the exorcist Nabû-nādin-šumi and the Assyrian king Esarhaddon. It seems to have evolved from an earlier short-form with only ten incantations to be performed in a morning ceremony, whose first incantation begins: Šamaš annûtu șalmū ēpišiya (“O Shamash, these are the figurines of my sorcerer”).