Djazia Satour

In her new album, ASWAT, Djazia Satour freely explores amore assertive personal creative vein. She conducts in-depthresearch on sonorities, driven by maturity and the need tolisten to thehertage of deceased ancestors : the orientalminor is married to the blues, a three-beat waltz is invited tochaabi rhythms by combining with samples of oud, and thebendirs of imaginary tribes syncopate with the most unbridledbanjo riffs.Entirely sung in Arabic and built around original compositions,this album tells the story of exile, the strength of love, themagic of singing. Through textes with personal echoes, theartist suggests an approach to the world, while making areturn to basics imbued with delicacy and eloquence. Far fromexhibitions of backward-looking scents, this new opus owesits authenticity as much to invention as to tradition.