Credits:

Souad Massi

Description:

This is the first new album by Suad Masih, a female Kabyle SSW from Algeria who has been on the scene since the early 2000s, and her tenth album since 2019's "Oumniya". The album is produced by Justin Adams, an English musician who has worked on important works by Tinariwen and Rashid Taha, and is also known for his work with Robert Plant's band "Sensational Space Shifters". The songs, almost all of which were written by Suad, are sung in French or Arabic, with lyrics that express the anxiety felt in the aftermath of the Corona disaster and the strong feelings of facing up to loneliness. The title song uses the ancient myth of Sequana, the goddess who watched over the clear waters of the Seine and was thought to have healing and curative powers in Gallo-Roman times, to express the difficulties of adolescence in an Arabic poem. (C)RS