Description
Like Rûmi or Gaël Faye in another style, this slammer-writer-composer knows the power of sung words. Revealed with Le Cri du Caire (Suds 2019), he returns with a trio where vocals and brass join forces in a completely new dialogue!
After a childhood in Saudi Arabia and an idealized Egypt as a promised land before arriving in France, where he now resides, this luminous composer-performer had already appealed to a standing, tearful audience at Les Suds in 2019 with Le Cri du Caire (awarded a Victoire du Jazz in 2023). For this new project, Peacok Dreams, the poet-slammer-philosopher enlists the inventiveness of two trombonists: Robinson Khoury, a young French musician of Lebanese origin, and Jules Boittin, a member of several French ensembles. Inspired by jazz and Egyptian sounds, they explore a new language of sound. Between Sufi psalmodies and unstructured sounds, spoken songs and cosmopolitan, even animal sound experiments, or immersed in the bubbling city of Cairo, the trio offers a numinous musical UFO as demanding as it is precious!
Shortlisted for the Best Actor prize by the Centre du Cinéma Arabe in Cannes, director of a first short film, author of a collection of short stories... if as a composer he produces
as a composer, he has produced soundtracks for dance, theater and art exhibitions worldwide, but his words have a particular resonance in the Middle East.
Middle East, to the point of being named by the European Parliament as one of the Schengen area's "actors for change". With Abdullah Miniawy (vocals, lyrics and music, artistic direction), Robinson Khoury (trombone) and Jules Boittin (trombone and trombone arrangement).
