Cello and voice with Arabic roots and Mediterranean soul.

180 gram Black Virgin Vinyl with a free Download Code included!

When the Franco-Algerian singer, cellist and songwriter Nesrine Belmokh and her trio NES appeared on the scene in 2018 they seemed to emerge from nowhere. Many parts of the music world in Europe were taken by surprise by her, and completely captivated as well. Now, for her second album named simply after her - 'Nesrine' - she has re-invented herself. Nesrine's debut album 'Ahlam' was received with tremendous and widespread enthusiasm. What commentators noticed was its sheer beauty, the unusual instrumentation of voice, cello and percussion, and also the way in which the Mediterranean region from North Africa to Southern Europe was brought to life and unified through music. London's Sunday Times described her as 'an incandescent, multilingual talent'. For her new album Nesrine has teamed up with producer/guitarist Vincent Huma (Jorge Drexler, Miguel Bosé) and sound engineer Fab Dupont (Shakira, Jennifer Lopez, Wynton Marsalis, David Crosby). Together with percussionist David Gadea and guests, they have succeeded in creating a complex musical world of both acoustic and electronic sounds, and yet the naturalness, the simplicity and warmth of the debut album 'Ahlam' have been retained, and also broadened by adding completely new influences. In theory this might sound as if the juxtaposing of different cultures and the crossing over between them will lead to overload, but for Nesrine we are dealing with things that are normal, even existential. This music functions and flows so naturally because the combining of cultures is never artificial. It results from the fact that the different elements are simply, logically and truly parts of the artistic essence of the artist herself. To ask what this music is just has to be the wrong question. World music? Or global pop? Or fusion? The right question to ask is who it is. And the answer has a compelling simplicity about it: NESRINE.

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Track Listing

• Rissala
• My Perfect Man
• Elle
• Rimitti
• Memories
• Mumkin
• Fantasy
• Night
• Silent Mood
• Vitamin C

Additional Details

Label: Act

Genre: Jazz

Run Time: 40 mins

Release Date: 10/30/20

UPC: 614427991911