A beautiful and emmotional trip

Abu Sadiya is believed to be a West African hunter, enslaved, who would have gone mad after the disappearance of his daughter, abducted by the moon. He would dance to convince the Night star to return to him his beloved child ...

The meeting between jazz, rhythms and fashions of the stambeli will be done by three musicians, in the company of the American drummer Nasheet Waits. Abu Sadiya is an almost narrative sequence, through uprooting, despair, death, transformation, and Yacine Boularès insists that the boundary between improvisation and written music is not always sensitive.

Yacine Boularès, Vincent Segal and Nasheet Waits venture between the streets of Tunis and Manhattan, between tradition, jazz and free music, between the tragedies of history and contemporary resilience, between old secrets and contemporary freedom. It is not only a homage to this African enslaved ; It is his revenge!

As Abu Sadiya, Boularès, Ségal and Waits venture out on cultural explorations between the streets of Tunis and Manhattan, between traditional, jazz and free music, between history s tragedies and modern-day resilience. The trio s music re-appropriates the forgotten Stambeli repertoire, a healing trance music created by the descendants of Sub-Saharan slaves brought to Tunisia. The compositions form a series of variations on the legend of the hunter Abu Sadiya. In his wandering search for his enslaved daughter, Abu Sadiya danced and sang his sorrow in the streets of Tunis, thus becoming the first musician of Stambeli and personifying the memory of Sub-Saharan slaves in Tunisia.

Yacine Boularès : saxophones, clarinet

Vincent Segal : cello

Nasheet Waits : drums

Additional Details

Label: Accords Croises

Genre: Jazz

Language: English

Run Time: 49 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 04/06/18

UPC: 3149028106022