Aziza Brahim - Hada jil (official video)

CD/LP: bit.ly/aziza_sa...
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Release Date: 15/11/2019
Glitterbeat Records
On the front cover of Aziza Brahim’s new album, Sahari, a young girl poses in ballet shoes and a glistening white tutu. It’s a common childhood scene, but it’s tipped upside down. She’s not privileged and the backdrop isn’t a comfortable suburban home. She’s an exile, living nowhere near her homeland, and behind her stand the tents and buildings of a refugee camp. There’s a desert on the ground and a burning sky above. Yet even in this bleakness, she has optimism. She believes in a better future.
The music Aziza Brahim makes reflects both the sorrow and the hope of these people. She grew up in one of those camps in the Algerian desert, along with thousands of other Saharwai who were removed from their homes in the Western Sahara. The refugee camp was the place that formed her. It lives in her every heartbeat.
Her grandmother was a famous Saharwai poet, her mother well-known as a vocalist, and they passed their strength and fearlessness to her. Now, as one of North African most lauded singers, Brahim uses her position to make the plight of her people known - and of the refugees across the world who have no choice but to exist in the camps. Sahari is for them as much as it’s for her own family.
The political remains intensely personal for Brahim. She lives in exile, in Spain, and the music for Sahari - her third album for Glitterbeat - was written there. And while her songs remain grounded in her homeland, her gaze is increasingly global. To achieve that, Brahim worked with the acclaimed Spanish artist Amparo Sánchez of the band Amparanoia on the album’s pre-production, and the collaboration has made a transformative impact on the music. The focus is broader, with programming and keyboards a vital part of the new sound.
“Amparo is an artist I’ve always admired,” Brahim observes. “She suggested introducing electronics, and that meant recording in a different way. Before, we’d record everything live. This time we all worked in different studios then put the pieces together. I produced the album, the first time I’ve done that since Mabruk in 2012, and it was a very difficult job, a very interesting challenge: to work in a new way yet make your own songs sound exactly as you want.”
When Brahim began as a composer, her work reflected her own reality, growing up in the far, rocky desert known as the hamada. These days she’s become a voice for refugees across the globe, and what she sees every day on the news has inevitably affected her writing.
“The normalisation of injustice is something that the Saharawis know well,” she observes. “By addressing that in the songs, I’m trying to fight against the prejudices some people have. We all see tragic news caused by the policies of reactionary governments. Of course that’s influenced the writing of the songs on this new album. How could it not?”
And one of the most powerful pieces on Sahari is a cry for home from someone caught in the flux of exile. “Ard El Hub,” Brahim explains, speaks of “the impossibility of returning to the homeland for us. The lyrics of the song are by Zaim Alal, a great Saharawi poet. I saw him the last time I was in the refugee camps, and he wrote this poem for me to sing.”

[@bykarizma555]

Mooi stem , mooi melodie ,mooi meisje. Ik ben verliefd op haar

[@profesorsergisanchiztorres664]

He oído muchas canciones bellísimas de Aziza, y siempre pienso que no puedo escuchar nada más bonito... hasta que saca nuevo disco. ¡Qué maravilla! Shokran! ¡Sáhara libre!

[@willmanbentancort9885]

HERMOSA MELODÍA..Mi admiración y respeto a tan gran y bella artista. Una luchadora por la libertad de su pueblo. Un abrazo compañero desde Montevideo Uruguay...ADELANTE PUEBLO SAHARAWUIS!!!

[@imnotjustiny.5926]

SAHARAUI*

[@mariacastaneda77]

Aziza Brahim🇪🇸

[@merusch7170]

was für eine schöne Musik

[@Susumustafa]

نت رائعة واصلي

[@freewestsh8751]

FREEDOM FOR WESTERN SAHARA! 🇪🇭 ¡LIBERTAD PARA EL SÁHARA OCCIDENTAL! 🇪🇭🇪🇭🇪🇭🇪🇭🇪🇭🇪🇭🇪🇭🇪🇭🇪🇭

[@Lychia00]

Wat een moei stem ✌🏻🇪🇭🇪🇭🇪🇭

[@bykarizma555]

Ze komt naar antwerpen.

[@jacaverdepanc6239]

What a wonderful song!

[@luciabl4894]

INCREÍBLE ARTISTA!!! Haga lo que haga, es mi canción favorita

[@christineannekobel7396]

Going on air on my radio show, happy to share Her talents ! Would love to interview her.

[@blueboyjournal]

21/09/2023: Had coffee with Cecile (of Palmerston) yesterday, with her little boy in tow.The two of them, radiant as ever

[@evamartaharbar5736]

Conmovedora escucha!!!!!!!!!!!

[@theaudiokitchen5942]

Heard it on the radio

[@mojahamaim9975]

Me encantaaaa❤❤❤

[@becadatortuga1298]

MARAVILLOSA AZIZA BRAHIM¡ VIVA SAHARA LIBRE Y PALESTINA LIBRE Y TODA LA HUMANIDAD¡ ANTIRACISTA Y FEMINISTA AHORA Y SIEMPRE¡ UBUNTU Y HURRIYA¡ VIVA LA LIBRE CIRCULACIÓN DE PERSONAS, LA INTERCULTURALIDAD, LA SOBERANÍA ALIMENTARIA, LA SOLIDARIDAD, AMOR, ALEGRÍA, HUMANIDAD Y NATURALEZA¡ MUCHOS BESOS AZIZA Y TODA ÁFRICA¡FELIZ DÍA Y LARGA VIDA CON SALUD Y ALEGRÍA¡

[@Bidancinho]

La canción es muy hermosa. Sería maravilloso que publicárais la letra del poema de Zaim. Creo que ayudaría en la transmisión del mensaje.

[@MeteoriteDakhla]

I am morocco sitizen and sahara morocco for ever but your voice so so worme

[@munapolisarioalgeria9410]

En tu sueño jajaja

[@BADBVTCHRECORDS]

Don't even comment if ur gonna apose her politically

[@salvatoretitolo2541]

Gran bel progetto, complimenti !!

[@curatorabramsiv]

Красивый голос и красивая женщина, как люди приспособились выживать в песках Сахары, наверно это очень трудно!

[@salinkasahara4749]

Viva sáhara Occidental🇪🇭 western Sáhara viva frente polisario🇪🇭🇪🇭🇪🇭 🎪🐫🌴🗽🇩🇿

[@faridlannabi]

Magnifique !

[@mimihamma5307]

Wonderful

[@Sanco34]

❤⭐❤

[@varolturan]

❤

[@zaaimsahara]

❤❤❤

[@batouldakh7202]

اسكي حتى

[@TouratSbouya]

I'm sahraoui consider myself moroccan but I love Aziza Brahim much of love sister Sahraoui bidhani proud

[@h.g.3845]

I'm Sahrawi and doesn't consider myself Moroccan and I love my sister Aziza. Long live free Western Sahara!

[@TouratSbouya]

@@h.g.3845 this is your point of view, but respect the point of view of all sahraoui. Where u from in sahara ? A lot of fake account pretend to be sahraoui in KZbin ...

[@neila1298]

Le Maroc n'est pas votre pays . Battez vous pour votre liberté et la liberté de votre pays. Avec amour et paix

[@TouratSbouya]

@@neila1298 nous nous sommes battus alors que les algeriens étaient colonisés, nous avons fait 2 guerres à l'Espangne, l'une avant notre occupation, l'autre au moment juste aprés que le Maroc devient independant en 57 pour nous réunifier à lui et nous avons vaincu , avant que l'Espagne appelle la France à la rescousse.

[@neila1298]

@@TouratSbouya petit con on sait ts que votre Maroc et les Marocains c'est des mèches botte de l'occident et d'Israël. l'Espagne vous a donné votre indépendance dans un plateaux en argent. Et vous ne voyez êtes jamais battus pour votre pays. Ahhhhh j'allais l'oublier je suis Kabyle algérienne connards.

[@davideiurlano2434]

!!!

[@youtubepolice2835]

it's also the idea who killed, jailed and tortured my dad in the camps of tindouf, by the hands of Polisario leaders.