- country:Algeria
- region:North Africa
- style(s):Chaabi, Gnawa
- label:not signed
- type:Band
- instrumentation:instrumental, vocal, percussion, string, brass, guitar
- artist posted by:Riot Artists
Line up
- Nedjim Bouizzoul (vocal, guitar)
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LABESS, which means “everything is fine” in Arabic, brilliantly fuses gypsy rumba, flamenco and traditional North-African rhythms such as gnawa and chaabi.
Singing in Arabic, his mother language, in French, or in Spanish, the band’s founder Nedjim Bouizzoul, with his expressive voice, tells stories full of authenticity, mixing realism and hope, gentleness and fury. He sings about exile, telling us about the joys and the distress that punctuate the road from the native country to the welcoming country, and vice-versa. Through his poetry, he proposes a reflection on cultural diversity and the necessity that we all be united, no matter our differences.