Oum – Daba (2019) [FLAC 24bit/44,1kHz]

Oum – Daba (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 49:48 minutes | 577 MB | Genre: World, Soul, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Music Development Company

Daba means ‘Now’ in Moroccan. Giving this title to her third album is, for Oum, all about linking yesterday’s experience to the one determined by the present moment. In this ‘now’, the singer, having achieved a certain artistic maturity, is able to mix traditional Arab and Sahraoui elements with discreet borrowings from more contemporary aesthetics – soul, jazz and electronic trance.

Originally from Casablanca, Oum El Ghaït Ben Essahraoui seemed destined to become an architect but then decided to embrace a career in music. She quickly drew the attention of the media, who identified her with the Nayda, a movement of young Moroccans attracted by more urban sounds. She began to write in darija, the everyday dialect of Moroccan Arabic.

After Soul of Morocco in 2013 and Zarabi in 2015, with Daba, her third album, Oum reaches a new milestone. Entrusting the artistic direction to the Palestinian poetess, singer and oud player Kamilya Jubran, she went to Berlin with her musicians to make a record that was both atmospheric and danceable. For Oum, this dual aim reflects a sort of state of emergency, one that she describes as dynamic : to be together and share good times is all the more urgent now that the means of communication and transport tend to radically reshape one’s experience of the world and of the other.

The orchestration on Daba remains generally acoustic, but, for the first time, certain electronic sounds adorn the songs, as if to echo the more contemporary dilemmas reflected in her lyrics; the threat to Nature, the fate of migrants, the status of women, but also an exhortation to live fully in the present. With such themes, Oum positions herself as a Moroccan, an African and a woman of the world who is convinced that cultural barriers are less weighty than that which brings us together.

On Daba, Oum is accompanied by Yacir Rami (oud), Damian Nueva (bass), Camille Passeri (trumpet), Carlos Mejias (saxophone & sound design) and Amar Chaoui (percussions)Oum is the most prominent star of the urban Moroccan scene called Nayda. This release marks her third international release and her fifth overall, for which she pairs with the Palestinian Kamylia Joubran (who also took the mantle of artistic director). On Daba (Now), Oum El Ghaït Ben Essahraoui lyrical waxes about the environment on Chaira (Tree), Ha (Here), and Yabhar (Ocean), and she expresses feminist convictions versus the patriarchy on Kemmy (You); even going so far to bring up violence against migrants on Laji and Temma with a clear and piercing voice. Her singing flows over rhythms combining traditional percussion and bass funk, interacting with jazz horns (bugle, trumpet, saxophone) and a wily oud. Add in a few light atmospheric pads and electronic noises, and you have the mirages of Daba’s post-modern desert, strewn with a few contemporary oases. The trip is a contemplative, serious and joyful invitation that never loses its hopeful spark. – Benjamin MiNiMuM

Tracklist:

01. Oum – Fasl (04:32)
02. Oum – Chajra (03:31)
03. Oum – Temma (04:11)
04. Oum – Daba (03:46)
05. Oum – Rhyam (05:34)
06. Oum – Jnan (Interlude) (00:46)
07. Oum – Kemmy (03:20)
08. Oum – Mezzinellil (04:20)
09. Oum – Ha (03:21)
10. Oum – Yabhar (05:05)
11. Oum – Laji (04:42)
12. Oum – Sadak (06:33)

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