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Au cœur de ce projet se trouve sa carrière de quinze ans comme animatrice radio – ses goûts ayant évolué depuis ses débuts sur Reprezent Radio, en passant par une résidence sur 1Xtra, jusqu'à son émission du samedi matin sur BBC 6Music. Elle a toujours eu à cœur de mettre en lumière des scènes musicales sous-représentées auprès de nouveaux publics. Loin de toute influence algorithmique, Jamz entretient un lien personnel avec chaque scène, chaque artiste. Divisée en deux faces, reflétant deux ambiances interconnectées, la face «\u0026nbsp;Day\u0026nbsp;» propose des sonorités ensoleillées, ancrées dans l'activisme, le récit et le patrimoine. Le morceau «\u0026nbsp;Bittersweet\u0026nbsp;», fruit de la collaboration entre Gavsborg, fondateur d'Equiknoxx, et Riddim Writer, pédagogue du dub, ouvre le bal avec un titre rythmé et puissant de Groundsound. Il donne le ton et définit l'intention de la compilation, tout en instaurant un fil conducteur percussif qui traverse chaque morceau. Ailleurs, le groupe féminin maloya SIMANGAVOLE collabore avec SOA RAVELO pour un morceau hypnotique et collectif qui touche l'âme. Au fil de la journée, découvrez une ode aux sonorités du Cap signée Esa Williams, un garage rock percutant d'Oruã (Rio), et une fusion de rythmes traditionnels guadeloupéens avec du jazz et du hip-hop contemporains grâce à Célia Wa. Direction Tumaco, sur la côte Pacifique colombienne, où Verito Asprilla nous offre « Quiero Ser Buena », un titre reggaeton futuriste et entraînant. À la nuit tombée, les rythmes s'emballent et les basses s'intensifient. Le remix électronique de Jako Maron mêle ses racines réunionnaises à une ambiance synthétique hypnotique. Jus Now, le duo composé du percussionniste trinidadien Keshav et du producteur britannique Sam Interface, présente son son club global, fusionnant les influences UK bass et les rythmes caribéens. Sam rejoint ensuite Jamz pour « Tan Toddy », une production dancehall explosive revisitée à travers le prisme du UK bashment, avec Lateena au chant et Moses Boyd à la batterie. « Sin Africa » est un autre titre phare, sous la houlette de Jamz, directeur artistique de l'album. Le son club latin entraînant et hypnotique de Brenda se marie à la profondeur des textes de Diva Cruz. Ce thème est omniprésent sur l'ensemble des morceaux. « Presque tous les artistes de cette compilation ont été marqués, d'une manière ou d'une autre, par la colonisation. Nous choisissons la joie et nous célébrons ce que nous avons et ce que nous avons accompli, mais nous ne pouvons ignorer l'existence d'une existence colonisée », explique Jamz. Plus qu'une simple compilation, c'est une célébration sonore qui relie les cultures, les scènes et les perspectives. 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Inspired by Australian soul singer Renée Geyer, who blazed a trail across the country in the 1970s, and a wide tapestry of influences from soul titans like Nina Simone and Curtis Mayfield, to the philosophical musings of Patti Smith, Alice Walker and Simone Weil, Thompson takes the listener by the heart and hand across the album’s 10 shimmering songs. Her belief in the significance of connection shines through on the album’s thematic centrepiece, ‘Promise To Keep’. It is a track that feels at once profound and whimsical in the best possible way, about building nerve, embracing naivety, bravery and love in an act that Thompson likens to a renewed romanticism. Then there is ‘Change of Heart’, which reflects on the temporality, impermanence and synchronicity of a moment, and the bittersweet paradox where everything contains its opposite: absence and presence, innocence and experience, triumph and sadness. 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What could have become a story of fragmentation instead became a source of creative strength. Singer, songwriter, composer and photographer, Siân has always turned borders into bridges.\u003cbr\u003eShe first honed her voice in the jazz clubs of Paris and New York, performing alongside renowned artists such as Richard Bona, Jon Batiste and Mike Stern. Yet her path has always extended far beyond the stage. For nearly a decade, she led cultural initiatives with women and children living through exile, violence and poverty across India and Southern Africa, weaving together music, photography and artistic transmission as tools for dialogue and empowerment.\u003cbr\u003eThe true turning point came when she discovered the kamele ngoni, the West African harp whose ethereal sound seemed to echo something long buried within her. The instrument became her musical alter ego—the invisible thread binding together her many inheritances. 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Every song feels like a shedding of skin, a quiet metamorphosis, exploring self-acceptance, femininity, the freedom to be oneself, cultural heritage, and the reconciliation of one's own imperfections.\u003cbr\u003eFrom Stereotype, a fearless manifesto against the expectations imposed on women, to the title track Animal, an anthem celebrating the beauty of imperfection (\"I've turned my cracks into a crown\"), the album gives a voice to everyone who refuses to fit into predefined boxes. In Terre, je danse sur toi, featuring Fatoumata Diawara, Siân pays tribute to Mother Earth and to the roots that unite us all. Oh! Congo, recorded with Lokua Kanza, reconciles her cultural heritage with an ancestral homeland that feels both distant and intimately familiar. 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Un défi au temps, et à l’époque. \n\u003cbr\u003ePour quelles raisons refait-on, 50 ans plus tard, le même disque qu’à ses débuts ? Les motivations abondent, mais l’une d’entre elles est plus impérieuse que toutes les autres. C’est celle de l’histoire qui recommence, du récit qui semble à nouveau repartir dans les mêmes situations qu’un demi-siècle auparavant, donnant l’impression que le temps s’est replié sur lui-même, que les choses sont revenues à leur point de départ. L’urgence et la nécessité demeurent, s’imposent. Il faut recommencer. 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Ses compagnons littéraires d’infortune, il les emporte dans son exil vers Paris, qu’il rejoint en voiture. Dans la capitale française, un producteur lui propose d’enregistrer un disque et ce sont naturellement les morceaux que le chanteur improvisait chez lui à partir des textes de Darwich, qui composent cet album. Son titre résonne bien avec la guerre qui commence alors : promesses de la tempête. Le chanteur se souvient qu’il devient un tube grâce à son concert qui en suit la sortie, à la fête de l’Huma. Ce jour-là, il s’en écoule 500 exemplaires. « Tout est parti de là et ça ne s’est jamais arrêté », se souvient Marcel Khalife. Il ne rencontrera Mahmoud Darwich que quelques temps plus tard, dans un diner organisé par des amis communs. 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