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We often find ourselves wordless when trying to describe Emel Mathlouthi’s music. At the same time, saying “beautiful” would be quite enough, even ith her mesmerizing explorations take us through many different traditions, times and emotions.

We often find ourselves wordless when trying to describe Emel Mathlouthi’s music. At the same time, saying “beautiful” would be quite enough, even ith her mesmerizing explorations take us through many different traditions, times and emotions.

Emel Mathlouthi is a bad ass. Even before 2010, her music was banned from radio and TV due to her dissident songs and growing popularity.

One of the shortest, but also one of the most intense songs we heard recently, “Ala Hallet ‘Aini” comes off the soundtrack of the French-produced, by Tunisia-based movie “As I Open My Eyes“.

One of the shortest, but also one of the most intense songs we heard recently, “Ala Hallet ‘Aini” comes off the soundtrack of the French-produced, by Tunisia-based movie “As I Open My Eyes“.

“When I was composing this track together with Stephane Puech, playing on keyboards and responsible for electronic effects, we first started with that Btaihi rhythm.

For his new single, “Trop Tard”, Tunisian world/jazz/sufi singer Mounir Troudi (منير الطرودي), invited rapper Phenix, once again showing that the distance between music styles and epochs is just a myth.