Labess

 

About

Let’s discover the beauty and the richness of the music of LABESS, which means “everything is fine” in Arabic. The group brilliantly fused gypsy rumba, flamenco and traditional North-Africa music rhythms such as gnawa and chaabi.


 

Artist Links: Website  |  Facebook  |  YouTube  |  Instagram  | SoundCloud

Areas of Representation: Australia/New Zealand; The Americas except Quebec province.

Biography

Discover the beauty and the richness of the music of LABESS, which means “everything is fine” in Arabic. The group brilliantly fused 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.

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  • Photos: Kyiv musicians bring soul to NiagaraPhotos: Kyiv musicians bring soul to Niagara

    Ukraine world-music quartet DakhaBrakha entertains FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre audience

    Wed., March 1, 2023

    DakhaBrakha, an ensemble from Kyiv, Ukraine, brought their eclectic style of world music to the stage at FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre in St. Catharines Wednesday night.

    Original Article

  • DakhaBrakha Wins globalFEST’s Artist AwardDakhaBrakha Wins globalFEST's Artist Award

    globalFEST presents a series of annual awards that celebrate those that excel in the underrecognized but crucial global music field in the USA.
    The awards are presented to artists, professionals, and organizations who have been instrumental in making significant, long-standing contributions to the field through risk-taking; addressing cultural diversity and diplomacy; activism; helping to keep, transmit, ...

  • DakhaBrakha’s Ukraine Update: Dec 2022DakhaBrakha's Ukraine Update: Dec 2022
    Excerpt from interview in the Greek journal Hellas: Posts English
    When the war started were you in Ukraine? What is happening in the country right now?

    “When the war started we were all in Ukraine. At that particular moment we had started our tour of Ukraine. In fact, we had to travel to another city in the ...

  • Songlines 2022 Fusion Award Winner: Justin Adams & Mauro Durante: Still Moving on Ponderosa MusicSonglines 2022  Fusion Award Winner: Justin Adams & Mauro Durante: Still Moving on Ponderosa Music
    Justin Adams has long been an adventurous serial collaborator, but his album with Mauro Durante – leader of Italy’s premier pizzica band Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino, who won the Songlines Music Award for Best Group in 2018 – ranks among his finest achievements. The meeting point for the musicians was a fascination with trance rhythms and ...

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Technical Riders:

Labess Rider: Download (pdf) (coming soon)


 

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