L'autre Asu: CD-levy Vuosi: 2023, 03.02.2023 Kieli: und
Chance encounters always give beautiful things. The collaboration between Aziz Sahmaoui and Eric Longsworth is proof of this.
It was on the festival “En Accords, Festival Imprévisible et Inattendu” that Aziz Sahmaoui met Eric Longsworth. Between the founder of the famous Orchester national de Barbès, current leader of the University of Gnawa group and the jazz cellist who is both a musician, hiker and explorer, the alchemy is created and works.
From their meeting is born an unprecedented musical complicity which will lead to the album “It will be beautiful tomorrow morning until noon”. Meanwhile, a third musician joins the duo: Adhil Mirghani, percussionist from the University of Gnawa, who has also collaborated with Malika Zarra, Marcus Miller, Juan Carmona, Gnawa Diffusion...
In the end we discover an extremely poetic album composed of twelve titles sung in Arabic, French and English, including the magnificent "Morning has broken", by Eleanor Farjeon, already adapted by Cat Stevens in 1971. A mandola and a cello, the soft voice by Aziz Sahmaoui, are enough to magnify the text of the English poetess.
"It will be sunny tomorrow morning until noon" is a mix of cultures, an opening to the world. We talk about the human condition, the Arab spring, truth, destiny... Alternating between gnawa rhythms, jazzy sounds, folk or blues, this album is a musical road trip that plunges into the heart of the human soul to bring out all the emotions that make it up.
