Bab L’ Bluz’s Yousra Mansour guests on BBC Music Life podcast
Yousra discusses her creative processes with Derya Yildirim, Hasan Nakhleh, Merve Erdem.
Wed, 28 October 20
Bab L’ Bluz are reclaiming the blues for North Africa. Fronted by an African-Moroccan woman in a traditionally male role, the band are devoted to a revolution in attitude which dovetails with Morocco’s ‘nayda’ youth movement – a new wave of artists and musicians taking their cues from local heritage, singing words of freedom in the Moroccan-Arabic dialect of darija. Ancient and current, funky and rhythmic, buoyed by Arabic lyrics, soaring vocals and bass-heavy grooves, Nayda! seems to pulse from the heart of the Maghreb.
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Moroccan-French power quartet, Bab L’ Bluz, reclaim the blues for North Africa. Fronted by an African-Moroccan woman in a traditionally male role, Bab L’ Bluz are devoted to a revolution in attitude which dovetails with Morocco’s ‘nayda’ youth movement – a new wave of artists and musicians taking their cues from local heritage, singing words of freedom in the Moroccan-Arabic dialect of darija.
Yousra discusses her creative processes with Derya Yildirim, Hasan Nakhleh, Merve Erdem.
Wed, 28 October 20
The new version of the 1980 classic features 25 musicians, including Yo-Yo Ma and Angélique Kidjo.
Sat, 13 February 21
Bab L' Bluz frontwoman Yousra Mansour talks us through their debut album.
Tue, 15 September 20
Why you should learn another language, and where to go to learn beginner Bambara, Swahili and Urdu.
Thu, 31 December 20