Healing Rituals Naïssam Jalal

• 1Rituel du vent06:13
• 2Rituel du soleil06:06
• 3Rituel des collines04:32
• 4Rituel de la rivière07:54
• 5Rituel de la terre05:29
• 6Rituel de la fôret03:49
• 7Rituel de la lune09:51
• 8Rituel de la brume04:09
• Total Runtime48:03

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In spite of all the reasons to be angry in this world of ours, Naïssam Jalal has chosen not to seethe, but to soothe. The flute player, composer and singer has relentlessly created music which taps into her instinctive strength. Healing Rituals could be considered as a formal climax – the quintessence of what the musician has been after. Her whispered art is a true ritual, drawing inspiration from traditional cultures and customs, especially the way they have been used throughout life to soothe and heal. The invisible realm is a recurring theme of Naïssam Jalal’s art, and one for which she was crowned in 2019 at the Victoires du Jazz. Her own reconnexion with the spiritual world lies at the root of these Healing Rituals, which bring together Egyptian, Moroccan and American traditions, aiming at collective grace.

"These imaginary healing rituals address the three imperatives of a suffering body: silence, trance and beauty. Silence for calm, cooling down and contemplation. Trance to forget pain and anxiety. Beauty that the spirit needs to feed itself in order to find hope and the desire to live in front of the ugliness of a suffering body. Healing Rituals is a quartet close to « chamber music » that embodies the modernity of these rituals. And yet they are in line with healing rituals from ancestral and often animistic traditions that inspired me to compose them." (Naïssam Jalal)

Naïssam Jalal, flute, nay, vocals, daf
Clément Petit, cello, backing vocals
Claude Tchamitchian, double bass
Zaza Desiderio, drums

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