Sahari

The acclaimed Saharawi singer-songwriter and activist Aziza Brahim, returns for her third Glitterbeat album. Produced in Barcelona by Aziza with Amparo Sánchez (Amparanoia, Calexico), 'Sahari' is her most adventuresome and sublime work to date. Voiced with deep passion and grace, Aziza Brahim's music adeptly travels the expanse between her Western Saharan roots and Barcelona, the European cosmopolis where she has lived for more than a decade. Aziza is both a contemporary sonic poet and a prominent and an eloquent spokesperson for Saharawi musical culture and theirongoing struggle for political recognition and justice. The music Aziza Brahim makes reflects both the sorrow and the hope of the Western Sahara people. She grew up in one of the camps in the Algerian desert, along with thousands of other Saharawi who were removed from their homes in the Western Sahara. The refugee camp was the place that formed her. It lives in her every heartbeat