Sequana (Backingtrack Production / Wrasse Records), the new album by Franco-Algerian singer-songwriter Souad Massi is the top album at the World Music Charts Europe in December 2022.
Sequana is Massi’s tenth album, produced by British guitarist Justin Adams. Musical influences include Algerian roots and sounds of the Sahel, as well as Caribbean and Brazilian music. Guests include singer-songwriter Piers Faccini and the flutist Naïssam Jalal.
On the cover, Massi faces the listener with two daisies delicately placed on her eyelids. Under the flowers, with eyes closed, “I had this feeling of fragility, vulnerability, but also of no longer having to witness the ugly vision of nature being destroyed“. In this state of being, “we can reconnect with what is essential. At the same time”, continues Souad, “it is, paradoxically, a sort of denunciation and indignation with regard to what we are experiencing and what our gaze perceives”.
December 2022 chart
- Souad Massi – Sequana – BackingTrack
- Majid Bekkas – Joudour – Igloo
- Dawda Jobarteh – Do You Know A Place Called Flekkeroy – Ajabu!
- Rachele Andrioli – Leuca – Finisterre
- Liraz – Roya – Glitterbeat
- Antonis Antoniou – Throisma – Ajabu!
- Alice In WonderBand – Rikataka – CPL Music
- Adédeji – Yoruba Odyssey – One World Records
- DJ Click & Masha Natanson – Violins Agains Bombs – No Fridge
- Efrén López & Christos Barbas – Atlas – Seyir Muzik
- Wesli – Tradisyon – Cumbancha
- Momi Maiga – Nio – Segell Microscopi
- Al-Qasar – Who Are We? – Glitterbeat
- Vieux Farka Touré & Khruangbin – Ali – Dead Oceans
- Yanna Momina – Afar Ways – Glitterbeat
- Enkel – Love Hurts – Nordic Notes
- A Moving Sound – Starshine – ARC Music
- Derya Yildirim & Grup Simsek – Dost 2 – Bongo Joe
- Okra Playground – Itku – Nordic Notes
- Chloe Matharu – Small Voyages – self released
More about the World Music Charts Europe: wmce.de
Author: World Music Central News Room
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