Daba (Now): Today’s realities expressed in the poetic and poignant lyrics of Oum. After Soul of Morocco in 2013 and Zarabi in 2015, with this third album Daba, Oum reaches a new milestone. She travels with her musicians to Berlin to make a record that is both atmospheric and danceable, with artistic direction entrusted to the Palestinian poet, singer and oud player Kamilya Jubran. The orchestration of Daba remains largely acoustic, but a few electronic sounds dress the songs for the first time, as if to echo more contemporary issues addressed in the album’s lyrics; nature under threat, the fate of migrants, the status of women, but also an exhortation to live fully in the present. Oum thus positions herself as a Moroccan, an African, and a woman of the world convinced that cultural barriers weigh less than what can bring us together.