Last Night a Woman Saved My Life

Description

Dominique Dalcan, the maverick of the French music scene, made a name for himself during the golden age of French Touch with his projects Snooze and then Temperance, which earned him a Victoire de la Musique award in 2018. He is now presenting his new album: "Last Night a Woman Saved My Life", a multimedia work that began with an installation of the same name at Centquatre in 2020. In it, Lebanese women recount their daily lives, their dreams and their hopes, set against an oriental soundscape composed by the artist. This album is a continuation of that work. It bridges the gap between electronic and organic, Western and Eastern, minimalism and lyricism. "Neither hi-fi nor lo-fi. Contemporary," summarizes its author, who sought to divert the usual context of oriental music for these eleven tracks of irresistible pop audacity. He shaped the texture of an album that doesn't shy away from doubt, but where hypnotic instruments such as the oud and qanun stand out. He thus expresses his "personal folklore", his Lebanese roots, as he was born in Beirut in 1967 before being adopted. As if searching for an unknown mother, the artist invites powerful female voices and musicians to this soundscape: the Franco-Algerian Souad Massi, the Syrian jazz girl Lynn Adib, Rezvan Zahedi & Parisa, or the embodiment of Persian singing, Dina El Wedidi, a star in her native Egypt, the Tunisian zither player and vocalist Hend Zouari, the promising young Sudanese artist Sulafa Elyas, the brilliant Franco-Syrian flutist Naïssam Jalal, one of the most beautiful Moroccan voices, Meryem Aboulouafa, not to mention Dominique's compatriot Yara Lapidus or Yasmine Morkos, who cultivates an Arab-Andalusian music made in Lebanon.