Healing Rituals

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These imaginary healing rituals respond to the three imperatives of a suffering body: silence, trance, and beauty. Silence for calm, soothing, and contemplation. Trance for forgetting pain and anxiety. Beauty that the spirit needs to nourish itself in order to regain hope and the desire to live in the face of the ugliness of a suffering body. - - It is a quartet formation close to 'chamber music' that embodies the modernity of these rituals. And yet they are part of the continuity of healing rituals from ancestral and often animist traditions that inspired me to compose them. - - - - Naïssam invents a music that reflects her image: mixed and combative, merging compositions of great melodic richness, undulating grooves, precious harmonies reminiscent of Middle Eastern music, and a certain modal lyricism evoking in turn the nomadic music of Don Cherry and the obsessive mystical jazz of John Coltrane. (Jazz Magazine)