In my roots, as in my songs, I feel like I belong to an imaginary country, a kind of no-man's land or a border zone. Drawn as much by British folk as by African music, passing through the Mediterranean in all its languages and colors, songs are for me multi-voiced spacecrafts or simply travel journals, both real and woven with metaphors. On my previous albums, I explored the rich relationship between Anglophone songwriting and African rhythms. On I Dreamed An Island, I continue a work in song and text, begun over the last two years, inspired by the close and intimate dance between West and East.