Cabaret - films, live music, dj set (guest.es by Martha Kirszenbaum)

Bringing together an eclectic array of artists from the region and its diaspora, the evening is divided into two sections: one dedicated to artist and musical films, and the other focusing on live performances by musicians, poets and DJs. Leylet Hob takes its title from the classic Arabic song of the same name composed in the 1960s by musician Mohamed Abdel Wahab, performed by legendary Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum, and repeated many times since its first release at countless weddings, concerts and parties over the last few decades. It reflects on the importance of popular culture, the omnipresence of technology and the role of music and dance, while tackling a form of vernacular "disorientalism" and conveying a certain digital cosmopolitanism.

Artists

Ramo

Chouf and Mohammed Lamouri

Inès Chérifi

Performance Ramo

Ramo offers here a contemporary interpretation of two classics of Arabic popular music, رسالة من تحت الماء and قارئة الفنجان، ( Une lettre sous-marine and La Diseuse de bonne aventure) adapted from poems by Nizar Qabbani and sung by Abdel Halim Hafez in the 60s and 70s. Through translation, improvisation and rewriting, he explores the musical genre "Tarab" (lit. Rapture), its history, influence and residues. Faced with uncertainty, mourning and the arbitrariness of life, he writes and sings, tells his stories and invests the space of the ineffable and furtive to forget and remember. When love fails, what's left of the night? Leylet Hob.

Ramo

Ramo was born near Casablanca, Morocco, in the early 1990s. With degrees in Mathematics (Paris V), Plastic Arts (EESAB) and Languages and Civilizations (Inalco), he has lived and worked in Paris, France since 2013. His practice combines literature and the visual arts through installations and performances, poetic or abstract stagings. His poems have been published by New River Press in London, and he has taken part in group exhibitions at the Premier Regard gallery, the Cité Internationale des Arts gallery and the Palais de la Porte Dorée. He represented Morocco at the Splitera literary festival in Croatia, and was also one of the characters in Laure Prouvost's project for the French Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale.

Performance Inès Cherifi  

Inès Cherifi develops a dialogue between electric violin, voice and machines, where the boundaries between each element sometimes seem to blur. The sounds of violin and voice acquire a mutant character, metamorphosing into sensations of unreality, as if resonating in a parallel world. Fragile, trembling, unstable materialities unfold in orchestral dimensions, producing a sensation of immersion. Influenced by genres such as hybrid-club, noise, pop or classical, her pieces contain dense, romantic limbo revived by fragments of club music, reanimating extinguished harmonies and an atmosphere of desolation. Oscillating between tension and release in an explosive, luminous energy that evokes a vibrant call to another world, the narratives produced aspire to take shape and materialize.

Inès Cherifi

Inès Cherifi is a producer and artist. Her music oscillates between symphonic sonorities and incisive, radical kicks. An explosive burst of light in a dense, romantic abyss. The mutant, erratic sounds gradually feed off each other, creating a sense of immersion. Between improvisations and meticulous compositions, his pieces produce hybrid narratives blending electric violin, synths and voice. Her influences oscillate between experimental music, electronica, noise and hybridclub. She has been programmed at Lafayette Anticipation, Palais de Tokyo, FRAC Corse, Eglise Saint-Eustache, Mucem, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst and soon at CWB.