Aïta Mon Amour
Feminist Moroccan aïta (lament)
The pivotal person behind France-based Moroccan duo Aïta Mon Amour (FR/MA) is Widad Mjama, often hailed as the very first female rapper & MC from the Maghreb. In her latest musical project, together with Khalil Epi, she builds a bridge between modern music and the ancestral Moroccan musical tradition of aïta, or lamentation. This tradition was only handed down through women and stems from the Chikhates, feminist singers from the 12th century who fought injustice and oppression.
Widad and Khalil wanted to pull this poetry out of obscurity through Aïta Mon Amour and have it resonate in the digital age, by combining electronic sounds with traditional snared instruments like the oud, violin and loutar. No finer way to pass on the torch from one generation to the next with dignity. Their first wonderful, rhythmically driven single Sidi H’med already has us suspecting that Feeërieën will be on fire and that Aïta Mon Amour will be embraced by Belgium.
This is a Liveurope concert: the first pan-European initiative supporting concert venues in their efforts to promote emerging European music.
