Emel – Everywhere We Looked Was Burning (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Emel – Everywhere We Looked Was Burning (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 45:18 minutes | 494 MB | Genre: Folk, Alternetive Rock, Experimental
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Partisan Records

Tunisian-born / New York-based experimental singer Emel Mathlouthi releases her new album Everywhere We Looked Was Burning via Partisan Records. For the first time, Emel sings almost entirely in English after previously only recording a handful of tracks in the language. The choice was informed by settling in New York with her family, discovering the “essential imagery” of poets Rainer Maria Rilke, T.S. Elliot, and John Ashbury, and “thinking back to how music in English was so important to me growing up.” She initially rented a house in Woodstock, NY and set off to “write about nature as well as the beauty and struggle of these times.”

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Emel, Emel Mathlouthi – Kelmti Horra (10th Anniversary) (2012/2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Emel, Emel Mathlouthi - Kelmti Horra (10th Anniversary) (2012/2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz] Download

Emel, Emel Mathlouthi – Kelmti Horra (10th Anniversary) (2012/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:15:05 minutes | 840 MB | Genre: World Fusion, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © world village

Emel Mathlouthi released her debut, Kelmti Horra, in January 2012. The album was influenced by Joan Baez, Massive Attack, and Björk. As a politically aware musician, the songs in the album have made promising duty to speak out on any injustice that Emel has witnessed about her beloved Tunisia. While she sings about humanity and a better world, the success of this album has made her to reach many more people in different parts of the world. As the song, “Kelmti Horra” (My Word is Free), was considered as “the anthem of the Arab Spring,” it has been Emel’s most famous song so far. The outstanding success of this songs led her to perform the song on December 11, 2015, during the award ceremony of the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, which was awarded to the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet.
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