Sami Galbi, Roots adorned – Liberation
« I am your friend Roumi (Western, editor’s note) Who left and returned, the one called Zmagri /Look at my dear I do not choose between dad and mom, msemen or croissant, Eve or Adam … « The lyrics of Transit Already say a lot about the personality of their author, who intends to remain incassable. « This song evokes the double absence, the two cultures that live in me, the half-henled side, the sum of which is not equal to the whole. » Clearly, not really the binary style, and no question of reducing it, Sami Galbi, to gender stories, this or that style. He wants to kiss everything at the same time, knowing how to make choices. Let us call it post-modernity, that of which her music speaks, ageless synths and trap echoes tinged with autotune, folklorical rhythms struck with esoteric sounds.
Impossible to circumscribe it to Raï alone, a soundtrack anyway in itself composite. “My music is a sum of influences and experiences. The rai in the melodies, the texts, in the vocal imprint, but I also draw from the chaâbi repertoire, and from the music of my generation: r’n’b, hip-hop, house, bass music … «
The key to hearing it, it is a word that he carries as a standard of his freedom to act here and there, outside the patterns of a ready-to-think-expyment: hybridity, which refers to listening to what is currently happening in the Arab world and its diaspora. « A whole new part of current music
