Monthly Archives: March 2017

Aziza Brahim is also performing at the Brunswick Music Festival

“Queen of the desert blues and voice of the Sahrawi people”

Aziza Brahim will also be performing at the Brunswick Music Festival, Brunswick Town Hall on Thursday 16 March at 8pm.

Coming to international attention in 2014 after the release of her third album Soutak, Aziza Brahim tours extensively across the globe. In Melbourne for the first time and for one show only, the queen of the desert blues, performs music from her sublime 2016 release Abbar El Hamada.…

Powerfully voiced with arresting and spellbinding grace, Aziza’s languid laments tell of the Western Sahara refugee plight – a tale of both hardship and uplifting hope against all odds. Her music traverses an electrifying expanse between the dusty plains of her Western Saharan roots, the upbeat Latin rhythms of the Cuba of her youth and Spain, her adopted homeland.
Aziza is both a highly potent sonic poet and the voice of the Saharawi people in their ongoing struggle for recognition and justice. Innovation, truth, humility and political outspokenness are the raw materials of her vision

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Report on the January 2017 round of Gdeim Izik trial

The Norwegian Support Committee for Western Sahara

19 February 2017

 

 

 

Approximately 40 Norwegian observers participated on the trial 23-25 January 2017. Law student Tone Sørfonn Moe from Bergen has authored a long observation report about the court case.

This report is available in its entirety in the Norwegian Support Committee for Western Sahara  article here

 

Aziza Brahim performing at WOMAdelaide in March

 


 

Aziza Brahim performs at WOMAdelaide 10 – 13 March 2017

Voiced with deep passion and grace, Aziza Brahim’s music adeptly travels the expanse between her Western Saharan roots and Barcelona, where she now lives. Aziza is both a contemporary sonic poet and an eloquent spokesperson for the Sahrawi people and their ongoing struggle for recognition and justice.

For information and tickets click here