Ami

North African, LA-based singer-songwriter Ami Taf Ra announces her debut album, The Prophet and The Madman, arriving August 22 via Brainfeeder. A transcendent, sonic palate cleanser that draws from Moroccan gnawa, gospel, and spiritual jazz, the album is a personal and poetic meditation on duality, healing, and ancestral memory. Inspired by Khalil Gibran’s seminal work, The Prophet, Ami Taf Ra’s album was produced by legendary saxophonist composer and her frequent collaborator Kamasi Washington. Arriving alongside the announcement is Ami Taf Ra’s powerful new single “How I Became A Madman” featuring Kamasi Washington. With soaring arrangements and entrancing emotional arcs, the track captures the tension between inner chaos and clarity—a central theme of the forthcoming album.

40 ans après la mort de Jacques Brel, son dernier ami témoigne.
Le 9 octobre 1978, Jacques Brel nous quittait, terrassé par un cancer. Témoin direct des années de la vie du célèbre auteur-compositeur-interprète, le pilote Jean Liardon, 76 ans. De toute la galaxie Brel, il est celui dont les inconditionnels du chanteur savent l'existence sans vraiment le connaître, lui le Suisse qui avait appris au grand Jacques, passionné d'aviation, à voler aux instruments, et qu'une indéfectible amitié lia. …