{"id":79667,"date":"2021-05-06T14:22:34","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T13:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/sabrina-bellaouel-dak-arab-liquor\/"},"modified":"2021-08-25T10:27:23","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T08:27:23","slug":"sabrina-bellaouel-dak-arab-liquor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/sabrina-bellaouel-dak-arab-liquor\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabrina Bellaouel and Dak express the power of Arab seduction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">With &#8220;Arab Liquor,&#8221; the French-Algerian singer and the Kabyle rapper mix English and Darija in a sensual, cross-cultural marriage <\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Following her latest EP, <em>Libra<\/em>, in reference to the astrological sign, this singular artist is now back with the Algerian rapper Dak for the remix of her track &#8220;Arab Liquor.&#8221; It marks an artistic exchange between Paris, Annaba in Algeria and London, where the singer was. She explains: &#8220;<em>It is obvious that the context in which I find myself directly influences my way of producing and it is true that the fact of having recently shared my time between Paris, Rotterdam, London and the Maghreb gave a certain color to my new compositions<\/em>.&#8221; Dak transforms this ode to femininity into a darker drill universe, while releasing the bewitching, soulful quality of Sabrina&#8217;s vocals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div><div><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1211210265\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sabrinabellaouel.bandcamp.com\/album\/arab-liquor\">Arab Liquor by Sabrina Bellaouel<\/a><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/tag\/sabrina-bellaouel-2\/\">Sabrina<\/a> continues: &#8220;<em>Sensuality is something that I find beautiful and I have models of women around me who are sensual and have never been vulgar. And for me it is really that, to be a woman. At least that&#8217;s what I recognize myself in. I think it shows in the music<\/em>.&#8221; She also believes that sensuality makes you feel good about yourself, singing confidently: &#8220;<em>I bet you never had a woman like this<\/em>.&#8221; She adds that she finds &#8220;<em>extremely beautiful this hyper sensual side and at the same time very modest, very humble<\/em>&#8221; which she places in opposition to &#8220;<em>vulgarity.<\/em>&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The EP <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (s\u2019ouvre dans un nouvel onglet)\" href=\"https:\/\/idol.lnk.to\/ArabLiquor\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Arab Liquor<\/em><\/a> will be released on May 28 by <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"InFin\u00e9 (s\u2019ouvre dans un nouvel onglet)\" href=\"https:\/\/infine-music.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">InFin\u00e9<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Find Sabrina Bellaouel and Dak in our Pan African Rap playlist on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (s\u2019ouvre dans un nouvel onglet)\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/playlist\/3wKFGudR28CR8bdnMSnSXQ?si=f-Sq8RdmQGe2Q3gFYid8CA\" target=\"_blank\">Spotify<\/a> and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (s\u2019ouvre dans un nouvel onglet)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.deezer.com\/en\/playlist\/8240716902\" target=\"_blank\">Deezer<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/f340ad0b-arab-liquor.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-79633\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/f340ad0b-arab-liquor.jpg 700w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/f340ad0b-arab-liquor-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/f340ad0b-arab-liquor-661x661.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/f340ad0b-arab-liquor-465x465.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/f340ad0b-arab-liquor-375x375.jpg 375w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/f340ad0b-arab-liquor-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/f340ad0b-arab-liquor-85x85.jpg 85w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/f340ad0b-arab-liquor-73x73.jpg 73w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With &#8220;Arab Liquor,&#8221; the French-Algerian singer and the Kabyle rapper mix English and Darija in a sensual, cross-cultural marriage Following her latest EP, Libra, in reference to the astrological sign, this singular artist is now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":79635,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[4096,5499,20668],"location":[7848,7984,8230],"yst_prominent_words":[8539,9538,38417,38430,38419,38433,38431,8933,8618,9163,38418,8621,8402,20500,38432,10453,9006,12622,8412,8543],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79667"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79667"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=79667"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=79667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}