{"id":99777,"date":"2022-02-23T11:53:11","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T10:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/?p=99777"},"modified":"2022-02-23T12:08:10","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T11:08:10","slug":"jawhar-tasweerah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/jawhar-tasweerah\/","title":{"rendered":"Tasweerah, twelve dark gems from Jawhar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><strong>Jawhar, a Tunisian songwriter based in Belgium, will be releasing <em>Tasweerah<\/em> on 18th March, his fourth album situated somewhere between dark rock and wistful folk. Read on for further information.<\/strong><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>If you look somewhere between Timber Timbre, Warren Ellis, and Nick Drake, you will find <a href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/\/?s=Jawhar\">Jawhar<\/a>. After <em>Winrah Marah<\/em> released in 2019, the tunisian songwriter\u2019s fourth album <em>Tasweerah<\/em> comes out at the end of March. The albums is made up of twelve dark pop-folk gems, and sung in Arabic. \u2018Bringing all these songs to completion was not an easy task\u2019, admits the singer. \u2018Many of them are about their own genesis. <em>Tasweerah<\/em> means portrait, image or projection of the mind. Each of these songs contains a story of the struggle for beauty.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finely arranged and intimate, his new opus is a cabinet of very personal curiosities, taking in both snap shots of images, and wandering imaginings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jawhar Basti grew up in Rad\u00e8s, a suburb south of Tunis, his mother an Arabic literature professor and lover of music and poetry, his father a life-long theatre devotee. At the age of twenty, Jawhar left to study English in Lille, and developed a passion for theatre and poetry, particularly the works of Emily Dickinson and William Blake. He became a singer and opened for Susheela Raman and Keziah Jones. He has remained faithful to the cha\u00e2bi (\u2018popular\u2019 in Arabic) side of Tunisian culture, but is now firmly attached to the folk scene, and especially to its wistful and more melancholic sensibilities. <em>Tashweerah<\/em> will be released on Friday 18th March 2022.<br><br>The songwriter will be performing his fourth album on stage on 8th April 2022 at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cafedeladanse.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Caf\u00e9 de la Danse<\/a> Paris (in the 11th arrondissement).<\/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-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Jawhar - Schizo Hyout (Official Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/chq5OhCeu4M?feature=oembed&#038;autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Jawhar &#8211; Schizo Hyout (Official Video)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Jawhar_Window_300dpi%C2%A9Silvano_Magnone-1-copie-1010x721.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-99784\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><figcaption>\u00a9 Silvano_Magnone<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jawhar, a Tunisian songwriter based in Belgium, will be releasing Tasweerah on 18th March, his fourth album situated somewhere between dark rock and wistful folk. 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