Emel Mathlouthi - Everywhere We Looked Was Burning on CD

Description

Tunisian-born/New York-based experimental singer Emel Mathlouthi presents her new album Everywhere We Looked Was Burning, via Partisan Records. For the first time, Emel sings almost entirely in English after previously only recording a handful of tracks in the language. The choice was informed by settling in New York with her family, discovering the "essential imagery" of poets Rainer Maria Rilke, T.S. Elliot, and John Ashbury, and "thinking back to how music in English was so important to me growing up." She initially rented a house in Woodstock, NY and set off to "write about nature as well as the beauty and struggle of these times." Emel's last album Ensen in 2017 was produced with Valgeir Sigurson (Sigur Ros, Feist, Bjork), and earned profiles with NPR Music, Pitchfork, The Fader, The Guardian, Brooklyn Magazine, Nowness, WNYC + lots more. She was also recently featured in NPR Music's '200 Best Songs By 21st Century Women' feature. Emel rose to fame after a video of her performing her song "Kelmti Horra (My Word is Free)" generated millions of views throughout the 2011 Tunisian Revolution. That song served as the anthem for the Arab Spring, gave its name to her debut album 'Kelmti Horra', and took her to the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize Concert where she performed it to thunderous applause.

TRACKS

Rescuer
Footsteps
Womb
Wakers Of The Wind
Merrouh
This Place
A Quiet Home
Ana Wayek
Does Anybody Sleep
Everywhere We Looked Was Burning