INTERVIEW
S3NS ? The title of Ibrahim Maalouf's eleventh album might seem to be an obscure code name. You have to understand Sens , explained the musician to Bernard Poirette in the morning of Europe 1. "I returned the E to make a 3. There are plenty, lots of reasons behind. to connect the three meanings of the word 'meaning' because for me, they are indissociable (...) I let people think about it ", completes the musician, enigmatic.
Barack Obama, a "very musical voice"
The content of the disc is much more limpid and takes a turn towards South America. The trumpet player delivers the album he wanted to "do for a long time" but without daring. "Because it's more like a jazz trumpet player of Arab origin, it's not totally false, but it's not quite true either, we have a good part of our family in South America. For years, I have been working with South American, Cuban, Argentinean, Brazilian musicians, there was a moment when it was necessary to go out, "he explains.
South America, its music and more generally, its culture and its news infuse the disc. In Una rosa blanca , the opening of the album, we can not miss the voice of Barack Obama, taking up a poem by José Marti offering the Cuban people a message of peace. "His voice is very musical, it's a great solo," says Ibrahim Maalouf about the former president of the United States. The rest of the record is instrumental and gives pride of place to the four-piston trumpet, invented by the musician's father. Then, another voice is heard, encrusted in last track. That of Salvador Allende, former Chilean president.