Bab L' Bluz - AmmA (Official Video)

AmmA is the second single to be taken from the new album 'Swaken' by Bab L' Bluz.

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Swaken is released on 10 May 2024

Directed by Karim Chater
Director of Photography: Soufiane Lachguer
Editing: Samadoss Maitoul, Soufiane Lachguer
Colour grading: Soufiane Lachguer
Stylist: DWB
Cast: Kamar Mansour, Leila El Ghazouani, Rania Hizraoui, Sanaa Elhaddad, Sara Boudaoud

Lyrics by Yousra Mansour
Composers: Yousra Mansour and Brice Bottin

Musicians:
Yousra : lead vocal, Electric mandole, percussions
Brice : Guembri, back vocals, percussions
Ibrahim Terkemani : drums, percussions

Special thanks to: Kamar, Leila, Rania, Sanaa, Sara, Joudia, Latifa, Nadine, Coline, Brahim, Othmane Bensalmia, Mhamed Menjra, Samadoss, Benjamin, Quentin , Bouch Bouch , Badreddine, Tarik, the people of Sidi Moumen.

French-Moroccan power quartet Bab L' Bluz, release the second track from their album Swaken. AmmA draws on music from north-east Morocco and influences from Tunisia and Algeria in a committed rallying call of opposition to sexist and patriarchal mindsets.

AmmA has a pent-up energy that burst into passionate ululations as singer Yousra Mansour narrates the story of mothers confronted with the realities of a society marked by injustices. "Awaken, women/Rise, women/I am not half a man/That time is over," she declaims, railing against the oppression found in archaic systems where women are deprived of education, fundamental freedoms and exposed to violence. “Everyone, repeat after us..."

Swaken, released on 10 May, is eleven tracks that spark and pulse with kinetic, pedal-to-the-metal energy. Ancient-to-future music, rooted as much in psychedelic blues, funk and rock as in the trancey, propulsive rhythms of northern Africa's Maghreb: Gnawa, Amazigh, Hassani and Houara music.

Verse 1:
Yana manchaber hwaychi o lghdayd ighelbouni yamma Yana manchaber hzani o jawi maydawi yamma x2
Yana cheft l hogra b 3ayni o dmou3ek matssali yamma Yana manti9 ghi f rebbi l3ali o hbabi o nti yamma
Tkhedmi f dar o bara o 100 rajel maywesslouki yamma Mazal nessme3 klam lwil li tgal fi wdanki yamma
Yana manchaber hwaychi o lghdayd ighelbouni yamma Yana manchaber hzani w jawi maydawi yamma
Chorus:
Wa fi9ou ya lnssa
Wa nodou ya lnssa
3la ness 3oud ana nesswa? o ktafi bektaf errjal.
Wa fi9ou ya lnssa
Wa nodou ya lnssa
3la ness 3oud ana nesswa? Hadak zman rah mcha
Verse 2
Rabbitihoum wellaw bchlaghemhoum inekrou flhssan amma Thezzi lgouffa thezzi ch9a o idallou i3aibouki yamma
O dolm li idalmou fik ra rebbi ga3ma ibghih amma Yanna manchaber hwaychi o lghdayb ighelbouni yamma
Yana manti9 ghir f rebbi l3ali o hbabi o nti yamma Yanna manchaber hzani o jawi maydawi yamma
Chorus
Bridge:
Koulchi Igoul maana Eh Eh Eh Eh x 8
Chorus

Verse1:
I cannot hold back, and my anger takes over, oh mom.
Pains weigh on me, and nothing heals my sadness, oh mom.
I have witnessed injustice with my own eyes, and your tears kept flowing, oh mom.
I've pledged to trust only in God, my loved ones, and you, oh mom.
You work tirelessly and manage the household on your own, and 100 men are not worth you, oh mom.
I still hear the insults and humiliation you endured echoing in my head, oh mom. I trust only in God, my loved ones, and you, oh mom.
Pains weigh on me, and nothing heals my sadness, oh mom.
Chorus:
Awaken, women.
Rise, women.
I am not half a man, I work just as diligently as he does. Awaken, women.
Rise, women.
I am not half a man,
That time is over.
Verse 2:
You raised them when they were little, now grown into men, they quickly forgot, oh mom. All your hard and painful work to take care of them, oh mom.
And the injustice you suffered, God will not forgive, oh mom.
I cannot hold back, and my anger takes over, oh mom.
I trust only in God, my loved ones, and you, oh mom.
Pains weigh on me, and nothing heals my sadness, oh mom.
Chorus
Bridge:
Everyone, repeat after us...
Chorus