Great Lord
Oh the beautiful days! 2024
Musical reading
With Nina Bouraoui (text, reading), Souad Massi (vocals, music), Mokrane Adlani (violin) and Nazim Bakour (guitar).
Revealed in 1991 with her novel La Voyeuse interdite, Nina Bouraoui has since written a partly autobiographical body of work, of which her father, who died in 2022, was an assiduous reader, sometimes critical, always admiring. He will not read this Grand Seigneur, which the woman who accompanied him until his last days nevertheless devotes to him.
For the writer was built in imitation of her father, a brilliant economist and high-ranking Algerian civil servant, governor of the Central Bank and delegate to the Opec, admirer of Gide and lover of wine, a dandy with smoked glasses who boarded official planes in a cloud of perfume and tobacco. He has eyes only for his daughter, whose literary success is his revenge for his forced exile in France, marked by idleness and bitterness, following his disgrace in Algeria during the black decade. Nina Bouraoui recounts his twilight visits to the palliative care unit where he ended his life, his amorous escapades in Aix-en-Provence and his family memories between Paris and Algiers.
Also born in Algiers, Souad Massi has made exile one of the central themes of her repertoire. Living in France since 1999, she enjoyed great success with her first album, Raoui (2001), and gained international renown with Deb (2003). A folk-rock musician and eminent exponent of chaâbi and Arabo-Andalusian music, Souad Massi has built up a singular body of work that expresses an intimate link with literature, adapting classic Arabic poems in El Mutakallimûn (2015).
Reunited on stage with two musicians, Nina Bouraoui and Souad Massi will blend their voices to share with us this filial tale filled with the right emotion.
Co-produced with Mucem.
To read
Nina Bouraoui, Grand Seigneur, JC Lattès, 2024.
To listen to
Souad Massi, Sequana, BackingTrack/Virgin Music LAS/Universal, 2022.
Musical reading
With Nina Bouraoui (text, reading), Souad Massi (vocals, music), Mokrane Adlani (violin) and Nazim Bakour (guitar).
Revealed in 1991 with her novel La Voyeuse interdite, Nina Bouraoui has since written a partly autobiographical body of work, of which her father, who died in 2022, was an assiduous reader, sometimes critical, always admiring. He will not read this Grand Seigneur, which the woman who accompanied him until his last days nevertheless devotes to him.
For the writer was built in imitation of her father, a brilliant economist and high-ranking Algerian civil servant, governor of the Central Bank and delegate to the Opec, admirer of Gide and lover of wine, a dandy with smoked glasses who boarded official planes in a cloud of perfume and tobacco. He has eyes only for his daughter, whose literary success is his revenge for his forced exile in France, marked by idleness and bitterness, following his disgrace in Algeria during the black decade. Nina Bouraoui recounts his twilight visits to the palliative care unit where he ended his life, his amorous escapades in Aix-en-Provence and his family memories between Paris and Algiers.
Also born in Algiers, Souad Massi has made exile one of the central themes of her repertoire. Living in France since 1999, she enjoyed great success with her first album, Raoui (2001), and gained international renown with Deb (2003). A folk-rock musician and eminent exponent of chaâbi and Arabo-Andalusian music, Souad Massi has built up a singular body of work that expresses an intimate link with literature, adapting classic Arabic poems in El Mutakallimûn (2015).
Reunited on stage with two musicians, Nina Bouraoui and Souad Massi will blend their voices to share with us this filial tale filled with the right emotion.