WIFA - Louken (2023)

Wifa will unveil her new album “Louken” on its digital release April 28, 2023, CD release June 2, 2023 and vinyl June 30, 2023 on Karam Prod / InOuïe Distribution. This new work will be presented live on stage on Wednesday May 31, 2023 at Studio de L’Ermitage (Paris).

Her brothers all musicians, Wifa grew up to the sound of the Beatles, the Scorpions, Bob Marley, Bob Dylan, Queen… and all the French Chanson classics. At age 10, she started discovering the pioneers of Middle Eastern Arabic music: Om Koulthoum, Abdelhalim, Warda, Najet Saghira, Fairouz, among others.

After losing her mother in 2014, Wifa began writing and composing her own songs in Tunisian (and French) in a pop/folk/Middle Eastern style. She is a guitarist yes, but at that time, singing took over. Singing became a vital need through which to share her sorrow, her hopes and her dreams.

“The album Louken is for me an extension or deep dive, an echo, of my project Entre deux released in 2018. Since I have always felt like I’m somewhere between Tunisia, my homeland, of civilization and encounters, and France with everything it has taught me, between the East and the West, between the ego and my inner self. Though also between joy and sorrow, confidence and doubt, security and fear. I embrace all emotions. It is within this movement that I grow…“ Wifa

Wifa (lyrics, compositions, arrangements and voices) surrounded herself with:
Ratchopper (arrangements), Arno de Casanove (arrangements), Daniel Malet (guitares), Arno de Casanove (keyboards and trumpet), Goulven Kervizik (cello), Souhayl Guesmi (Ratchopper) (keyboards and beats), Skander Ben Abid (clarinet) Nidhal Jaoua (qanun), Momén Mahri (guitars), Mohamed Ben Salha (Kawala) et Damien Fleau (saxophone).

Tracklist:
1.01 - WIFA - Louken (3:41)
1.02 - WIFA - Faker (3:06)
1.03 - WIFA - Had mahou (3:30)
1.04 - WIFA - Hob mkhobbi (3:36)
1.05 - WIFA - Lkitek (3:24)
1.06 - WIFA - Ye shems (3:29)
1.07 - WIFA - Nhoun alik (3:47)
1.08 - WIFA - Waktech (3:39)
1.09 - WIFA - Ye ensen (2:56)