The Moroccan/Mauritanian sextet led by Aziz Sahmaoui perfectly embodies a crossover between the World Music song format, the Jazz explorations and the Traditional roots of its musicians. With a reputation cemented by his founding role in the “Orchestre National de Barbès”, his contribution to “The Zawinul Syndicate” and all his …

Ahwach N Tferkhine is a Moroccan traditional group from the Souss-Massa Drâa Region, featuring a choir of twelve female singers and four male percussionists, whose origins come from the Berbère Chleuh tribe – of Amazigh Culture. The choir of women stands in line, facing the audience, their heads veiled with …

From the Souss-Massa Drâa region of Morocco, Alchemy at Zahar is proud to present: Inouraz Inouraz band was created in 2006 by Khalid El Berkaoui, the band leader and three musicians from different musical influences, who developed a new concept called Amazigh spiritual music, which is based on ancient rhythms …

This european collective of Experimental / Film Noir / Jazz musicians, who started as an art project to create original soundtracks for pre existing silent movies ( Nosferatu, Metropolis ), will bring their Audio/Visual – mad scientist creation to the “Dune de Zahar” main stage. Originated by Jason Kohnen (alias …

Lee Ranaldo is a founding member of avant-garde Rock band Sonic Youth, now in 30th year; visual artist, writer, producer etc. During his career, he has also collaborated with harpist Zeena Parkins, Velvet Underground drummer Maureen Tucker, and the singer-songwriter Wooden Wand. With Sonic Youth currently on hiatus, Lee, who has …