Naïssam Jalal "Healing Rituals"

In response to the violence of our world, Naïssam Jalal has composed imaginary healing rituals. These “Healing Rituals” provide refuge for suffering spirits and bodies through silence, trance and beauty. Although very contemporary, these rituals are in line with the healing rituals of the ancestral and often animistic traditions that inspired them.

“Despite the anger that today's world stirs up, Naïssam Jalal stays the course of gentleness. Flutist, composer and singer, she has created, project after project, a music that returns to her instinctive strength. Untiringly. Healing Rituals is perhaps the quintessential example of this quest. Almost whispered, the music reveals itself to be a true ritual, inspired by traditional cultures and their ways of accompanying life and healing ailments. The invisible, an age-old subject for Naïssam Jalal, earned her an award at the 2019 Victoires du jazz. Her reconnection with the spirit is at the origin of Healing Rituals, bringing together different extra-Western trance traditions, aiming for collective grace.” Sons D'hiver festival