3roos Elneel: Alsarah the Nubian music mairmaid
The Sudanese singer Alsarah and her faithful Nubatones, continues to surf on the success of her excellent previous album, Manara, released last September, offering a new music video, and a light sound lifting to her title "3roos Elneel".
This title, which can be translated from Arabic by "the mairmaid of the Nile", has nothing comparable to "sirènes d’Alexandrie", immortalized by the late French singer Claude Francois. Guided by incisive bass, and a nubian groove both hallucinated and hallucinating, "3roos Elneel" revisits the aquatic Sudanese mythologies, exploring the phantasmagoric depths, populated by mairmaids, of the most famous river, the Nile.
An aquatic fairytale beautifully transcribed by the video made by Maryam Parwana, which portrays Alsarah and her sister, dressing traditional costumes and make-up in an underwater and algae scenery of which only mysticism sets it apart from a psychedelic Wes Anderson (see the Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou)