Naïssam Jalal & Rhythms of Resistance

In 2011, Naïssam Jalal formed the cosmopolitan quintet “Rhythms of Resistance” with four other talented musicians. The multiplicity of contributions and influences passionately combines influences and registers, and fascinates. The sense of rhythm, the fullness of impulse and improvisations, that weave together the links between jazz and classical music, Western music and classical Arabic music, provide the opportunity for so many mirror crossings between aesthetic fields. « Rhythms of Resistance » remind us that, beyond any logo or slogan, resistance is an eternally new, salubrious and salutary idea that refuses the formatting of the sensible. Naïssam Jalal & Rhythms of Resistance’s both albums « Osloob Hayati » (2015) and «Almot Wala Almazala » (2016) have been enthusiastically received by the press and public alike, winning her several awards : Charles Cros Academy Award 2017, “4 F” Télérama, “4*” Jazz Mag, “Indispensable” Jazz News for “Almot Wala Almazala”’s album and CitizenJazz Best band Award 2017.  A third album “Un Autre Monde” is released in 2021 around a double repertoire. Naïssam Jalal composed and arranged this new repertoire for symphonic orchestra: “La Symphonie d’Un Autre Monde”.