I Am Ismail, A Young Dj, Baby Oudist, from Marrakesh (Morocco)

And this is my story ;

It all started when I was staying at a hotel in Casablanca four years ago. I used to sit in the hotel at night and watch the musicians that performed every night using tam-tams. I don’t know what it was but I was very drawn to what they did and it impressed me a lot. A manager in the hotel saw my infatuation with their music and gave me an African wooden mask as a gift that I believe is the start of my music journey, that’s why my logo holds such sentimental value and means a lot to me because if it wasn’t for that gift I wouldn’t have dug deeper and made it this far. It made me curious to know more about the culture, that’s when I realised the usage of the tam-tams in music and performances done by those musicians are called tribal house. I kept looking more into it and the more I listened to the music the more I was in love with the details, the rythmes, the minimalistic lifestyle those people had. I was highly inspired by the African symbols ‘’ADINKRA’’, these symbols are used to communicate and represent parts of the people’s personal lives and what surrounds them, this is what I’m trying to do as well with my music, show the world my feelings and emotions and honour the African culture that I love so much.

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