Shems Bendali, a standout young trumpeter based in French-speaking Switzerland, draws on both jazz and Algerian traditions to shape a sound that is at once narrative and deeply expressive. Leading his quintet, he crafts a personal musical language where memory and imagination intertwine. His latest album Casbah Qassioun unfolds like a work of speculative fiction, set somewhere between the Maghreb and the Middle East, inspired by a futuristic graphic novel aesthetic that provides the backdrop for intimate, contemplative compositions.
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