Douniah

douniah imparts her debut solo EP A Lot, Not Too Much to an unexpecting audience. Thoughtfully, the singer-songwriter invites us to embark on our own saviour. The collection of songs is steeped in artistic and emotional integrity. Production was led and executed by Dhanya Langer, one half of band project Modha, and producer of Juju Rogers’ 2019 album 40 Acres N Sum Mula. Written amid the pandemic, this piece is an effort of immense proportions - experimenting with her sound in time, wading through spirals of arduous personal challenges. ‘A first impression of how my journey sounds.

Agadir-born and Hamburg-raised, douniah engages in the practice of interpreting her spirit, impressively, in German, Darija, and English. We find here, a body of work that threads together the tenets of free-form poetry and romanticism, backdropped by neo-experimental jazz tendencies. In euphony, a worldly array of instruments act in symbiosis to carry us through A Lot, Not Too Much. douniah’s voice is one to fall into; her message is enunciated with every word, delivered delicately with an inventory of riffs and ranged tone. The utilisation of choppy, note-like, freestyles bridges the EP’s strong singles, into a rhapsodic whole.