Mezar
Analog Diwan Music
Analog Diwan Music
Mezar plays bedouin psych blues, driven by a trance with Afro-Eastern roots and analog textures. A sound somewhere between Ali Farka Touré’s desert and Elias Rahbani’s Levant. On stage, cigar box, synths, vocals, bass and drums fuel a hypnotic live show.
In 2024, with support from the Canada Council for the Arts, Mezar released the EP Sohan (the story of a Tuareg dreaming of becoming an astronaut), presented at the MaMA Convention and named a finalist for the Prix des Musiques d’Ici.
Two years later, the group returns with Under the Red Moon, a live session in collaboration with the Canadian-Jordanian label Keife Records. A residency at the Centre National de Création Musicale Voce (Corsica, early 2026), supported by the European program Rawabet, nourished new compositions: the ones performed onstage today, ahead of their recording for Nafs, a forthcoming album carried by that same trance.
Concert references : MaMA Convention (Paris, Fr), Festival Arabesques (Montpellier, Fr), Festival Gezmataz (Genoa, It), Festival Jazz et Blues de Saguenay (Ca), ROSEQ (Rimouski, Ca), Le Rendez-vous des Cigales (Beloeil, Ca), Jardins Gamelin (Montréal, Ca), FestiVoix (Trois-Rivières, Ca), Orientalys (Montréal, Ca), Tam Tam Macadam (Alma, Ca), MondoKarnaval (Québec, Ca), Fête de la musique de Tremblant (Ca), Les Escapades musicales (Brossard, Ca), Zones musicales (Laval, Ca), Festival international de jazz de Montréal (Ca), Bourse RIDEAU, Palais Montcalm (Québec, Ca), Festival international Nuits d'Afrique (Montréal, Ca), Mundial, Club Soda (Montréal, Ca), MUZ, L'Astral (Montréal, Ca), Festival des traditions du monde (Sherbrooke, Ca), Franco-Fête (Toronto, Ca), National Arts Centre (Ottawa, Ca), Festival international de la chanson de Granby (Ca), Festival du Monde Arabe (Montréal, Ca), Canada Day (Montréal, Ca), Festival Mosaïq (Moncton, Ca), Festival de la chanson de Tadoussac (Ca)