EMEL MATHLOUTHI What’s your current favourite song to perform live?

is a singer known for her protest songs Ya Tounes Ya Meskina (Poor Tunisia) and Kelmti Horra (My Word is Free), which became popular during the 2010-2011 Tunisian revolution.

How would you describe your sound? I would say it’s very cinematic, organic and raw. Sometimes a bit experimental, sometimes punkish.

If your music was a food item, what would it be and why? Maybe it would be the Tunisian dish Mloukhia. It’s very dark and thick but oh how delicious, it can be spicy and it seems that your plate is never ending… The first song on my set is a hybrid creation born out of a live improvisation. I use sketches of one of my favourite Jeff Buckley songs, New Year’s Prayer. It starts: ‘Oooh, fall in light, fall in light…’ I think it’s the most beautiful entry to the space in between sky and earth: the stage.