Amina Cadelli hit the big time as the singer in the wildly popular Swiss electro-pop band Kadebostany between 2011 and 2015, but her lavish talent has only truly begun to shine as Flèche Love.
She’s already released three albums under that name, along with a host of impressive and artistically accomplished videos, all of which show that she is not merely a singer of the very highest class, but a lyricist (in four languages no less) who goes all in on the latest topics in cultural politics, sexuality and love.
With her Swiss Berber heritage fully to the fore, Amina’s performances are an expression of a strong, fearlessly emotional and spiritual personality, and her expressive vocals allow her to internalise and play with a variety of richly layered musical styles. For Druga Godba, she’ll be joined by a small but formidable group of musicians experienced in bringing baroque pop and futuristic R&B together to maximum effect. A Flèche Love gig is like a novel you can’t stop thinking about long after you’ve devoured it in one sitting.
Line-up: Amina Cadelli (vocals) / Jaafar Aggiouri (guitar, clarinet) / Valentin Mussou (cello) / David Gourmandie (sound)
Sahra Halgan (Somaliland)
Sahra Ahmed Mohamoud, aka Sahra Halgan, is an exceptional musician, a passionate fighter for cultural identity and a political activist. She earned the nickname ‘Halgan’, which means ‘fighter’, way back in the 1980s, when she worked as an untrained frontline nurse during the war to free Somalilanda from the grip of dictator Siad Barré, rousing the fighters with her singing and winning the hearts of her countrymen and women. The war eventually sent her into exile in France, where the structural inequalities and marginalisation she encountered there caused her to put aside her musical ambitions for 20 years.
She then formed a band in Lyon with Maël Saletes (Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp) and Aymeric Krol (BKO), before returning to Hargeisa, capital of musically vibrant Somaliland, with a burning desire to help rebuild her homeland. The band have stayed together, toured across three continents, and last year released their third album, Hiddo Dhawr, as a quartet. Traditional poetry from centuries gone by, ceremonial, dance and love songs, rousing political content – Sahra’s voice musters all the warmth and ornamental complexity it can to convey the history of the Somali people and their place in the world, as well as their tragedies and joys, with irony, seriousness, mystery and dignity. There can be no better way to bring Druga Godba 2025 to a close.
Line-up: Sahra Halgan (vocals) / Maël Saletes (guitar) / Régis Monte (bass) / Aymeric Krol (drums, percussion)
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Organisation: Druga godba & Kino Šiška co-production
