Bio

الطريق

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, all fueling 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.