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Ha-bb5: A Conversation with Ikram Bouloum

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Date: 04.06.21

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Interviewers: Cecile Moroux & David Bola

Photo credit: Ana Larruy

First of all, how are you? From where are you answering right now?

Hi We Are Europe! I’m just at home in Barcelona! Feeling happy and pleased!


Your first EP "HA-BB5" was released on May 28th. Congratulations! We loved it. How does it feel?

I am so happy to finally release Ha-bb5 after one year and a half of hard work. I feel so fulfilled, especially because It has had a good welcome! It has been a long and personal process, a very intense one where I conceptualized and shaped all the narrative. Sharing this EP was one of the steps of this process.

Ikram Bouloum @ We Are Europe
Ikram © Ana Larruy

Can you describe the way you worked on this record? MANS O (part of the Faces of We are Europe!) produced it, how and when this artistic collaboration started?

Ha-bb5 has a theatrical structure, it started as a lyrical story and ended as musical materialization. I wanted to talk about my personal and inherited experience of cultural shock. It was at this point of my process that I felt the power of using my voice in my mother tongue and working in my music in a deeper way.

I have a really close relati...

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