Description
The album explores failure, loss, repetition and the soft absurdity of pretending everythings fine. Across 14tracks, daoud weaves tragedy and humour, chaos and tenderness, melody and noise into a rich and emotionally charged soundscape.
At its core, ok is a jazz record treated like anything but a jazz record. The foundation of the music wascreated live in the studio, together with keyboardist Leo Colman, double bassist Louis Navarro, drummerSilvan Strauss, electric bassist / guitarist / keyboardist Jules Minck and keyboardist Kuz. The editing of these recordings was more akin to a pop production, yet the sounds, pads and textures added afterwards aresubtle and refined.
The elaborate production is topped by a striking line-up of international musical guests who lend the musiceven more facets and emotions: corto.alto (trombone / GB), Rosie Frater-Taylor (guitar and vocals / UK),Mehdi Nassouli (guembri / MOR), Ludivine Issambourg (flute / FR), Teis Semey (guitar / NL), Kuba Wicek(alto saxophone / PL) and Julien Fillion (tenor saxophone / CA).
The result sounds organic and immediate, as if you feel the production more than hear it. The album blends jazz, hip-hop, rock, disco, Afrobeat and drum & bass – not as genres to explore, but as emotional textures in a broader narrative.
What emerges is a tone both satirical and melancholic, where humour masks deeper sadness, and childish playfulness veils inner tension. ok is an album of contradictions: lightness built on weight, sincerity laced with irony, warmth streaked with anxiety. Theres a deep sense of emotional dissonance – exposing what hidesbehind the act of saying ok when youre not.
Its the sound of things breaking quietly, of resilience masked by routine. This duality runs through everything daoud creates – including the visual world of ok. The album cover features a childhood photo of him, capturing the vulnerability and raw innocence that echo throughout the music, the covers of the digital singles are illustrated with simple, childlike black marker drawings. The aesthetic draws on fragility, impermanence, and the bittersweet tension between playfulness and pain.
ok is the distilled essence of that journey – sonically, emotionally, and spiritually. Contrasts and contradictions shove us and rattle us and make us feel things in the way that homogeneous environments don’t. says daoud. For me, this is where human emotions live. It is the scope and depth of emotions thatmake the album so extraordinary.
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