kassif

My Grandma always told me stories from Africa. Today, those memories have a definitive soundtrack—all those cassettes she used to play for me, spanning the central, western, and northern regions of the continent. As a jazz player, diving back into those tapes became my ultimate way to rediscover the music: playing that completely shatters the conventions I was taught, free from any obligation to traditional melodic patterns, stripped of any pre-agreed direction.