Resistance
Music can be an act of resistance. Even more so when you live in Le Kram, in the suburbs of Tunis, Tunisia and that you play metal music as well as gnawi, jazz or reggae.
Slim Abida is the founding member of Jazz Oil, a band with which he has toured Europe. He comes from a family of union representatives and feminists and knows too well what political commitment is about. From the early days of the Jasmine Revolution, he rallied against Ben
Ali’s dictatorial regime along with a number of artists like Emel Mathlouthi.
Fréquence basse
Today, he releases his first solo album, inspired by his roots as well as his peregrinations, profoundly jazzy yet spiced up by Northern African music and rhythms, in the manner of Richard Bona or Ibrahim Maalouf. A talent to be reckoned with.
Melmoth
A true musical chameleon, Slim Abida plays metal, reggae, gnawi, jazz and many other styles
It belongs to the closed circle of confirmed artists in Tunisia.
In 2002, he was the founder of the first Tunisian metal band Melmoth, which became one of the best-known bands on the rock and metal scene in Tunisia and also the first to play outside the borders (Algeria “Lelahel Metal International Festival” in 2002 and Morocco “Festival International Boulevard des jeunes de Casablanca in 2006).
Goultrah Sound System
In 2005, Slim Abida participated in the launch of a new project, Goultrah Sound System, a merger of gnawi, dub and reggae very popular with Tunisian audiences and multiplied stage appearances throughout Tunisia.
The band recorded an EP, 4 tracks and an album that was a real success.
Jazz Oil
In 2008, Slim Abida founded the Jazz Oil group, with the variety of its influences and with the desire to highlight the bass and bring it out of its supporting role.
When Nidhal Jaoua joined the project with his qanoun, the two artists wrote a new chapter of the Jazz Oil project.
Their collaboration was released on a first album, Lamma (Arabic Encounter), on March 25, 2016.
Slim Abida has accompanied many artists in his career. Among other things, he participated in the launch of the band Barbaroots, recorded an album with the chanter Badiaa Bouhrizi, alias Neyssatou, and an album titled Fikra (Arabic idea) with Haydar Hamdi.
