FLEE project is a independent cultural platform managed by Olivier Duport and Alan Marzo, which is dedicated to the documentation and enhancement of hybrid cultures.
They have having previously explored Italian rituals and Kenyan Benga. The label also hosts regular artist retreats as part of their Extra Muros sub-label. Now they released Nahma: A Gulf Polyphony /نهمة: تعدد الغناء الخليجي“ to celebrate the music and song of the pearl divers from the Arabian/Persian Gulf.
“The pearls of the Gulf have stoked the imagination and desire of people around the world for centuries, their magnificence matched only by the courage of the divers who found them,” Olivier says.
The double LP consists of undisclosed recordings (the first ever done on the phenomenon) captured on sea by Poul Rovsing Olsen in the late 1950s and reworked by Tomaga, Ben Bertrand, Joakim and more. Listen below.