Douniah A Lot, Not Too Much

Production was led and executed by Dhanya Langer, one half of band project Modha, and producer of Juju Rogers’ 2019 album 40 Acres N Sum Mula. Written amid the pandemic, this piece is an effort of immense proportions - experimenting with her sound in time, wading through spirals of arduous personal challenges. ‘A first impression of how my journey sounds.

Agadir-born and Hamburg-raised, douniah engages in the practice of interpreting her spirit, impressively, in German, Darija, and English. We find here, a body of work that threads together the tenets of free-form poetry and romanticism, backdropped by neo-experimental jazz tendencies. In euphony, a worldly array of instruments act in symbiosis to carry us through A Lot, Not Too Much. douniah’s voice is one to fall into; her message is enunciated with every word, delivered delicately with an inventory of riffs and ranged tone. The utilisation of choppy, note-like, freestyles bridges the EP’s strong singles, into a rhapsodic whole. The EP visualiser is a film by Elena Cremona and Nils Hansen. Burning vignettes of raw beauty and solemn growth. On the screen is a loyal translation of how douniah’s sound projects onto walls.