Yaness was born from a rapprochement between musicians from different musical backgrounds. Everyone brought their influences to enrich the compositions of Ahmed LASFER. This collective work has produced a colorful musical repertoire. It draws its roots from the music of North Africa (Kabyle music, Chaâbi, Andalusian music, music from the southern Sahara, etc.) and opens up to Mediterranean sounds and beyond.
This music accompanies poetic texts written in Berber (Kabyle) and Algerian dialectal Arabic inspired by popular daily life.
Yaness contraction of "Ya! Ness", could be translated as "O you, people!".
It is a challenge launched to the audience to invite them to listen to a song which, through a real or fictitious story, tells life, expresses a point of view or delivers a message.
Yaness is also a nod to the mythical "Goual" which has gone through the long history of North Africa. Both poet and troubadour, he brightened up public squares and enlivened cities on the occasion of major festivals. A true vehicle of North African oral culture, he moved from town to town, from village to village, carrying myths and legends from elsewhere that he staged and interpreted himself.
In its own way, Yaness is a group of "Goualines", their public square is the stage, their audience is you...
