SOMN
SOMN erases borders: reggada meets forró, kuchek meets banda. Deep house, amapiano and percussion drift across oceans. No passport. Just sound.
Bio
SOMN makes music for a world without borders.
He hears unexpected connections everywhere: the pulse of Moroccan reggada beside Brazilian forró, the restless drive of kuchek alongside banda, or echoes of chaabi inside the rolling 12/8 feel of Cuban rumba. Not because these traditions are the same, but because rhythm has always travelled, changed and found new relatives.
SOMN imagines a different map: Morocco next to Brazil, the Balkans touching Mexico, Portugal beside Belgium. Oceans no longer divide continents — they carry sound. For centuries, people, rhythms, stories and languages have crossed the water, sometimes freely, sometimes through migration, colonisation, slavery or exile. Sounds leave one shore, transform on the way, and wash up somewhere else.
A seafaring of sound.
House and techno form the vessel, filled with live percussion, field recordings, voices and rhythms in 7/8, 9/8, 12/8 and beyond.
SOMN keeps his own face hidden behind maps and fabric. The person is less important than the music. No image to define the listener’s expectations. No nationality to put the sound in a box.
Inspired by the spirit of Manu Chao’s “No one is illegal,” SOMN believes music needs no passport either.
No borders. No fixed map. Just sound, travelling until it finds another shore.
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