As a special closing event for this edition, we’re summoned once again for a Tekchbila Residency Showcase, bringing together Franco-Congolese DJ, producer and sound curator Tina Tornade and Sarah Mazigh, an Amazigh singer-songwriter from the Souss region, for an immersive evening of music, myth and poetry.

Moving between diasporic sounds, experimental electronic music and contemporary (post-)club culture, Tina Tornade creates sonic landscapes shaped by rhythm, movement and cultural crossings. Sarah Mazigh, meanwhile, draws on the musical heritage of her Amazigh roots, weaving Amazigh songwriting with contemporary influences ranging from jazz-funk to soul.

At the heart of this encounter lies AKAL — the land: a keeper of memories, source of nourishment, and a force that shapes our identities and sense of belonging. Building on this, the two artists open a dialogue between West African cultural expressions and our own Amazigh context, tracing shared sensibilities around ways of relating to the land.

With this residency, Tekchbila seeks to bring West African and Amazigh cosmologies into conversation, while continuing to highlight the inventive ways ancestral cultural heritage shapes contemporary artistic expression.

Harvest Festival Marrakech مهرجان الحصاد فمراكش is so happy to support this residency and showcase within the continued framing of how we enact a duty of care towards cultural and ancestral practices, not only wihtin our borders but also beyond, particularly in this case through pan african and diasporic solidarities. ♡