The opening line of Mezar‘s has been sung in the Taguerabt region of southwestern Algeria for generations: a diwan poem telling the story of creation and the four scriptures delivered to humanity. Algerian composer, vocalist and guitarist Chakib Kouidri built his band around this kind of source material, and here he sets it against desert blues guitar, analogue keyboards and rhythms pulled from Sub-Saharan trance traditions.

The track comes from Under the Red Moon, a live session album recorded in Toulouse in May 2025 and released track by track on each full moon, a release schedule that suits the project’s sense of cyclical time. The band’s line-up for this session places Kouidri’s voice and guitar alongside Elsa Corgié on keyboards, Arthur Rendu and Mounir Hachemaoui sharing bass duties, and Pablo Giusiano on drums.

The diwan tradition, rooted in the trans-Saharan movements of people and spiritual practice, already carries a universalist logic: it absorbs, it transmits, it holds multiple worlds inside a single ceremony. Mezar extends that logic forward, treating the story of the four revelations across Judaism, Christianity, Islam and the Psalms as a shared inheritance.

Under the Red Moon, supported by SACEM and Keife Records and filmed with sound captured at Studios de l’Imprimerie and Music’Halle in Toulouse, represents the culmination of a trajectory that the Franco-Algerian band began with their Sohan EP in 2024 and developed through their residency under the European Rawabet programme.

Stream and listen to “Four Revelations أَرْبَعَةُ كُتُبٍ” HERE