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SIYA becomes the story of three musicians who merge their worlds, memories, and journeys into a fluid, border‑crossing sound that transforms heritage into a living, shared creation.
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🌅 Hami Hamoo – SIYA, a New Album Shaped by Journeys, Memory, and Movement

Africa Echoes Through SIYA

In Africa, Hami Hamoo reveals one of the deepest roots of the SIYA universe — a track where Burkina Faso’s pulse rises to the surface and anchors the trio’s border‑crossing sound. The song acts as both a compass and a memory stone, carrying the warmth of Moussa Koita’s homeland while opening space for Habib Meftah’s trance‑driven breaths and Michael Havard’s wandering saxophone to weave around it. Within the broader narrative of SIYA, Africa becomes a grounding force: a reminder that every journey begins somewhere, even when the music moves freely between continents. It embodies the album’s essence — a shared creation where worlds merge, traditions converse, and the road becomes a place of transformation rather than departure.

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“Some albums don’t just begin — they open a road.”>

With SIYA, the trio Hami Hamoo offers a debut that feels like a crossing rather than a release — a borderless, memory‑rich journey where movement, heritage, and modern soundscapes merge into their most intimate and expansive project yet. Rooted in lived experience and shaped by years of artistic exploration, SIYA stands as a testament to the power of encounter: between cultures, between histories, and between three musicians whose paths converged to create something unmistakably their own.

🌍 A Trio, Three Continents, One Shared Pulse

There are albums that feel like destinations. SIYA belongs to that rare lineage — works that do more than present songs; they open a passage. A passage between lands, languages, bodies, and stories. The trio Hami Hamoo was born from the meeting of Moussa Koita, Habib Meftah, and Michaël Havard, three artists whose backgrounds span Burkina Faso, southern Iran, and France. Each carries decades of musical experience: Koita with his roots in Mandé traditions and contemporary West African songwriting; Meftah with his mastery of trance‑driven Iranian percussion and ritual rhythms; Havard with his deep grounding in jazz, improvisation, and global collaborations. Their union is not accidental — it is the result of years spent navigating festivals, residencies, and cross‑cultural projects across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. Together, they weave a musical dialogue where ancestral memory meets modern expression, where tradition breathes through experimentation, and where the human voice becomes a bridge between worlds.

🎧 SIYA – A Living Conversation, A Growing Legacy

Hami Hamoo is not simply a trio — it is a living conversation shaped by movement, curiosity, and shared listening. Moussa Koita brings the warmth of Burkina Faso, with rhythms that walk, dance, and tell stories shaped by griot lineages and contemporary diasporic influences. Habib Meftah, a key figure of southern Iranian percussion, channels trance, ancient breaths, and ritual memory, drawing from Bushehri traditions while collaborating with global artists across electronic, folk, and experimental scenes. Michaël Havard bridges these worlds through saxophone, improvisation, and a sensitivity honed through years of jazz exploration and intercultural ensembles. Their sound is shaped by collaborations with dancers, filmmakers, and musicians from across the globe — encounters that have expanded their palette and deepened their artistic identity. SIYA captures this evolution: a music that circulates, breathes, and connects, carrying the trio’s legacy forward while honoring the roots that shaped them.

🚶‍♂️🌬️ Routes, Encounters, and Open Roads

Now available on all platforms, SIYA unfolds like a sonic travel diary. Each track seems to say, “The journey begins today.” Listeners encounter landscapes, inner voices, traces of celebrations, marches, departures, and reunions. The album reflects years of touring, residencies, and shared experiences — nights spent improvising, days spent listening to elders, and countless moments where music became a language beyond words. The trio explores what is transmitted when borders are crossed: rhythms in motion, memories responding to one another, and a music born from passage, encounter, and the road itself. SIYA is not a nostalgic project — it is a forward‑looking one, rooted in the belief that cultural heritage is alive, porous, and constantly transforming.

🎥 SEFAR – A Visual Doorway Into the Album

The music video SEFAR, now online on YouTube, extends this aesthetic of movement. It offers a poetic visual language where bodies, gestures, and landscapes become instruments in their own right. The clip reflects the trio’s long‑standing collaborations with visual artists and choreographers, who help translate their sound into motion and imagery. SEFAR is an invitation to follow the road, to listen to what travels between worlds, and to experience SIYA’s spirit through movement and light.

SEFAR: https://youtu.be/7bKeYD5rR_I
SIYA: https://bfan.link/siya

🎤 A Live Celebration at Au Fil des Voix

To celebrate this debut album, Hami Hamoo will perform on February 4 at Le 360 Paris, as part of the Festival Au Fil des Voix — a key platform for global and contemporary musical creation. This release party promises communion, dance, and shared energy, offering audiences the chance to experience SIYA in its full, powerful, live dimension. On stage, the trio expands their universe with improvisation, extended instrumentation, and moments of collective trance — a hallmark of their evolving artistic identity.

✨ Between Tradition and Invention – A Music That Connects

With SIYA, Hami Hamoo offers a debut album that does not aim to represent cultures, but to let them speak to one another. Their music refuses to remain static — it circulates, transforms, and invites. The trio stands at the crossroads of heritage and innovation, carrying forward traditions while opening new pathways for contemporary global music. Their legacy is already taking shape: a sound that honors the past, embraces the present, and imagines the future.

Salam. Ani Soroma. Bonjour.

Three greetings, three entry points into a shared world.

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SIYA: Shared Creation Merging Worlds

✨ The Birth of a New Shared Artistic Identity
SIYA is not just a debut album — it is the crystallization of a long, almost invisible process of cultural negotiation between the three musicians. Behind the scenes, Koita, Meftah, and Havard spent years shaping a shared musical language that didn’t exist before they met, inventing a new grammar where Burkina Faso, southern Iran, and jazz traditions could speak to one another without hierarchy. This demanded trust, vulnerability, and the courage to unlearn parts of their own training. The real secret is that SIYA captures the moment when the three artists let go of their individual identities long enough to create a fourth one — the identity of the trio itself. That is why the album feels fluid, borderless, and alive: it is not a collage of influences, but a new ecosystem born from years of improvisation, shared meals, late‑night conversations, and the kind of deep listening that only happens offstage.

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