Trans Musicales de . With her melancholy folk, Mayssa Jallad evokes the history of Lebanon

Trans Musicales de . With her melancholy folk, Mayssa Jallad evokes the history of Lebanon
Trans Musicales de Rennes. With her melancholy folk, Mayssa Jallad evokes the history of Lebanon

Meeting with Mayssa Jallad, researcher and musician, who is performing at Trans Musicales this Friday, December 6, 2024.

You live in Lebanon, how are you?

When I left Lebanon at the beginning of the week, there was already a ceasefire. We immediately felt something very strange. We realized that we were no longer in danger. But we remain worried. It’s also a lot of conflicted emotions, between gratitude and uncertainty.

Have you chosen to stay in Lebanon?

I spent more than three years in New York, including two years in college. But an existential crisis pushed me to return to Beirut to make . A certainty that I had something to do in the city I love.

How did music happen?

We listened to a lot of music at home. I first played the piano, then the guitar at 15. That’s where I started writing and composing.

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What do you mention in your album, Marjaa : The battle of the hôtels ?

I composed four ballads in an intimidating city, full of empty skyscrapers, because it’s too expensive, many homes have been destroyed. The past and the present have intertwined. Then I decided to compose and write around the Battle of the Hotels, a conflict that began in 1975, six months after the start of the civil war. Everyone heard about it, but it remained a mystery.

Was this your thesis subject in urban planning?

People instinctively want to forget the past. Music brings us closer. It is a way of preserving history, that it becomes our heritage, unites us. Because with the war, no one won, we all lost.

Friday December 6, 2024, at 7 p.m., at Ubu, free entry, www.lestrans.com

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