Daoud

A self-styled enfant terrible who rejects the codes of jazz, Daoud creates music driven by a sense of inadequacy, one that shakes up frameworks without seeking to please and appeals as much to curious newcomers as to purists.

The whole is run through by a single tension: between play and gravity, chaos and tenderness, irony and sincerity.

With ok, his new album released on ACT in 2025, he delivers a personal manifesto tinged with falling and repetition, but also with the perseverance it takes to begin again.

Around the music, the artist builds a raw visual universe, marked as much by provocation as by a youthful letting-go, a return to childhood not to reassure oneself but to unearth contradictions.

Fragility, impermanence, satire: the aesthetic embraces the flaw rather than hiding it. On stage, Daoud and his group play with the rules, between contained lyricism and explosion.

They have chained together sold-out concerts and notable appearances, from Ronnie Scott's in London to the Montreux Jazz Festival, including the North Sea Jazz Festival.

In parallel, Daoud composes and produces for others, never losing the thread of a personal approach that is ever freer and uncompromising.