Nour: L’élégance des mots crus

Nour: L’élégance des mots crus

July 5, 2022

Sweet Sorrow Listening Post 350. Are the words Nour refers to in the title of her fourth album elegant because they are raw, or because they are believed—or is it both? From the lyric ambiguity we can’t be sure, and that seems to be the elegant point. The album...
Nour: Après L’orage

Nour: Après L’orage

December 4, 2018

The Poetry of Storms Listening Post 178. They can be meteorological or emotional, a vortex of personal, political or technological upheaval or even (nowadays) a whirlwind of Tweets. Storms typically require cleanup, but what about the flip side—the light that’s more...