More than 5 years have passed since Kamilya and Werner produced their first album « Wameedd », they have more than hundred shows together during this period, in different parts of the world.
Such continuous "live" and alive process has greatly shaped and strengthened their musical interplay. Simultaneously, it allowed them to learn more on each others' roots, and enabled them to find additional common playgrounds despite the differences of their origins.
This, as well as their shared common vision of the world , has augmented their desire to keep searching for new challenging spaces that would provoke, at the same time invite them to take more risks and more freedom in their expressions.
"Wanabni" process started as an attempt to reply to a question Kamilya and Werner asked themselves: how would we play today the song "Al Shaatte Al Akhar" (one of their tunes that their audience mostly liked) after having played it so many times .
This route necessitated an up grade of their tools as well as their ways of using them ; and their continuous work slowly grew to be their new repertoire that they based on classical Arabic music, modern classical music of the 20th century, jazz and electronic music. An outcome that once again deserves a definition that goes far beyond a shallow or simplistic "exotic oriental -European fusion" one.
Parallel to the musical evolution, and following their wish to have a natural coherent growth of their project, Kamilya and Werner have revisited the same poets they collaborated with in 2003 for Wameedd, namely Fadhil Al Azzawi, Aïcha Arnaout, Sawsan Darwaza, and have chosen texts that were written by those poets since then/after 2003.
Kamilya and Werner have revised the same book ‘Hommes de l'autre rive' of Dimitri Analis- the only poet they do not know in person, and of it, they selected an other part that links up with/recalls « Al Shaattee Al Akhar ». They as well combined some texts of the poet Hassan Najmi - with whom Kamilya has collaborated, for her last solo project Makan.
Consequently, the storyline of Wanabni embodies some recent reflections of those contemporary poets.
