Samira Dainan explores her roots and celebrates the healing power of music with Samira’s Blues. Her research into her Arabic, Amazigh and African heritage led her to the music of Morocco and the Sahara. Back in Amsterdam she founds the band Samira’s Blues together with guitarist Bas Gaakeer. The music relies on both the pentatonic scale and the trance-like bass and percussion, prominent in the traditional music of those places.

Their focus on original compositions and interpretation of traditional songs is strongly recognised by the scenes they work with and are inspired by.