Music
Performance

Aïchoucha

Khalil Epi

Date and Time:: Friday 6 Mar, 7-8pm
Location:: Minassa

Aïchoucha is an immersive film concert that explores Tunisian musical memory through the lens of contemporary creation.

At the crossroads of documentary, musical performance, and audiovisual spectacle, the project highlights the voices, gestures, and rituals that have shaped an essential part of Tunisia’s sonic heritage.

Conceived and directed by Khalil Epi, composer and electronic music producer, Aïchoucha weaves a powerful dialogue between traditional music (female vocal repertoires, rituals, popular songs) and modern electro acoustic textures. On stage, images filmed at the heart of territories and ceremonies unfold in large format, while the music is reinterpreted live, creating a deep and enveloping sensory experience.

The project questions transmission, the role of technology in preserving regional musical culture, spirituality, and the transformation of heritage in the contemporary world.

It is not a simple tribute, but a living reinvention, where past and present echo each other through a bold cinematic and sonic writing.

Presented notably at the Gaîté Lyrique in Paris, Dream City, D CAF, Nuits Sonores in Lyon, the Festival d’Arles, in Marseille, and at No Border in Brest, Aïchoucha has generated strong enthusiasm from audiences and professionals alike for its artistic singularity and emotional power.

More than a performance, Aïchoucha is a journey, an immersion into the Tunisian musical soul, where image, sound, and ritual merge to offer a rare immersive experience that is at once intimate, poetic, and deeply contemporary.

Doors open at 6.30pm; performance starts at 7pm and finishes at 8pm.

Composer, multi-instrumentalist, and video artist Khalil Hentati (EPI) stands as a leading figure in the contemporary electronic reinterpretation of traditional and popular music. His soundworld moves fluidly between electronic, improvised, club, and classical music, weaving bridges between heritage and modernity with rare coherence and emotion.

He is also a member of the duo Aïta Mon Amour with Widad Mjama and of Frigya with Imed Alibi.

Aichoucha, his immersive creation blending live music with a documentary film he directed himself, has been widely acclaimed by artists, institutions and audiences for its innovative approach to North African sound and memory.

Over the years, he has collaborated with a wide spectrum of artists, dancers, and musicians, including N3rdistan, Dhamma, Deena Abdelwahed and Arabstazy, while exploring creations across image, contemporary dance, animation, orchestration and opera arrangements. He co-manages the Franco Tunisian label Shouka, home to artists such as Ammar 808, Nuri and Deena. Deeply involved in the development of the Arab worlds electronic and innovative music scene, he organizes events, gatherings and platforms for exchange. He is also the co founder of Mottamar, the Arab Congress of Electronic and Innovative Music.