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A Vava Inouva

As kids, my brother Nassim and I loved a couple of tunes more than any other. Among them, A Vava Inouva from Berber singer Idir, released back in 1976. Recently, I got a copy of Identités, which features a more recent interpretation of the song we loved so much. I like to sing it to the little bean that is currently cooking in May’s belly, and it seems to trigger more dancing than any other melody I know. A legacy is born.

[…] According to my father, the interactions May and I are having with our little pea-in-the-pod through touch and sound have been theorized into a science called haptonomy, which was originally developed by Frans Veldman. I have no way of telling wether Veldman’s work has any merit from a scientif standpoint, but I can already report that singing Stereolab tunes when the music is playing in the background seems to trigger quite a bit of foetal activity. The much excellent BBC Radio One Sessions recorded between 1991 and 2001 with John Peele (R.I.P.) are topping the charts, trailed by Idir’s A Vava Inouva. […]