“Money”, Ibrahim Maalouf’s dystopian indictment

After the song El Mundo celebrating unity, sharing and inclusion, written and sung by Brazilian artist Flavia Coelho and arranged by French DJ Tony Romera, Ibrahim Maalouf unveils another track from his new album due in November. This time he invited the producer and MC Erick Arc Elliott aka Erick the Architect, co-founder of the rap group Flatbush Zombies, this Brooklyn native loves jazz, house, neo soul, raggae … The clip directed by Andy Koeger stages him as a more powerful character, directing the actions of passers-by with a joystick, causing general panic before losing control and finding himself trapped . Criticizing a system that allows some people to exploit others, in the name of money, Ibrahim Maalouf explained that “The idea is to imagine people as pawns, controlled and controlled, like in the movie The Matrix. Erik immediately liked the concept. :

CASH is one of the parts of the album Capacity for Love which invites to accept the other and to love him in his difference, an ideal world in which Ibrahim Maalouf would dream to live. That’s why she wants to work with artists far from her musical environment, one, two or three guests per song like De La Soul, D Smoke, Gregory Porter and JP Cooper….The actress concluded that Sharon Stone the album with a text that she wrote. to the music of the trumpet.