On September 20, 2019 just a week before Tunisian experimental artist Emel Mathlouthi released her latest album “Everywhere We Looked Was Burning”, the campaign Fridays for Future called for a general strike to raise a voice against climate-change. This time, not only kids were demonstrating, but adults were asked to join as well and millions around the globe took to the streets.
Artists have the opportunity to make a statement on these issues and raise awareness in order to create a forum for debate. Emel Mathlouthi is such an artist who uses her music as a way to challenge the current debates on different issues, and help to encourage people with her music.
With her newest album, Emel Mathlouthi created a concept-album revolving around nature, and raising awareness about environmental problems. In this interview she gives a background on the history of her new album and how the politics on global warming inspired her. I met her before her concert at the Fraanz Club in Berlin.
