Daoud - Festival Éclats d'Émail 2026

An “enfant terrible” who defies the conventions of jazz, Daoud creates music driven by a sense of incongruity—music that breaks the mold without seeking to please, and resonates with curious newcomers and purists alike.

The entire body of work is permeated by a single tension: between playfulness and gravity, chaos and gentleness, irony and sincerity. With %AB ok %BB, his new album released by ACT in 2025, he presents a personal manifesto tinged with failure and repetition—but also with the self-sacrifice required to start over again.

Around his music, the artist constructs a raw visual universe, marked as much by provocation as by a youthful sense of letting go—a return to childhood not to seek reassurance, but to unearth contradictions. Fragility, impermanence, satire—the aesthetic embraces imperfection rather than hiding it.