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Enfant terrible who refuses the codes of jazz, daoud imagines music driven by a feeling of inadequacy, which disrupts frameworks without seeking to please and touches both curious novices and purists alike. The whole is traversed by the same tension: between play and gravity, chaos and gentleness, irony and sincerity. With ok, his new album released by ACT in 2025, he signs a personal manifesto tinged by fall and repetition - but also by the abnegation it takes to start again. All around the music, the artist builds a raw visual universe, marked as much by provocation as by youthful recklessness, a return to childhood not to reassure oneself, but to unearth contradictions. Fragility, impermanence, satire - the aesthetic assumes the flaw rather than hiding it. On stage, daoud and his group play with the rules, between restrained lyricism and deflagration. They chain sold-out concerts and notable performances, from Ronnie Scott's in London to the Montreux Jazz Festival, through the North Sea Jazz Festival. In parallel, daoud composes and produces for others, without ever losing the thread of an increasingly free and uncompromising personal approach.