"As a Sudanese-Italian now living in London, Amira Kheir takes influence from many different cultures and musical styles. In her debut album "View From Somewhere", she dotted between Sudanese traditional, Arabic classical music, jazz, soul and even hints of pop music and sang in three different languages. However, in her second album, "Alsharaa" (The Desert), Kheir shows an increasing maturity and decisiveness in her sound. Fewer genres are blended here - the main attention is to the melding of Sudanese music with soft jazz - and she only sings in Arabic and italian. As a result, the album feels much more focused ... The aim of the album is to make the listener feel "overwhelmed in the barren landscape of the desert" and if you think of that, the unrelenting smoothness seems to portray the undulating dunes and oppressive yet beautiful silence of an empty desert".
