Nazar – Demilitarize

The title Demilitarize sounds like a statement against the war rhetoric that has flared up again since the beginning of the year. But unlike his 2020 debut, Guerilla, Nazar’s second album is not an examination of war, but of himself, of illness after a long battle with recurring tuberculosis following COVID, of vulnerability and inner turmoil. Songs like »War Game« use war metaphors (»10 pills for 6 months as artillery«) to describe what is happening in his own body and draw comparisons to his Angolan family’s experience of war. His music, which he once described as »rough kuduro,« becomes more intimate. More forgiving, one might say, because you don’t judge yourself so harshly.