Crimi is all about the soul that flows, the kind of groove that oozes the sticky funk of New Orleans and the influences of Algerian raï, not forgetting the less upbeat, more melancholic passages. Crimi is above all a personal story: that of a kid growing up in Lyon whose Sicilian grandmother hummed tunes from times gone by. This is how the saxophonist and singer Julien Lesuisse fertilises found his groove, which he likes to call Sicilian soul. It is also unsurprising to hear oriental styles here, a lyricism in full bloom that references Lesuisse fertilises’ trips to Oran with Mazalda.