Jordanian-Adiğe artist Zazuka's songs couple an impressionistic lyric-writing style with immediate, emotionally charged delivery. Her harmonic language and phrasing are influenced by many cultures, Arabic rhythmic cycles, Circassian chants, European classical music and Afro-American jazz. The culmination of these influences can be heard in her newest EP, "Azem yi Pxu", which was featured on bandcamp's "Best of July 2023" for being "...a pop record with dense tonal, rhythmic, and thematic weight". The highly anticipated sophomore EP continues to tackle themes of identity and belonging/isolation that were touched upon in her multilingual debut album "zazuka". The first single from the new EP, "Orira", was released parallel to the commemoration of the Circassian Genocide. It features a bridge in which Zazuka speak-sings in 2 dialects of the endangered Adiğebze language. She is a pioneer among female* Levantine songwriters, having produced and arranged her debut album herself. Besides taking her songs on the road as a performer, she is an accomplished film composer (credited with her birth name Zeina Azouqah), recently winning the DOK.composition award at DOK.fest film festival in Munich. She has also written symphonic orchestral works for the DFO Babelsberg and the Cologne-based state radio WDR Funkhaus Orchestra. Zazuka resides in Berlin and has also been active as a composer for theater, hybrid poetry readings with improvised music as well as a producer and arranger.