Marrakech – With “Twehechtek,” the first single from an upcoming EP, Moroccan singer-songwriter Sara Moullablad delves into the quiet terrain of emotional absence through an introspective, night-driven song.
Set for release on February 6, the track introduces a three-song EP conceived as a coherent emotional and narrative journey, where memory, absence and urban wandering intertwine.
Translated as “I Missed You,” “Twehechtek” stands out for the simplicity of its statement.
Moullablad explores a familiar inner state, one that surfaces in the stillness of the night, when silence amplifies memory and emotion overtakes reason.
Here, longing is neither dramatic nor theatrical. It is calm, lucid and accepted. Rather than singing about waiting or reunion, Moullablad focuses on the persistence of an inner presence.
The “you” she addresses remains deliberately undefined, a past love, a closed chapter, or perhaps a fragment of the self that continues to remember despite the forward motion of life.
Musically, restraint is central. Moullablad’s voice is understated, carried by precise songwriting and a nocturnal atmosphere that allows space for silence.
This first release sets the tone for the EP as a whole, with each forthcoming track envisioned as an extension of the same intimate emotional landscape.
Directed by Reda Lahmouid and filmed in Casablanca, the music video expands the song’s themes through a subtle and sensitive visual language.
Avoiding literal storytelling, the film mirrors the imperfections of memory through deliberate discontinuities, mismatched edits, shifts in location and variations in time.
These choices underscore the idea that memory is fragmented, unstable and rarely linear.
Casablanca, or Darbeïda, emerges as a character in its own right. Streets, lights and passing spaces become repositories of lived experiences, absences and emotional traces. Lahmouid frames the city as a tactile, affective material — a place shaped as much by feeling as by geography.
Opposite Moullablad, actor Ayoub Gretaa embodies an intentionally ambiguous male presence, at once there and not there, real or imagined.
This uncertainty heightens the emotional tension of the film and reinforces the song’s central idea: romantic memory is inherently unreliable.
Gretaa, known to a wider audience for his roles in “El Maktoub” and “Dem El Machrouk,” brings a restrained vulnerability to the performance.
His recent work in “La Mer au loin” by Saïd Hamich has positioned him among this year’s César Revelations. In “Twehechtek,” his quiet, internalized acting creates a carefully balanced on-screen dialogue with Moullablad, grounded in nuance and emotional honesty.
With “Twehechtek,” Sara Moullablad opens her upcoming EP on a note of intimacy and clarity, offering a reflective meditation on love, memory and the silent spaces they leave behind.
