Mesk Elil is the third album of Souad Massi, the Algerian-born, Paris-based singer-songwriter, following her 2004 album Deb. The album peaked only at #56 on the French albums chart, but remained on the chart for almost ten months, and won Victoires de la Musique World music album of the year. Mauritanian vocalist fr:Daby Touré, fr:Pascal Danaë, a French-born musician of Caribbean ancestry and Mino Cinelu on percussion are a few of the artists appearing on the recording.