Gnawa

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Gnawa


Album: Gnawa Vol.3
Label: Fassiphone
Genre: Gnawa
Time: 00:46:57
Total size: 75,4 MB

Individual Track Details:
1.Vunkri Vunkri
2.Lala Mera
3.Al-afou Ya Maulana
4.Salli Ala Nbina
5.Lbaneh

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The oldest ancestors of Gnawa Spirituality are the Soudani, who have travelled the Sahara in camel caravans for thousands of years as traders. As a means of surviving the harsh desert conditions during their extensive journies, they developed a method of transcedence which includes dance, incense, food and music.
Gnawa are also the decendents of slaves trafficked from West Africa - specifically Guinea and Ghana (some people say the name "Gnawa" is a combination of these 2 countries names) to Muslim North Africa. These North African slaves found and fused the Soudani transcendentalism with Yoruba, Sufism, the Old Testament and Islamic spiritualities, resulting in a traditional healing spirituality, GNAUA or GNAWA, which is manifested through the healing Lila Ceremony.
The primary instrument of the Gnawa is the sintir (also called guimbre and hahjouj), a 3-stringed bass lute covered by a camel-skin head, which doubles as a drum. The Ma'alem, or master musician, will always play sintir and sing lead vocals. He is joined by several Qraqb (metal castanet) players who sing the chorus, and often put down their castanets to perform polyrhythmic handclaps, and dance. In a full Lila ceremony, a priestess will lead the dance. During the ceremony, people may go into trance and - as in Haitian Vodou - their bodies will be inhabited by the saint who is being called by the music. The Lila cycles through a series of colors - red, blue, light blue, yellow, white, black. Several saints are associated with each color. Incense is used throughout the ceremony, and in many cases an animal will be sacrificed before the ceremony begins.
Gnawi currently live and practice in Northern African countries, including Morocco, Tunis, and Algeria. There are different sects, each featuring their own Ma'alems and styles. Each June there is a very popular festval of Gnawa music in Essouiera, Morocco, which features Ma'alems from all over North Africa. The festival also features Gnawa fusion ensembles from other parts of the world.
For a more detailed exploration of the Gnawa, please visit Rodrigo Dorfman's site:

The Cyber Gnawas:

http://home.mindspring.com/~cybergnawas/

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Gnawa – Home Songs


Album: Gnawa – Home Songs
Date of release: 2006
Label: Accords Croisés
Catalog #: AC 117
Genre: Gnawa
Time: 00:57:20
Total size: 134 MB

Individual Track Details:
01. Merchane Family - Chalabati
02. Hamid Kasri - Aicha Hamdouchia
03. Collectif - Bouyandi
04. Zef Zaf - Foul gnawa
05. Hassan Boussou - Katib Allah
06. Abdelkader Merchane - Hamadi
07. Collectif - Bangoro
08. Abdelkebir Amlil - Instrumental
09. Hamid Kasri - Hamdouchia
10. Amida Boussou - Boulila
11. Zef Zaf - Tombouctou
12. Collectif - Sidi Koumy
13. Hassan Boussou - Soye
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Intimist blues-like songs from Black Africa by a special collective of great Moroccan gnawa voices.

Performers:
Hamid Kasri, Amida et Hassan Boussou, Abdelkebir Merchane, Zef Zaf, Abdelkader Amlil

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Majid Bekkas
African Gnaoua Blues

Album : Afrikan Gnaoua Blues
Artist : Majid Bekkas
Release date : 2001
Number of discs : 1
Genre : World
Total size : 96,8 MB
Total time : 01:10:26

Tracks :
1. African Blues
2. Mrhaba
3. Hamdouchi
4. Youbadi
5. Balini
6. Daymallah
7. Sandiye
8. Galou
9. Soudani Manayou
10. Mawama

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Majid Bekkas, oud and guembri virtuoso, guitar professor and singer, has long been a star in his home country Morocco. Over the last few years, he has found his way into the European jazz scene through his collaborations with Archie Shepp, Louis Sclavis, Flavio Boltro or Klaus Doldinger. Abdelmajid Bekkas was born and still lives in Salé, Morocco. He studied classical guitar and oud at the National Conservatory of Music and Dance in Rabat and learnt Gnawa music through the teachings of the master Ba Houmane. Gnawa appeared in the 16th century. During the conquest of Sudan, Ahmed El Mansour Dahbi set up the first trading and cultural links between Timbuktu, near Zagora where Bekkas comes from, and Marrakech. The secular music is still considered the "healer of souls" from Essaouira to Marrakech, easily understandable when you listen to the spellbinding sound of Bekkas´ voice, guembri and guitar. Like a watermark, the mystery of Africa can be felt in the backround, alongside the blues. Gnawa´s intact purity is the essence of the authenticity. By claiming to be part of Africa, the mother of the blues and ist numerous offspring such as funk, Bekkas is placing Gnawa in its primary dimension. By opening the spectrum (including elements of contemporary western music), Bekkas attains a universal status that is nurtured by the path he travelled. These include: jazz, alongside pioneers such as Peter Brötzmann, Archie Shepp, Flavio Boltro, Louis Sclavis.
With "Daymallah" Bekkas represents Morocco on the award-winning CD compilation "Desert Blues 2". He already performed at several international festivals, such as WOMEX Sevilla 2003, Gaume Jazz Festival, Huyart Festival, Grenoble Jazz Festival, Festival de Essaouira, ...
Bekkas´ openness and ability to balance modernism and memory with a rare talent that knews no compromise, frees the music from the stamp of time. The memory is that of pain and wisdom, of songs that come from the slaves of Africa.

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El Maallem Mahmoud Gania
Gnawa Essaouira


Album : Gnawa Essaouira
Artist : El Maallem Mahmoud Gania
Release date : 1999
Number of discs : 1
Genre : Ethnic
Total size : 99,2 MB
Total time : 00:54:10

Tracks :
1. Djeema Moroc
2. Essaouira
3. Moulay Idriss
4. I Moussam Tan Tan
5. Aid El Kebir
6. Moulay Bousselham

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Part of a family of well-respected musicians and instrument makers, Mahmoud Ghania has become one of foremost exponents Gnaoua ceremonial music (In the 16th century, the Gnaoua came to Morocco as slaves from Mali and Guinea). His main instrument is the guimbri, a deep-toned, three-string lute that usually is heard atop a chorus of metal clappers called krkbaks and the occasional bendir frame drum and ghaita horn. And while Ghania often plays in traditional Gnaoua settings, he has also contributed to hundreds of sessions by both Berber orchestras and pop contingents in Casablanca and Marrakesh. This 1999 recording finds Ghania performing six traditional Gnaoua pieces, including two mesmerizing long-players which open the disc. The album title is in reference to Ghania's birthplace and home, Essaouira; it's the Gnaoua people who reside there that he celebrates in this fine collection.
~ Stephen Cook, All Music Guide

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Sekouba Traoré & Mahmoud Ghania
Wlad Bambara


Album : Wlad Bambara ( The Sons of Bambara)
Artists : Sekouba Traoré (Mali) & Mahmoud Ghania (Morocco)
Release date : 2000
Number of discs : 1
Genre : Ethnic
Total size : 153 MB (mp3), 505 MB (FLAC)
Total time : 01:06:23

Tracks :
1. Gnawa – Salata Annabi (Gnawa percussion Elada)
2. Bambara - Komafoly
Noumoufoly
Djandjo
Touloukou
Bakoroba
Saya (the death)
3. Gnawa – Kalibou Zouma
Tora Tora
4. Bambara – Solo Sekouba Traoré
5. Bambara & Gnawa – Saya
Sibayi
Djidja
Mouga Mouga Bolila
6. Ensemble – Sibayi
Mouga Mouga Bolila
Marhaba

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This disc contains the registration of a concert given by Sekouba Traoré and Maleem Mahmoud Ghania on May 17 and 18, 2000. at “Zuiderpershuis”, Antwerp, Belgium.

Gnawa people are Morrocan descendents of black African slaves, who have maintained a spiritual and musical tradition that is an amalgam of Sufi mysticism and elements of West African spirit religion. The music is haunting. It is a vocal music, driven by an instrument called the guimbri...a bass lute with gut stings and a head made out of camel hide. The musician plucks the strings and slaps the head to create a sound somewhere between a bass guitar and a drum. The rest of the ensemble consists of a responding chorus who accompany the music with hand claps and Krkaba, loudly resounding hand cymbals. The music is equal parts Sufi ceremonial music and West African drum ritual. On it's own the music is compelling.

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