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Mahmoud Guinia – Colours of the Night

https://amf.didiermary.fr/maalem-mahmoud-guinia-colours-night/

Mahmoud Guinia (Gania or Guenya) was born in 1951 in the city of Essaouira, the second son of a master of Gnawa music. His family of both the father’s and mother’s sides came from present day Mali. They were employed as soldiers in the sultan’s army.The Guinia family is regarded as the main representative for […]

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Music from Saharan Cellphones

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Music from Saharan cellphones is a compilation, released in 2011, of music collected from memory cards and cellular phones in the Saharan desert. In much of West Africa, cellphones are used as all purpose multimedia devices. In lieu of personal computers and high speed internet, the knockoff cellphones house portable music collections, [...]

#Compilation #DesertBlues #Mali #Morocco #Niger #Rock #Tuareg #Global

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Oum – Taragalte

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Oum El Ghaït Benessahraoui, known as Oum, is a singer-songwriter of modern Moroccan popular music. Performing and recording both in North Africa and in Europe, she mixes multiple traditional and international influences.

Soul meets Gnaoua meets Jazz in her album “Soul of Morocco” in 2013.

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Bab L’ Bluz – Ila Mata

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Traditionally reserved to men, the “Guembri,” a 3-stringed lute-like instrument that goes hand-in-hand with Gnawa music, is given a new life by Yousra Mansour creatively upping her heritage and the roots of blues.

Ila Mata is from album “Nayda!” on Peter Gabriel’s Real World label in 2020.

Moroccan-French power quartet, […]

#Blues #Gnawa #Guembri #Morocco