Altaf Gnawa Group

Altaf Gnawa Group
Gnawa Music from Morocco




Album : Gnawa Music from Morocco كــنــاوة . مـوسـقــى مـن الــمــغـرب
Artist : Altaf Gnawa Group مـجـمـوعـة ألْــطـَاف
Release date : 2005
Label : Arc Music Ltd
Number of discs : 1
Total size : 130 MB
Total time : 01:16:06

Tracks:
1. Baba Mimoun بابا ميمون (Father Mimoun)
2. Ben Kini بن كيني (Son of Kini)
3. Jilali Boualam جيلالي بوعلام
4. Sentir Solo موسيقى
5. Bawab Gnawa بواب كناوة (Gnawa Doorman)
6. Baba Hamou بابا حمـّو (Father Hamou)
7. El Bouhala البوهالة (Vagabonds)
8. Bouderbala بودربالة (The Man with the Ragged Cloth)
9. Mimouna ميمونة
10. Rebi Moulay ربي مولاي (God Almighty)
11. Sidi Moussa سيدي موسى (Moussa My master)
12. Hamdouchiya الحمدوشية


Gnawa as a term has meaning within meaning. It references a Moroccan ethnic minority descended from slaves taken out of sub-Saharan African empires over 500 years ago. Yet it is also a minority within itself: the fewer than 300 people who practice the Lila Derdeba ritual ceremony of spirit possession. Don’t get creeped out, though; these are musicians/healers whose entrancing sound borrows from Berber tradition, African shamanism and Arabic Islam, and it has caught non-Gnawa ears all over. The Altaf Gnawa Group has four members but sounds like 40. Their music is led by the low-pitched, rhythmic guembri (also called gimbri, sentir or hajhouj), a long-necked, three-stringed lute three or four feet in length. The melodies are intentionally hypnotic (for induction of healing trances), and driven by call-and-response singing, hand-clapping, and the large metal qraqebs (similar to castanets). Think Casablanca blues and spiritual music. Spine-tingling stuff, and that’s the point.

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