Mustafa Baqbou *

Mustafa Baqbou
Gnawa Trance Music from Morocco

Album : Gnawa Trance Music of Morocco
مــوســيـقـى كــنــاوة مــن الــمغـــرب
Artist : Mustapha Baqbou مـصطـفـى بــاقـبــو
Release date : 1998
Label : I.M.C. Music Ltd
Number of discs : 1
Total size : 54 MB
Total time : 00:37:13

Tracks:
1. Shabek Ruu
2. Moulai Abdul Kader
3. Bouderi Bel'A
4. Bougueiri
5. La Ilaha Illa Llah

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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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