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MOGADOR
- (album - Gnawa All
Stars) 2000
Gnawa (or Gnaoua) fusion - world music from Morocco:
acoustic traditional north african spiritual music mixed
with groove and modern instruments. Gnawa music is a
very ancient spiritual music played by brotherhoods
of nomadic musicians.
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A musical meeting between
musicians from Morocco, France, Algeria and England. This
is about the traditional music of the Gnawa brotherhood of
Morocco.
Mogador is the ancient name
given to Essaouira. This mythical town of south Morocco was
compared to the Tombouctou harbour. That is why most of the
Gnawa people are living in this town. The Gnawa people come
from the Guinea empire (today Senegal, Guinea, Mali). In the
16th century, they have been deported in North Africa as slaves
of rich sultans and integrated this new culture and religion
into their own. Just like the Haitian voodoo or the Brazilian
candomblé, they use to express themselves playing music,
singing, dancing, and by rituals of possession which induce
the trance.
At the origin of the group
Mogador was the meeting between Ali (addicted to the Moroccan
band Nass el Ghriwane) and Julian (strongly influenced by
Hendrix) in a bus to Essaouira. In this town, they learned
Gnawa music with Hassan a member of the Gnawa brotherhood.
He introduces them to the traditional instrument of the Gnawa
called sintir : three strings stretched over a camel skin
that produces an infra-bass sound which leads the dancers
into the trance.
Back to France, they create
the group Mogador with Sihem and Yves. After a serie of gigs
in the North of France, they start a collaboration with Peter
and Ben from London to create a cross cultural music where
the traditional music of the Gnawa meets jazz, groove and
world music.
Know
more about the Gnawa people
Musicians
and their traditional instruments
The
possession ritual (lila de derdeba
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Album available to download
on iTunes 
Julien
Raout
Sintir, djembe, electric guitar,
backing vocals
Abdul Mohamed
Lead vocals, qarqabu, sintir
Sihem Merad
Lead vocals, backing vocals
Peter Dry
Drums, keyboards, bass &
double bass
Ben Viellefon
Electric, acoustic & classical
guitars, derbouka
Luc Viellefon
Soprano saxophone
Yves Leguilcher
Derbouka
Produced and arranged by
Peter Dry & Benoit Viellefon
2000 © JohnJohn records
Recorded at the "Cuincy
Villa" France, Essaouira Morocco
Mixed at JohnJohn Records Studio, London, UK |
