Gnawa music is often likened to American blues and gospel. Gnawa music is a mixture of African rhythms and Islamic poetry created by enslaved West Africans brought to Morocco. For centuries, it was ...

Brooklyn Gnawa music group Innov Gnawa have gotten some recognition within the world of Western pop music thanks to their live and in-studio collaborations with UK electronic musician Bonobo, and they ...

In the late 60s and early 70s, jazz musicians popularized Albert Ayler’s notion that “music is the healing force of the universe”–which puts them about four centuries behind the Gnawa people of ...

RABAT, Morocco (Reuters) - Morocco's Gnawa, heirs to a musical and spiritual tradition brought north across the Sahara centuries ago by black slaves, are enjoying new fame as their hypnotic rhythms ...

"When I first heard Gnaoua music I heard Jimmy Blanton in the sound of the hajhouj, I heard the blues... I heard the black church..." The words of jazz master Randy Weston ring true with each ...

ESSAOURIA, Morocco (AFP) — In a riot of color, acrobatics and drum beats, Morocco's gnawa artists joyously celebrated the inclusion of their ancient art-form in UNESCO's list of Intangible Cultural ...

Bonobo is on tour now in support of this year’s Migration. Having just played Coachella (twice), he has a sold-out two-night stand at NYC’s Terminal 5 tonight (4/27) and Friday (4/28). Opening both ...

RABAT, May 2 (KUNA) -- Universal music will be the title of the upcoming Gnawa and World music festival which will be held in Al-Sawaira City west of Rabat from 22-25 of June. The 9th version of the ...

For decades, the Tangier home of Abdellah El Gourd has been a wellspring of the Gnawa musical tradition and a place of pilgrimage for jazz performers. But it has fallen into deep disrepair. By Aida ...

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