Saturday, April 12, 2008
Mahmoud Guinia
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Track 2
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Track 3
Track 4
This is the most magnificent and recommended tape I have heard in a while... enjoy this gnawa music from Morocco's Mahmoud Guinia. Google around (also under "Gania", a commonly-used spelling of his name) and you will see Guinia has collaborated with people like Hamid Drake (awesome) and Bill Laswell (interesting but less awesome). Not bad for a guy who also makes some of the illest spiritual/stoner music ever on hometown releases like this.
Thanks to Landon P for the tape!
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perhaps my favorite guinia tape from the dozen or so i bought in morocco. i don't agree that this is the "illest spiritual/stoner music ever" - but i see your point.
this is definately not the original healing music, but a hybrid of the music to the leila-ritual and various kinds of berber/north-african traditions - maybe ghania was even aware of somebody like hendrix, who visited essaouira (ghania's hometown) in the 60s.
thanks for spreading this!
this is definately not the original healing music, but a hybrid of the music to the leila-ritual and various kinds of berber/north-african traditions - maybe ghania was even aware of somebody like hendrix, who visited essaouira (ghania's hometown) in the 60s.
thanks for spreading this!
the swing on the shaker is so freaking tight it's giving me a toothache.
nice, this tape is immediately in my top five, with the Boubacar Traore, Kandja Kouyate, Ebenezer Obey, and the Charles Chepkwony/Oriango & Kipchamba combo tape.
Ata Kak just got booted from the top five. Sorry Ata!
nice, this tape is immediately in my top five, with the Boubacar Traore, Kandja Kouyate, Ebenezer Obey, and the Charles Chepkwony/Oriango & Kipchamba combo tape.
Ata Kak just got booted from the top five. Sorry Ata!
Thanks! Creative use of a blog! I member the first time I heard Guinia was on the Pharoah Sanders album (The Trance Of Seven Colors). Not as kickin as this but some how soothing to hear pharoah honk away with the ululating ladies. Big ups master shimchong!
Very hysterical. I have the exact same tape. I bought it 25 years ago in Morocco. Your tape was sitting on a shelf all that time.
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: 1:10 PM, April 30, 2008
: 1:10 PM, April 30, 2008
Most of the stuff i've picked up in Morocco have his name spelled as so:
Maâlem Mahmoud Ghania
He's incredibly prolific, hit any little record shop in Essaouira, and you'll find dozens of his tapes and cds. I even picked up a couple video cds of concerts. And I've got recording of him doing a concert in Canada, so he does get around live as well as the studio projects with Pharoah Saunders and others.
He's generally one of the most respected Gnawa guembri master playing today.
Maâlem Mahmoud Ghania
He's incredibly prolific, hit any little record shop in Essaouira, and you'll find dozens of his tapes and cds. I even picked up a couple video cds of concerts. And I've got recording of him doing a concert in Canada, so he does get around live as well as the studio projects with Pharoah Saunders and others.
He's generally one of the most respected Gnawa guembri master playing today.
Guinia is my favorite Gnawa musician, He performed at he Gnawa Music Festival in Swira. He kept it real even when he plays with international musicians!!! not like Hamid Kasri or Omar Hayat, who now do the Show
Permalink | posted by : 10:04 AM, July 02, 2008
: 10:04 AM, July 02, 2008
I just discovered your blog. It's a real magic box, thank you for sharing all this beauty!
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Permalink | posted by : 6:28 PM, October 24, 2008
: 6:28 PM, October 24, 2008
Please someone tell me where i can download more music like this.
Permalink | posted by : 3:28 PM, March 04, 2009
: 3:28 PM, March 04, 2009
I've found a couple of his CDs to download:
http://narod.ru/disk/8211337000/Gnawa%20Essaouira.rar.html
(a bit fiddly to dowload -- fill in the numerical Captcha, on next screen untick box, then click link)
http://rapidshare.com/files/164484668/emmg_-_Unknown_Album.zip
Awesome Tapes From Africa is fantastic -- more please!
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http://narod.ru/disk/8211337000/Gnawa%20Essaouira.rar.html
(a bit fiddly to dowload -- fill in the numerical Captcha, on next screen untick box, then click link)
http://rapidshare.com/files/164484668/emmg_-_Unknown_Album.zip
Awesome Tapes From Africa is fantastic -- more please!
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