Aziz Sahmaoui and University of Gnawa: Aziz Sahmaoui and University of Gnawa – review

(General Pattern/Discovery)Aziz Sahmaoui is one of Morocco's great fusion exponents. He grew up in Marrakesh listening to the music of the gnawa, the religious Sufi groups whose ancestors were brought across the Sahara as slaves from Africa. Then he moved to Paris where he became a founder of the rousing Orchestre National de Barbès, who mix reggae and chanson with north African influences, and later he worked with that great jazz keyboard player, Joe Zawinul. There are reminders of all of th...

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