Gnawa Diffusion

Souk System

Gnawa Diffusion are an important group. Important because they were able to invent a new kind of Africa, an Africa for all Africans, including Europeans. And the band’s singer, Amazigh Kateb, knows a thing or two about the multiple layers that make up our identities. Gnawa Diffusion, are indeed more than a musical fusion group: they’re their own world in circulation. These “Fucking Cowboys” couldn’t care less about the powers that be, and although they began in Grenoble, France back in 1992, they are the half-caste children of the black, Berber and Arab speaking Maghreb, of insurgent Jamaica and of western working class neighbourhoods. Onstage, they’re a formidable octet, with Amazigh Kateb on vocals and guinbri (picked lute), Pierre Feugier on guitar, Salah Meguiba on flute and percussion, Mohamed Adenour on mandol and banjo, Philippe Bonnet on drums, Pierre Bonnet on bass, Abdel Aziz Maysour on backing vocals and guinbri, and Amar Chaoui on percussion, all armed with kerbab (“rattlesnakes,” a kind of metallic castanet) that sound like they were calibrated in hell.

01. Métropole
02. Déca-Dance
03. Itchak El Baz
04. Lalla Mira El Gnawia
05. El Hadia
06. Charla Town
07. Match Bettikh
08. Douga Douga
09. Baraket
10. Ya Laymi
11. Djelsa
12. Tête à Tête Avec Baghdad
13. Saki Baki
14. Guelb Ou Dem

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