gnawa – mudd up!

Episodes

1. 4

   GNAWA STEPPAS

   Bob Marley casts a long shadow. Most reggae influenced music from locales without a substantial Caribbean population takes its cues from roots reggae. In much of the world, it’s as if 1985’s Sleng Teng revolution never happened, with ‘reggae’ bands still playing cover songs from twenty or thirty...

   May 15, 2009
2. 3

   OUDADEN MEMORY DEPOT

   [français] Spacious and peaceful, gentle Amazigh production from one of the big groups in this style. Banjo, reverb, delay, more reverb, more delay, and those hard-panned drum machines. [audio:Oudaden – Track 03.mp3] Oudaden – track 3 i’ve been jamming to this song for awhile, thinking it was...

   Jan 2, 2009
3. 2

   SUMMER MIX, GNAWA, GONG

   okay, its only late May, so other contenders will surely emerge. But for now – mix of summer! Chief Boima & Sogui So Good : Baobab Connection vol. 2. thanks Lamin!, who posts some excerpts & writes: “Boima continues with his versions and refixes, and Sogui So Good picks up right where Boima left,...

   May 29, 2008
4. 1

   MAHMOUD GANIA

   Maâlem, MC, master of ceremonies… this cassette rip is a double rescue – I dubbed it to digital before lending the tape to C, who briefly enjoyed the gnawa tape before getting robbed in El Parque de la Ciutadella by a quiet purse-snatcher. the leader is Mahmoud Gania, one of the more famous...

   Nov 26, 2007