Nass El Ghiwane

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Nass El Ghiwane
General information
origin Casablanca , Morocco
founding 1971
Current occupation
Omar Sayed
Allal Yaâla
Abdelkrim Chifa
Rachid Batma
Hamid Batma
former members
Laarbi Batma
Abderhmane Kirouche
Da'dua
 Boujmii Hgoura
Abd el-Aziz Tahiri

Nass El Ghiwane ( Arabic ناس الغيوان, DMG nās al-ġīwān ) are a Moroccan music group founded in Casablanca in 1971 , also known as the "Rolling Stones of Morocco". She makes use of a broad repertoire of traditional Moroccan and African music, such as the ritual music of the Gnawa , and in turn influenced the development of modern Maghebrin pop music Raï .

Is run Nass El Ghiwane from Bendir poker players and singers Omar Sayed , next to him are the Oud poker players Allal Yaala, the Banjo poker players Abdelkrim Chifa and the brothers Rachid and Hamid Batwa with their instruments T'bol and Gimbri currently members of the group. The poet and composer Laarbi Batma , who died in 1997, had shaped the group for a long time and also wrote the majority of their pieces of music.

In Europe and America, the group is mainly received in the context of world music . In this context, Peter Gabriel also published her piece Ya Sah on Passion - Sources , the additional album to the film soundtrack of The Last Temptation , and made it known to a wider Western audience.

Internationally released albums (selection)

  • Traditional Music & Songs (1995)
  • Best of Nass El Ghiwane (1998)
  • Nass El Ghiwane (2000)
  • Le Meilleur de Nass el Ghiwane: Maroc Chants d'Espoir (2001)

literature

  • Gazzah, Miriam, Rhythms and rhymes of life (music and identification processes of Dutch-Moroccan youth) , Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2008, p. 87.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nass El Ghiwane on qifanabki.com