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12-659: The festival provides a platform for concerts and exchange between the mystical Gnaoua (also Gnawa ) musicians of Morocco and invited artists from abroad. In this musical fusion, the Gnaoua master musicians invite players of jazz , pop , rock and contemporary World music to perform together. The festival has attracted up to 500,000 visitors every year over four days, as many performances can be attended for free, unlike other festivals. 31°30′41″N 9°46′20″W  /  31.51139°N 9.77222°W  / 31.51139; -9.77222 This music festival-related article

24-468: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about African music is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Gnaoua The Gnawa ( / ɡ ( ə ) ˈ n ɑː w ə / ) (or Gnaoua , Ghanawa , Ghanawi , Gnawi' ; Arabic: ڭناوة ) are an ethnic group inhabiting Morocco , that had been brought as slaves from the West African Sahel . The history of

36-661: Is also part of the procession of the regular gnawa ceremony. Tucker Martine Tucker Martine (born January 14, 1972) is an American record producer , musician and composer . In 2010, Paste Magazine included Martine in their list of the 10 Best Producers of the Decade. Tucker Martine, the son of singer and songwriter Layng Martine Jr. , grew up in Nashville, Tennessee where he played in bands and tinkered with recording devices before moving to Boulder, Colorado upon graduating from high school. In Colorado, Martine

48-778: Is in the southwest of Morocco where the Gnaoua World Music Festival is held annually. The Gnawa of Marrakesh hold their annual festival at the sanctuary of Moulay Brahim in the Atlas Mountains and around the sanctuary of Moulay Abdullah bin Tsain in the village of Tamesloht , between Marrakesh and the town of Amizmiz . The festivals take place in connection with the birthday of the Prophet . The Gnawa of Khamlia hold their annual festival in August at

60-778: Is traced to parts of West Africa. After the abolition of slavery, they became a part of the Sufi order in the Maghreb . While adopting Islam, the Gnawa continued to celebrate ritual possession during rituals which were devoted to the practice of dances of possession and fright. This rite of possession is called Jedba (Arabic: جدبة ). Gnawa music mixes classical Islamic Sufism with pre-Islamic African folk traditions. The term Gnawa musicians generally refers to people who also practice healing rituals. The healing rituals have apparent ties to pre-Islamic African animism rites known as Bori in

72-795: The Gnawa is closely related to the historic Moroccan royal " Black Guard ", and the word "Gnawa", plural of "Gnawi", is derived from the Hausa language. Gnawa music was inscribed in 2019 on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. The Gnawa population is generally believed to originate from the Sahelian region of West Africa, which had long and extensive trading and political ties with Morocco . The Gnawa are an ethnic group who were brought to Morocco as slaves, and their ancestry

84-725: The Hausa culture. In Moroccan popular culture, Gnawas, through their ceremonies, are considered to be experts in the magical treatment of scorpion stings and mental illness . They heal diseases by the use of colors, condensed cultural imagery, perfumes and fright. Gnawas play deeply hypnotic trance music marked by low-toned, rhythmic melodies played on a skin-covered lute called a sintir or guembri . The method, similar to garaya in Hausa traditional music, involves call-and-response singing, hand-clapping, and cymbals called krakeb (plural of karkaba ). Gnawa ceremonies use music and dance to evoke ancestral saints who are said to perform

96-553: The healing. Gnawa music has won an international profile and appeal. Many Western musicians, including Bill Laswell , Brian Jones , Randy Weston , Adam Rudolph , Klaus Doldinger , Tucker Martine , Robert Plant , Jacob Collier and Jimmy Page , have drawn on and collaborated with Gnawa musicians such as brothers Mahmoud Guinia and Mokhtar Gania of Essaouira, brothers Mustapha Baqbou & Ahmed Baqbou , Abdelkebir Merchane , Brahim Belkani , all from Marrakesh, as well as Hamid El Kasri and Abdelkader Amlil of Rabat and

108-608: The late Ahmida Boussou and Saïd Oughassal of Casablanca, who have all participated at the annual festival in Essaouira . Some traditionalists regard modern collaborations as a mixed blessing, leaving or modifying sacred traditions for more explicitly commercial goals. International recording artists such as Hassan Hakmoun have introduced Gnawa music and dance to Western audiences through their recordings and concert performances. The centres for Gnawa music are Marrakesh , Tangier , Rabat , Casablanca , Fez and Essaouira , which

120-614: The village of Khamlia in Erg Chebbi. Finally there is also a special tribe inside Gnawa called Ganga. The Ganga are of subsaharan African origin and typically speak Tashelhait , and are found in Haha between Essaouira and Agadir and in the Sous Valley around towns like Agadir and Taroudant. They do not play the guimbri but only focus on the dance known as kouyou , playing krakeb and the large drums called tebel or ganga , which

132-593: Was a DJ at a public radio station KGNU . He would frequently play two or more records at once on the air. Martine also took courses at the Naropa Institute where he studied sound collage and befriended Harry Smith - the ethnomusicologist, artist and Kabbalist - who made a large impression on Martine. In 1993, Martine moved to Seattle , Washington where he began to combine his skills and interests. He joined Wayne Horvitz 's chamber group The 4 Plus 1 Ensemble alongside Reggie Watts where Martine's instrument

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144-697: Was a series of looping and sound manipulating devices which were fed by the groups otherwise acoustic instruments. Martine received a Grammy nomination in 2007 in the "best engineered album" category for the Floratone album with Bill Frisell on Blue Note . He has also released several albums of his field recordings. As a composer and musician Martine has released 2 albums under the recording pseudonym Mount Analog as well as Mylab (a collaboration with keyboardist Wayne Horvitz ) and Orchestra Dim Bridges (with violist Eyvind Kang ). Additionally, Microsoft called upon Martine's creativity when they asked him to help compose

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