Mahmoud Guinia

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist

Mahmoud Guinia from Essaouira was a maâlem, a master who leads the nocturnal Gnawa ceremony in which music puts the participants into a trance. He played the guembri, a three-stringed bass lute, and sang in a deep, raw voice, accompanied by hand clapping and iron krakebs. In 1994 The Trance of Seven Colors was released, which he recorded with the saxophonist Pharoah Sanders. In this way he became one of the best-known Gnawa voices outside Morocco.

Listening

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  Musique Tagnawite · Mahmoud Guinia, 1992
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  Soltani · Mahmoud Guinia, 2019
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  Mimoun Marhaba · Maalem Mahmoud Guinia & Floating Points, 2015
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  Saste Dima Nyou · Mahmoud Guinia, 1992

Discography

Studio albums

• 1994The Trance of Seven Colors
• 2020Aicha