Label: World Village
Category: Music
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Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
UPC: 842759200030
EAN: 0842759200030
ASIN: B000062TI7
Release Date: 2002-10-08
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Nass Marrakech
Label: World Village Category: Music Average customer rating:
Format: Live Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 UPC: 842759200030 EAN: 0842759200030 ASIN: B000062TI7 Release Date: 2002-10-08 |
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The magical participation of Omar Sosa . . ........2004-03-14
Yes, this is an authentic Gnawan band, an outfit from the deserts of Northwest Africa, playing centuries-old traditional trance music originally used in indiginous healing ceremonies. Here, the band is broadened out to include flute, mandolin, marimba, sax, violin, Bulgarian gaduka, Brazilian percussion, and piano. It's the latter instrument, played by that inimitable, iconoclastic Cuban pianist Omar Sosa, that makes this far more than just another offering of some relatively obscure example of world-folk music.
Sosa has this uncanny ability to absorb, assimilate, and almost magically transform just about any music he encounters, amply demonstrated on his own amazing recordings such as Pictures of Soul and Sentir. An example here is his astounding playing on "Hamdushi II" where his dancing, lyrical presence provides perfect counterpart to the simple chantlike basic musical materials, all the while highlighting and framing the specific toanl qualities of this music in new and adventurous ways. Indeed, his playing here is some of the very best I've heard from him on record. And though he plays on only four of the nine tunes, he's still on board for more than three-fifths of the total time because he plays on the longer numbers.
I'm sure listening to literally hundreds of hours of Sosa's marvelous playing on his own discs greased the skids for my encounter with this admittedly (to North American ears, at least) alien music. Still, it took me quite a while to totally track with their vocal approach--and I believe the very best tune on the disc is the sans-vocal song "Beyna l'Ejwan," bringing up the fascinating proposition of an entire disc of wordless tunes by this Gnawan band, with one would hope, the continued participation of Omar Sosa. Be that as it may, by means of the Sosa entree I was able to find access to what has now become one of my favorite discs. Anyone interested in world jazz will want to give it a listen.
fascinating mixture of styles.......2003-01-09
Also highly recommended is the other release by Nass Marrakech.
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