Rabii Harnoune & V.B. Kuhl - Gnawa Electric Laune on Vinyl

Description

‘GNAWA ELECTRIC LAUNE’ is the magical collaboration between Moroccan Gnawa-master (maâlem) Rabii Harnoune and Frankfurt electronic producer V.B.Kühl. Recorded at Achim Sauers 7V-Studio, collectively Rabii Harnoune & V.B. Kühl have produced an LP which represents entirely new territory, building a bridge from old to new, from Africa to Europe, and from to person to person. This melange of traditional North African Gnawa music and modern club sounds results in a fascinating debut, cross-cultural friction which is electric and otherworldly. Gnawa music was exclusively played by families whose parents came from Sub-Saharan or Central African tribes to Morocco in colonial times Rabii explains, it was rare to be able to listen to Gnawa music on radio, so I started to collect rare live recordings. Rabiis mastery at the Guembri, a three-string lute and Gnawa singing (a central aspect to the culture), would lead him to play world-class festivals in Essaouira, Fes, Marrakesh, and Casablanca  all spiritual centres for the genre. V.B.Kühl realised his own musical vision and ambition when he inherited his first ghettoblaster (boombox) and bought a four-track recorder: rhythm is deep in me, and although music is not my profession, the passion never stopped.

Track Listings
Disc: 1
1 Forest - Rabii Harnoune & V.B. Kühl
2 Yomali - Rabii Harnoune & V.B. Kühl
3 Light Out Night On - Rabii Harnoune & V.B. Kühl
4 Traveller
5 Soyo
6 Invitation to Dance
7 Arabian Echo
8 Sowiyi
9 Baniya
10 Negsha
11 Zid L'mal
12 Jalaba

Disc: 2
1 Traveller
2 Soyo
3 Invitation To Dance
4 Traveller
5 Soyo
6 Invitation To Dance

Disc: 3
1 Arabian Echo
2 Sowiyi
3 Baniya
4 Arabian Echo
5 Sowiyi
6 Baniya

Disc: 4
1 Negsha
2 Zid L'Mal
3 Jalaba
4 Negsha
5 Zid L'Mal
6 Jalaba