Where do we go from here, my friends?
GNAWA LIVE STREAM I (
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GNAWA LIVE STREAM II ()
GNAWA LIVE STREAM III ()
GNAWA LIVE STREAM IV
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GNAWA LIVE STREAM V ()
GNAWA LIVE STREAM VI ()
GNAWA LIVE STREAM VIII
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We hoped to end this with the seventh stream,
for seven suites in Gnawa.
It's fair and fitting that
Moroccan musicians have the stage from here.
Though if you like this series, there is always
more to hear.
Seven celestial earths were borne from
the sacred dunya, an ancient
serpentine egg and our world today...hajjaj divided it.
And a trifecta of black, "red" and white yolk
cascaded down upon ancient ground.
This is Earth as we have experienced it in human form.
Dunya breached the heavenly white sea
and kept a fluffy soff on their head.
Gnawa descriptively allude to this supernatural cosmogony:
a divine AND physical journey.
That fabric held Gnawa's colors: red, brown, yellow,
green, white, black, blue and multi-colored.
Sidi Musa's sedr tree grows between our world
and the next, as prophets are mediums
like their landmarks.
Gnawa are also playing the guembri
krakeb and tbal or ganga drums
with over 100 soulful redemption songs (nubat).
Jelis from Senegambia (Mande Music)
and Hausa musicians mingled along caravan
routes to create diasporic blues.
Gnawa ritual takes us toward the stars and inner spirit.
These customs include music, spiritual preparation in offerings and praise!
This Ashantee kola nut map
illustrates the trade behind
Moroccan-West African history with Gnawa.
They were exchanged
for thousands of these and cowrie shells...
shells that still are sewn
on sheshiyat from Bambara communities
in modern-day Ghana, Mali-
the Western Sudan.
Kano Emirate was a Hausa kingdom which was near Bouala,
a town in modern-day Niger.
Muhammad al-Maghili wrote a treaty
on sharia for King Rumfa (1463-1499)
(North African Muslim Scholars...)
So North African-West African cultural interaction
has definitely shaped Gnawa and continental history,
even to this stream today.
Desert blues became a music beyond national
and physical borders: Gnaoua.
This page assembles all seven suites
throughout a recorded lifetime.
Thanks for watching Gnawa with Nikki.
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CASAOUI
Maalems Sam and Hmida Boussou
MARSAOUI
Maalem Paco, 'Laafou'
RABATI
'Derdba'
CASAOUI
DIWAN
MARSAOUI
ROUDANI
BLACK SUITE
AGADIR/FASSI
MARRAKCHI
RABATI
ROUDANI
SHAMALI
CASAOUI
MARRAKCHI
RED SUITE
AGADIR
MARSAOUI
ROUDANI
SALE
MARSAOUI
MEKNES
SALE
CASAOUI
MARSAOUI
MEKNASSI
