Artists: Maalam Hamid el Kasri (Morocco) & Karim Ziad (Algeria) 
Album Title: Yobadi (2011)
Track Title: Bania
Gnawa & Jazz Fusion ! Enjoy ;)

Hamid el Kasri & Karim Ziad == Bania

The album Hali contains the original song hali that means my spiritual state and it’s about the difference between the gnawi that stays home keeping the rituals, and the ones that left home but kept the spirit.the rest of the album are gnawa songs were chosen from the gnawa repertoire to showcase through rhythms and melodies ,although the lyrics are in Arabic , there are few african worlds that kept among songs .its about the slaves been separated from their families and leaving their lands , passing through though times , marking the roads in their chants , that represent the journey from darkness to light , from sadness to happiness, from slavery to freedom.

Hamdouchia

In Essaouria town there are many sellers...

Many Sellers.MP3

This track is a love song I wrote and recorded just before our wedding. It’s not the final version💗

Featuring keyboards from Anders Olinder
Tabla and Bells by Jeevan Singh Chauhan
Calabash kit by Omer Makessa 
Recorded by Will Angeloro in Frome 

'Shelter' - lyrics

All your love, your sweet love, your love
Your love will never go astray from my heart
No your love will never go astray
My love is open - heart

Your love is my shelter
Your love is my room in from the cold
Your love is my anchor coming from the bow
Your love is my shelter
It's somewhere that I find myself whole
and home is where I'm going
I need to come back to you, ooh yeh, your love

Your love is my shelter
Your love is my room in from the cold
I will be your shoulder, to lean on through the storms
You are my only love, my truth and my best friend
Don't you worry cause I'll never hurt you
and I wanna say, that before I grow old and weary
I promise you I'll never ever go astray
I'll never go astray from your love my dear
I will never go astray from your love my friend

Do you know me? Do you, do you know me well? 
Ah, Ah oooh yeh oooh

You give to me, hey
You give to me, give to me that something 
Give to me that something -
Early in the morning light, bathe under heavens skies
I wanna be your lover I, wanna be your lover I
I'm gonna be your wife, I'm gonna give my life
This time, full time, I'm gonna be your mirror
River....

Your love is my shelter
Your love is my room in from the cold
Your love is my anchor
Coming from the bow (of my ship)
Your love is my shelter
Its somewhere that I find myself whole
and home is where I'm going
I need to come back to you, ooh
Only you...

All lyrics by Chloe Rose Laing (c)

Shelter

Mohamed Errebbaa was born in Rabat, Moroccan musician and Master in the GNAWA world. He spent a decade travelling throughout Morocco, studying the diverse regional musical traditions under some of the leading musicians in the country. In southern Morocco, Issawa,  and Deqqa folkloric percussion, becoming especially passionate about the three-stringed Gnawa bass lute, the Guembri, before launching his international career.

Receptive to the fusion of musical genres, he has collaborated with many leading international artists. He worked and performed with artists Trevy Felix, Nelly Stharre, Antonia Vai, Hamid Bouchnak, Martin Signeur and Justin Adams, mixing traditional African music with the sounds of the wider world.

Mohamed has already performed at several festivals worldwide including Shambala, Greenbelt, WOMAD, Bergenfest (Norway), Busan (South Korea), Festival internationale de percussions sousse (Tunisia). 

Mohamed ERREBBAA & Tagna Groove band is the fruit of a project funded by Art council UK and led by Mohamed to give a platform to Gnawa music and expose this traditional music in a modern way with UK based talented musicians. 

soaring vocals and bass-heavy grooves. Get ready for a night of global music that will see intensity, power chords and stories of arrival and departure.
This performance will harness the deep trance power of the Gnawa repertoire and will showcase the old African funk, blues, jazz, bringing elements of trance to lift the spirits and dance.

Hamdouchia

MOHAMED ERREBBAA & TAGNA GROOVE

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