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Artist:	GNAWA BAMBARA
Title:	Sidi Mimoun
Label:	DUNYA RECORDS (ITALY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	FY 8116CD

"Partly recorded in the studio and partly a live recording, Sidi Mimoun features a number of tracks chosen from Gnawa Bambara's vast repertoire and provides an opportunity for an authentic musical encounter with one of the most interesting and culturally and spiritually fertile North African traditions. Hailing from Casablanca, the Gnawa Bambara are one of the most important and esteemed brotherhoods in Morocco. Descended from black slaves from sub-Saharan West African countries such as Mauritania, Senegal, Mali and Guinea, they continue to perpetuate an ancient, deeply rooted tradition born from the union of their ancestral practices with Islam's most esoteric branch, Sufism. Founded on music and dance their rites and liturgy have what might be called therapeutic aims, serving to reintegrate and rebalance the human body's fundamental energies while at the same time reconciling and allying them with the spirits of possession through ascension to a plane of mystical ecstasy!"

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