The Moroccan group of the 70s Nass El Ghiwane is known for having invented a full-fledged style, the ghiwani. For forty years, the pioneers of the genre have been mixing poetry, popular songs and engaged in gnawa trance and the melodies of guembri and banjo.
In addition to having influenced legends like Jimi Hendrix, Bob Marley, the Rolling Stones or Robert Plant, many filmmakers, writers and musicologists such as Martin Scorsese, Georges Lapassade or Juan Solo have taken up their music.
Last March, two escapees from the group, Allal Yaala and Redouane Raifak, returned to the front of the stage under the name of Nass El Hal, and released a brand new intergenerational project entitled “Quand Comprendras-tu? ”
Today, to ensure that the transmission to the youngest takes place, the Nass El Hal call on several producers and producers of the French and international electronic scene from the Maghreb to remix some of their songs.
The Tunisian producer based in Brussels Sofyann Ben Youssef lent himself to the game, combining electronic music and traditional music as he does so well with his project Ammar 808. It is with revolving synths and hypnotic bass Berbers that he shapes this reinterpretation of “Ma Bqa Khire”. The result, to be discovered above, is intoxicating, electrifying.
The EP of remixes is coming soon to Alter K.