{"id":59455,"date":"2020-09-17T11:55:48","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T09:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/?p=59455"},"modified":"2020-09-17T11:57:44","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T09:57:44","slug":"maalem-mahmoud-gania-aicha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/maalem-mahmoud-gania-aicha\/","title":{"rendered":"The spiritual music of Maalem Mahmoud Gania"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The king of Gnawa music rises from the dead thanks to Hive Mind Records and the reissue his album <em>Aicha<\/em>.   <\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>After <em>Colours of the Night<\/em> in September 2017, here is another reissue of the music of the late Maalem Mahmoud Gania, who died in 2015. His fascinating ritual sounds, first released on cassette in the late 1990s for <em>Aicha<\/em>, still resonate in Morocco through the Gnaoua festival in Essaouira \u2014 a kind of Moroccan Woodstock where youth dance in trance to these ancestral rhythms with healing powers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div><div><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=3181863308\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless loading=\"lazy\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maalemmahmoudgania.bandcamp.com\/album\/aicha\">Aicha by Maalem Mahmoud Gania<\/a><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>It feels like the perfect time to release this spiritual music, in times of pandemic. Maybe <em>Aicha<\/em> will enable you to carve out some healing space in amongst the chaos of the world. The album shines a light on Mahmoud&#8217;s virtuoso guimbri playing and mastery of Gnawa songcraft, and is a standout amongst his many cassette releases. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Aicha <\/em>will be reissue on October 9th on a vinyl\/record LP and digitaly via <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Hive Mind (s\u2019ouvre dans un nouvel onglet)\" href=\"https:\/\/maalemmahmoudgania.bandcamp.com\/album\/aicha\" target=\"_blank\">Hive Mind<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1010\" height=\"1010\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/73f27097-aicha-1010x1010.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-59436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/73f27097-aicha-1010x1010.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/73f27097-aicha-759x759.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/73f27097-aicha-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/73f27097-aicha-661x661.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/73f27097-aicha-465x465.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/73f27097-aicha-375x375.jpg 375w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/73f27097-aicha-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/73f27097-aicha-85x85.jpg 85w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/73f27097-aicha-73x73.jpg 73w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/73f27097-aicha.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><figcaption>                         Maalem Mahmoud Gania &#8211; <em>Aicha<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The king of Gnawa music rises from the dead thanks to Hive Mind Records and the reissue his album Aicha. 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