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of the Week: sudani
Music and dance - these twins born out of the same egg merge in
hardly another musical style so congenially as in Gnawa music. In
the call and response between the dancer and the guiding instrument
of the music, the Guinbri, one asks oneself, who is playing the
music and who "is goiing to be played." The Guinbri drives the dancer
on who again influences the Guinbri player.
In the Sudani project, Jazz improvisation contributes an additional
element when Patrick Brennan's alto saxophone nearly takes over
the dance part and steps into a lively dialogue with M'allim Najib
Sudani and drummer Nirankar Khalsa. For the purist lover of traditional
Gnawa-sounds, this may be somewhat difficult, but the Gnawa-Jazz
fusion, which also does not neglect a hommage to Missisippi Blues,
is simply brilliant.
- Klaus Schönenberg
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