New Music From Morocco on Calabash Music

Randy Weston

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:51:26 -0600

Native of Brooklyn, New York, where the culture of jazz is most deeply set in people's minds, Randy Weston passes on a musical variety both through his Jamaican origins and through the African cultural inheritance shared between jazz and Caribbean music.

Driss El Maloumi

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:51:26 -0600

A native of Agadir, Morocco, Driss El Maloumi is one of the most talented oud players in his generation.

Ensemble Ibn Arabi

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:51:26 -0600

The Ensemble Ibn Arabi is a wonderfull and atypical band which is devoted to the Sufi tradition.

Naguila

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:51:26 -0600

Naguila is a judeo-arabic band, two french sepharade jews and two muslim morrocans. They play a music that is rooted in the comon history of their comunauties.

Gnawa Njoum Experience

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:51:26 -0600

10 musicians and Dj producers from Paris join together with Essaouira’s Gnawa Njoum (Morocco) for a colourful confluence of traditional and electronic musics.

Ray Lema

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:51:26 -0600

Ray Lema is one of the most prolific and powerful West African musicians. He has a passion for cultivating blend as an art, to launch into audacious rapprochements and impossible implants is second nature to him.

Shlomo Bar & Habrera Hativeet

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:51:26 -0600

The music of percussionist Shlomo Bar combines eastern and western instruments producing a unique form of Israeli music.

dj Cheb i Sabbah

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:51:26 -0600

A unique artist who creates bridges between cultures

Maalem Mahjoub

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:51:26 -0600

Maalem Mahjoub Khalmous is one of today's great Gnawa masters. Born in 1947 in Marrakech in the former black slave neighborhood, Master Mahjoub was brought up in the traditional world of the Gnawa linked to the royal palace.

Dalinda

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:51:26 -0600

Dalinda’s music draws on various Bedouin influences from the Libyan, Moroccan and Algerian deserts incorporating some of the grooviest performances by top musicians from Egypt and the Middle...