Archie Shepp "Gnawa Fire Music" - Live at Jazz à Porquerolles Festival / director, Frank Cassenti ; Malika Guinea, Mahmoud Guinea, Abdellah El Gourd, Archie Shepp, Tom McClung, Jean-Jacques Avenel, Hamid Drake.

[Place of publication not identified] : OLEO Films, 2011.

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"Alongside the biggest names in Gnawa music from Essaouira and Tangier (Mahmoud Gania, Malika Gania and Abdellah El Gourd), stands the great Archie Shepp, who, based on a sharp and happily transcendental jazz, never ceases to denounce injustices against black people. On one side, Gnawa coming from Morocco and from the city of Essaouirra looking for trance by the means of their legendary percussion. On the other, one of the greatest saxophonists in jazz history. Their meeting has more than one meaning: the Gnawa brotherhoods descend from sub-Saharan slaves brought to Morocco from the twelfth century to serve the edification of the Maghreb Muslim empire. Jazz comes from the sons of African slaves into the United States. Especially, if jazz does not, as opposed to Gnawa music, have a religious aspect, the two cross in their approaches as both free and strictly coded. In urgency, spontaneity, and in their meditative aspect. In dance as in trance. Marion Paoli".

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