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Joachim Kuhn: Voodoo Sense

Read "Voodoo Sense" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
November 12, 2013

The fourth outing from German pianist Joachim Kühn, Moroccan vocalist and guembri (bass lute) player Majid Bekkas, and Spanish drummer Ramon Lopez continues the trio's exploration into free-jazz and North African roots that began with Kalimba ( ACT Music, 2007). The percussion and rhythms of the Magreb were more prominent on Out of the Desert (ACT ...

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Mabrouk

By Majid Bekkas

Label: Bee Jazz
Released: 2012
Track listing: Banya; Fangara; Mabrouk; Salya; Masmoudi; Bala Moussa; Le Monde à l'envers; Hommage aux ancêtres.

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Majid Bekkas: Mabrouk

Read "Mabrouk" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
January 26, 2012

Bekkas is a leading Gnawa musician who sings and plays the oud, as well as acoustic guitar and guembri, the three-stringed bass-like instrument that provides the trance- inducing pulse of Gnawa music. The Gnawa, in turn, are spiritual brotherhoods formed in Morocco among slaves brought there from sub-Saharan Africa over the centuries. Bekkas has collaborated with ...

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Chalaba

By Majid Bekkas

Label: ACT Music
Released: 2011
Track listing: 1. Enjoy - 05:12; 2. Asmaa - 07:02; 3. Back to Normal - 04:37; 4. Play Golf in the Fresh - 04:41; 5. Chalaba - 09:54; 6. Soon in June - 06:52; 7. Hamdouchia - 05:14; 8. The Second Egg - 05:41; 9. Mimoun Saadiyamou - 04:54.

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Joachim Kühn - Majid Bekkas - Ramon Lopez: Chalaba

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 22, 2011

Dopo Kalimba e Out of the Desert, è questo il terzo CD del trio Joachim Kühn - Majid Bekkas - Ramon Lopez edito dalla Act in cinque anni e non è insignificante il fatto che, come quello immediatamente precedente, esso sia stato prodotto dagli stessi musicisti, a dimostrazione di quanto essi credano nel loro sodalizio. Tutto ...

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Chellah Jazz

August 15, 2010

By Mehdi El Mouden To share passion for music is to play jazz in Chellah, the site is historic and the music is anthological. Chellah, the old historical city of Merinids in Morocco, Rabat hosts a jazz festival every year in June. Musicians come from all around Europe to meet Moroccan musicians for an unprecedented encounter ...

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Out of the Desert

By Majid Bekkas

Label: ACT Music
Released: 2009
Track listing: 1. Foulani (M. Bekkas) - 06:41; 2. Transmitting (J. Kühn) - 09:53; 3. One, Two, Free (J. Kühn) - 12:29; 4. Sandia (M. Bekkas) - 07:38; 5. Seawalk (J. Kühn) - 07:42; 6. Chadiye (M. Bekkas) - 08:27.

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Joachim Kühn - Majid Bekkas - Ramon Lopez: Out of the Desert

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 18, 2009

Al primo ascolto di questo CD è sorta spontanea una domanda di carattere etico-contenutistico. All'inizio ed alla fine del lungo e avvincente “One, Two, Free," a firma di Kühn, la voce salmodiante di uno dei due cantanti, presumibilmente Majid Bekkas, inneggia ad Allah ed al profeta Maometto; la stessa cosa accadeva in “Hamdouchi," brano contenuto nel ...

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