| Salaam at Nuits d'Afrique 2006 |
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Nazir
Bouchareb |
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| When Salaam took the stage fans familiar with
their music pushed to the front of the stage. Included in their numbers
were several children having the time of their waving a Moroccan flag.
Salaam treated the festival audience to long compositions that built in
intensity in the north African tradition featuring a beat that was made
by hand claps and hand percussion instruments as well as bass and drum.
Founded by Quebec based Moroccan musician, Nazir Bouchareb, his music is
rooted in the Gnawa tradition. He relocated to Montreal in 1992, where
he formed a traditional group playing Gnawa and Berber music, Bringing
the sounds of his native country to North America. With Salaam he
explores the relationship between Blues, Funk and Jazz and Moroccan
traditions expanding the traditions to include searing sax solos and
electric bass lines, and drums alongside of held frame drum, metal
castanets (Krakrebs), ngoni and tabla, and hadhouj, a three string bass
like instrument. The band includes: Andre Desillet on saxophone,
Adama Zon on ngoni, Thierry Arsenault on drums and Samito Matsinhe on
keyboards.
Website:
www.gnawamontreal.com |
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Cédric on bass,
Tarik on percussion and Khalil on percussion |
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Andre Desilet on
saxophone |
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Khalil on percussion |
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