Morocco: Saha Gnawa – Daniel Freedman On the Band’s Debut Album

[Afropop] Saha Gnawa joins a long list of ensembles that offer a fresh take on the renowned healing musical tradition of Morocco and Algeria. Gnawa music, with its loping, cyclic grooves and pentatonic scales, lends itself easily to "fusions" with Western music. Artists like Hassan Hakmoun, Kateb Amazight of Gnawa Diffusion, and, more recently, Guedra Guedra, to name just a few of many examples. Anyone who has followed the Essaouira Gnawa and World Music Festival will know that jazz, rock, reggae and hip-hop