I had the pleasure of hosting an in-studio visit by members of the group Innov Gnawa earlier this week at KCRW, and I was entranced by the powerful rhythms and chants. Gnawa is Moroccan trance music, ...

Gnawa music is often likened to American blues and gospel. Gnawa music is a mixture of African rhythms and Islamic poetry created by enslaved West Africans brought to Morocco. For centuries, it was ...

For four days every spring, Essaouira, the former Portuguese fishing port on the Atlantic coast of Morocco, is taken over by the The Gnawa and World Music Festival which features masters of Gnawa ...

Brooklyn-based sextet Innov Gnawa envelops audiences in the hypnotic beauty of Moroccan Gnawa (GUH-nah-wah) music. The word Gnawa signifies not only a style of music, but also the people who created ...

In the late 60s and early 70s, jazz musicians popularized Albert Ayler’s notion that “music is the healing force of the universe”–which puts them about four centuries behind the Gnawa people of ...

RABAT, Morocco (Reuters) - Morocco's Gnawa, heirs to a musical and spiritual tradition brought north across the Sahara centuries ago by black slaves, are enjoying new fame as their hypnotic rhythms ...

Samir LanGus vividly recalls the traveling Gnawa musicians who passed through his village. As a child growing up in Morocco, he was entranced by their music and would follow them wherever they went.

I was entranced by the powerful rhythms and chants. Gnawa is Moroccan trance music, a form that that seduced many famous visitors to Morocco, including the beat poets, longtime resident author Paul ...

ESSAOURIA, Morocco (AFP) — In a riot of color, acrobatics and drum beats, Morocco's gnawa artists joyously celebrated the inclusion of their ancient art-form in UNESCO's list of Intangible Cultural ...