Maalem Mahmoud Guinia – Marhaba
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In March 2014, James Holden and Floating Points were invited to the Fellah Hotel, nestled at the foot of the Atlas Mountains just outside Marrakech, to participate in a week-long residency collaborating with the legendary Maalem (Master) Mahmoud Guinia from Morocco’s Gnawa musical tradition.
The product of a single days outdoor recording session on a makeshift poolside setup, communicating entirely through a translator, their success in melding together these two disparate musical traditions in such a seamless fashion is surely a remarkable achievement. “It’s because we’re all playing together and are open to each other’s ideas that it actually worked,” Floating Points told Red Bull Music Academy’s Kat Leinhart, who accompanied the producers throughout the course of their Moroccan trip (as documented in her illuminating article ‘The Hal of Gnawa’).
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