Nass El Ghiwane

Nass El Ghiwane (نَاس ٱلْغِيوَان) is a Moroccan musical group, born in the 1970s in Casablanca in the popular Hay Mohammadi district, initially composed of the six musicians Laarbi Batma, Allal Yaâla, Moulay Abdelaziz Tahiri (Pioneer of the Nass El Ghiwane movement and Jil Jilala), Omar Sayed, Raifak Redouane, Mohamed Akhdim and Boujmîa Hagour. Nass El Ghiwane's repertoire is drawn from the melting pot of Moroccan culture and poetry, but also from Sufi texts from great religious figures of Islam. Thanks to their committed and poetic lyrics reflecting the discomforts of Moroccan youth of the time and their powerful rhythms, played using traditional instruments, they revolutionized Moroccan and Maghreb music and left an indelible mark on the landscape. culture of the country. The famous American director Martin Scorsese called the group the “Rolling Stones of Africa”. Peter Gabriel, who will compose the soundtrack for his film The Last Temptation of Christ, will be inspired by the song "Ya Sah" for one of his compositions, and will then appear in the album "Passion - Sources", which is a compilation, companion of the original soundtrack disc “Passion”, with different pieces of traditional music from the Arab and Oriental world that inspired it.