Hasna El Becharia - Smaa Smaa
Label: Lusafrica Catalog: LUS56234-2 Format: CD El Becharia, HasnaHasna El Becharia is extraordinary. She is still the only woman in the Maghreb to play gnawi music, a ceremonial beat that has remained an exclusively male preserve since the animist beliefs of the Bilad es-Sudan, (in Arabic, the Land of the Blacks - today’s Guinea, Senegal, Mali, Niger and Chad) encountered the monotheist faith of Islam from across the desert. Price: $24.98 |