# Nass El Ghiwane — Every Record We Rank

Nass El Ghiwane appears 3 times in our Gnawa and 1976 lists, placing as high as No. 4. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick.

- **Ranked entries:** 3
- **Appears on:** Gnawa and 1976
- **Years:** 1974–1976
- **Highest placing:** No. 4 in Gnawa
- **Updated:** 2026-08-30
- **Canonical page:** https://waxonia.com/artist/nass-el-ghiwane/

## Appears on

### [Ya Sidi](https://waxonia.com/track/nass-el-ghiwane--ya-sidi/)

*1974 · No. 4 in [Gnawa](https://waxonia.com/genre/gnawa/)*

Not a gnawa group, and unthinkable without gnawa. Nass El Ghiwane put the guinbri and the ceremony's rhythms into protest songs, and Morocco has not sounded the same since.

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### [Bouderbala](https://waxonia.com/track/nass-el-ghiwane--bouderbala/)

*1976 · No. 5 in [Gnawa](https://waxonia.com/genre/gnawa/)*

Scorsese called them the Rolling Stones of Africa, which undersells the strangeness. Percussion, a banjo, and lyrics old enough that nobody is sure who wrote them.

Also on: [1976](https://waxonia.com/theme/nineteen-seventy-six/).

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### [Bouderbala](https://waxonia.com/track/nass-el-ghiwane--bouderbala/)

*1976 · Picked by [1976](https://waxonia.com/theme/nineteen-seventy-six/)*

Gnawa rhythm and Moroccan poetry played by a group Scorsese later called the Rolling Stones of Africa. Recorded with almost no Western instrumentation in a year when that was a choice, not a limitation.

Also on: [Gnawa](https://waxonia.com/genre/gnawa/).

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