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Nass El Ghiwane

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

Appears on

  1. Ya Sidi

    1974

    Ranked No. 4 in 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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  2. Bouderbala

    1976

    Ranked No. 5 in 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.

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  3. Bouderbala

    1976

    Picked by 1976

    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.

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