# Nass El Ghiwane — Bouderbala

Nass El Ghiwane’s Bouderbala (1976) appears on 2 of our lists — Gnawa and 1976, highest at No. 5 in Gnawa. Every verdict, in full.

- **Released:** 1976
- **On:** Gnawa and 1976
- **Updated:** 2026-08-30
- **Artist:** [Nass El Ghiwane](https://waxonia.com/artist/nass-el-ghiwane/)
- **Canonical page:** https://waxonia.com/track/nass-el-ghiwane--bouderbala/

## What 2 lists say

### 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.

### 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.

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