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Festival International Nuits d’Afrique : Boulila Fusion gnawa avec Jean-Philippe Grégoire au Balattou

Thu 17 Jul 2025 • 11:00 pm Afro Funk / Afrobeat / Blues
Club Balattou - Montréal 16,37$
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Le gnawa. Un rite, une musique, des danses. Un art inscrit au patrimoine culturel immatériel de l’humanité de l’Unesco. La mémoire ancestrale, mystique, d’une ascendance d’Afrique sub-saharienne. Profondément ancrée dans la tradition, portée par les vibrations graves des cordes du guembri et le son claquant des karkabous, amplifiée par des répétitions entêtantes, ferment d’une transe libératrice, la musique de Boulila, lauréat des Syli d’or de la musique du monde 2021, renouvelle les codes de ce genre à la fois festif et thérapeutique par une instrumentation alliant guitare, saxophone, basse, piano et batterie, révélant l’africanité des musiques populaires occidentales.
La versatilité des rythmes marocains sera à l’honneur de ces trois soirées étoilées où Boulila jammera avec trois émissaires de la scène montréalaise.
Soirée fusion gnawa | avec Jean-Philippe Grégoire: Ce guitariste jazz formé au Conservatoire de Paris, détenteur d’une licence en musicologie de la Sorbonne, et passé par la Berklee College of Music à Boston, “essaie d’intégrer des éléments d’improvisation jazz à la musique traditionnelle gnaouie, tout en veillant à en respecter l’intégrité”.

Gnawa. Ritual, music, dance. This artistic form of expression, inscribed on UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, stems from a distant and mystical cultural memory rooted in sub-Saharan Africa. Boulila’s music is strongly grounded in tradition, carried by the low vibrations of the guembri’s strings and the clinking of the krakebs, and is amplified by intoxicating repetition and the ferment of a liberating trance. Winners of the 2021 Syli d’or de la musique du monde, the group revisits the conventions of this festive and therapeutic musical genre with instrumentation that combines guitar, saxophone, bass, piano and drums, exposing the African roots of popular Western music.
The versatility of Moroccan rhythms will be the focus of these three star-studded evenings, as Boulila jams with three emissaries from the Montreal scene.
Gnawa Fusion evening | with Jean-Philippe Grégoire: This jazz guitarist, who trained at the Conservatoire de Paris, holds a Musicology degree from the Sorbonne and studied at Boston’s Berklee College of Music, “tries to integrate aspects of jazz improvisation into traditional Gnawa music, while taking care to respect its integrity.”

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