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Festival International Nuits d’Afrique : Boulila Gnawa-rock avec Mourad Kebali au Balattou

Sun 20 Jul 2025 • 11:00 pm Afro Funk / Blues / Rock
Club Balattou - Montréal 16,37$
· by Rédaction PAN M 360

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 gnawa-rock | avec Mourad Kebali: Avec ses allures de vieux routier du rock qui en a vu d’autres, Mourad Kebali crée un blues-rock lancinant, ponctué de vibratos et de longs accords de guitare distordus que ne renierait pas Santana. Une invitation à fermer les yeux et à se laisser porter par la musique en battant le tempo.

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-rock evening | with Mourad Kebali: Looking like a rock veteran who’s seen it all before, Mourad Kebali creates a haunting blues-rock sound, punctuated by vibratos and long, distorted guitar chords that Santana wouldn’t disavow. An invitation to close your eyes and let yourself be carried away by the music, beating out the tempo.

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