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Maâlem Mahmoud Guinia (1951–2015)

Essaouira Gnawa ritual master whose three-string guembri bass-lute voice anchored Morocco's all-night Lila healing brotherhoods.

Moroccan Gnawa ritual master Maâlem Mahmoud Guinia

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Moroccan Gnawa ritual master Maâlem Mahmoud Guinia
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Born in Essaouira (Mogador) on Morocco's Atlantic coast as the son of Maâlem Boubker Guinia and a descendant of enslaved Malian Bamana soldiers, Maâlem Mahmoud Guinia mastered the full nocturnal derdeba / Lila ceremonial sequence of seven colour-coded spirit suites (mlouk). 1

Driving call-and-response iron qraqeb clapper polyrhythms with deep percussive strokes across the camel-hide neckless guembri lute, he remained Essaouira's foremost ritual custodian while recording benchmark acoustic sessions archived worldwide. 1

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Gnawa Ritual Music & Nocturnal Lila Brotherhoods
Essaouira & Marrakech, Morocco · Music
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Morocco
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What’s on this page is sourced from the citation below.

SourcePublisherLicence
Gnawa — UNESCO Representative List Dossier 01170UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage, 2019—
"Maâlem Mahmoud Guinia (1951–2015)." Folkroom Archive (Artists), https://folkroom.org/artists/maalem-mahmoud-guinia · CC BY-SA 4.0.