Aicha (album)

Aicha
Studio album by
Maalem Mahmoud Gania
Released2020
GenreGnawa, Folk music, World music
LabelHive Mind Records
HMRLP010

Aicha is an album by Moroccan Gnawa singer and guembri player Maalem Mahmoud Gania. It was recorded in Gania's home town of Essaouira with a small group of supporting musicians, and was initially released on cassette in the late 1990s for distribution within Morocco before being remastered and issued on vinyl in 2020 by Hive Mind Records as the label's tenth release. Aicha is a follow-up to 2017's Colours of the Night, also released on Hive Mind.[1][2][3][4]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Spectrum Culture[5]

Spectrum Culture's Pat Padua stated that the album "finds the master in a contemplative mood suitable for a healing ritual," and wrote: "Aicha begins at a deliberate pace that slows the world to a meditative state. As the rhythms gradually accelerate, Gania and his band achieve a heightened sense of time; the album seems to follow a world that has slowed down, fallen into a state or urgency and then eventually found a comfortable daily rhythm."[5]

Kenny Perez of Radio Milwaukee called the album "a trance... dizzying and yet gentle," and described "Assamaou" as "a good place to start exploring [Gania's] hypnotic and spiritually nurturing music."[6]

In an article for Monolith Cocktail, Dominic Valvona commented: "Gania's signature instrument weaves a nice bluesy accompaniment to his soulful exaltations... It makes for a lively but soothing liturgy of entrancing adulation and praise... a Gnawa highlight, and a great place to begin discovering this immersive and special music."[7]

A writer for The Vinyl Factory described Aicha as "a masterpiece that certainly deserves Hive Mind's affectionate remaster and vinyl treatment," and remarked: "It emanates powerful energies of ritual poetry and an urgent sense of ecstatic rhythm, both of which seamlessly mingle with Gania's transcendental guimbri skills."[8]

Writing for Music Is My Sanctuary, Oli Brunetti called the album "incredible," and stated: "To these ears, 'Aicha' could arguably be the best, readily available introduction to the deeply resonating tones of the guinbri..., call & response and vocals and trance-inducing effect of gnawa music."[9]

Track listing

Side A
  1. "La Ilha Illa Allah" – 8:58
  2. "Lalla Aicha" – 7:03
  3. "Assamaou" – 7:10
Side B
  1. "Al Boudali" – 8:04
  2. "Bangara Bangara" – 6:22
  3. "El Bahraoui" – 8:04

Personnel

References

  1. ^ "Aicha by Maalem Mahmoud Gania". Bandcamp. Retrieved May 11, 2023.
  2. ^ "Hive Mind Records Celebrates 10th Release 'Aicha' from the King of Gnawa". EastEast. Retrieved May 11, 2023.
  3. ^ "Another reissue of the late, great Maalem Mahmoud Gania and the amazing 'Aicha' album – Hive Mind Records come full circle as their tenth release, like their first, is from Morocco's 'undisputed King of Gnawa music'". World Treasures Music. October 14, 2020. Retrieved May 11, 2023.
  4. ^ "The spiritual music of Maalem Mahmoud Gania". Pan African Music. September 17, 2020. Retrieved May 11, 2023.
  5. ^ a b Padua, Pat (March 16, 2021). "Maleem Mahmoud Gania: Aicha". Spectrum Culture. Retrieved May 11, 2023.
  6. ^ Perez, Kenny (April 25, 2023). "What did we pick up during this year's Record Store Day?". Radio Milwaukee. Retrieved May 11, 2023.
  7. ^ Valvona, Dominic (September 14, 2020). "Tickling Our Fancy 091". Monolith Cocktail. Retrieved May 11, 2023.
  8. ^ "Our 10 favourite new vinyl releases this week (9th October)". The Vinyl Factory. October 9, 2020. Retrieved May 11, 2023.
  9. ^ Brunetti, Oli (November 2, 2020). "Crucial Material". Music Is My Sanctuary. Retrieved May 11, 2023.

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