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Description: On April 25th, 2014, we recorded Mourad Belouadi in his ancestral town of M'hamid El Ghizlane, at the southeastern edge between Morocco and Algeria.This is the first of 10 songs we recorded, and it is a traditional Gnawa song.nnGnawa music has its roots in the slave trade, which displaced many Central and West Africans (mostly the Fulani people) to North Africa.Over the years it has mixed pre-Islamic African traditions with classical Islamic Sufism, and today can be found mostly in Morocco a
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