Bab L' Bluz - Gnawa Beat (live at Institut du Monde Arabe)

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Bab L' Bluz perform the opening track of their album Nayda! live at the Arab World Institute in Paris. An excerpt from the band's set for Concerts Volants (ARTE Concert).

Bab L’ Bluz are reclaiming the blues for North Africa. Fronted by an African-Moroccan woman in a traditionally male role, the band are devoted to a revolution in attitude which dovetails with Morocco’s ‘nayda’ youth movement – a new wave of artists and musicians taking their cues from local heritage, singing words of freedom in the Moroccan-Arabic dialect of darija. Ancient and current, funky and rhythmic, buoyed by Arabic lyrics, soaring vocals and bass-heavy grooves, Nayda! seems to pulse from the heart of the Maghreb.