Maalem Mahmoud Gania Colours Of The Night

The final studio recordings of deep, hypnotic Gnawa trance music from the late, great Maalem Mahmoud Gania.

The recordings see their first release outside of Morocco in September 2017, and will be available as a double vinyl LP, as a digital download and through streaming services. The release has been licensed from the Gania family and comes with the support of all who were involved in the original recordings. Colours of the Night is his first recording to receive a vinyl release.

The album was produced by Ali Faraoui at Plein Les Oreilles in Casablanca in 2013 and was mastered by Julian Tardo at Church Road Studio, Hove in December 2016.

The cover features the portrait photography of Nicolas Diop.

On these recordings, Maalem Mahmoud Gania was accompanied on qraqebs and backing vocals by his sons, Hamza and Houssam Gania, and by Karima el Filali, Asmae Hamzaoui, Chaimae Lofti, Ahmed Elbnoua, Mehdi Mnouer, Abdellah Malibo and Soufiane Aghmam.