The foremost musical form of the Aissawa is without a doubt the Hadra, a collective experience centred on the Dikr, rhythmic liturgical chants. Its rhythm stems from human breathing and often leads to collective trances. This CD is the fruit of recordings taken from a show in Rabat and from sessions in the studios of the RTM, the result of the musician’s ears open for each other, of an unusual exchange between two jazzmen and an ethnic group based around jazz readings of Aissawas traditions, arrangements of jazz compositions and original creations. “Chouhouri Moutabadila” means “mutual feelings” in arab language…

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