Guinia, Maalem Houssam
Dead Of Night
Recorded in a single late night session in a house in Casablanca, using a Tascam field recorder and 2 microphones, 'Dead Of Night' is an incredible solo album from Maalem Houssam Guinia, the son of Maalem Mahmoud Guinia, and one of Morocco's most exciting young Gnawa masters. It captures Houssam at his most natural, singing and playing the Gnawa songs that have been with him since his birth, completely solo and free without percussion or backing vocals. Houssam described the album as containing the songs he knows best as these were the pieces his father would play and sing late into the night in their home when he was an infant. The whole performance has been beautifully and sympathetically captured by bassist and producer Karl-Erik Enkelman.