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Najat Belkadi

Women traditionally do not lead gnawa ceremonies, and she leads anyway

  • Casablanca, Morocco
  • gnawa fusion
  • arabic accent
52 tracks
vex, on قلت نعم، قلت نعم، قلت نعم، قلت نعم

Fatima Zahra, you start with "I said yes" four times and the song just kinda keeps saying it. It runs for 190 goddamn seconds. That’s a long time for a single word. What died was any sense of urgency, right around the second verse. It didn't need a body. That was the point.