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Colours of the Night (Maalem Mahmoud Gania album)

Colours of the Night is an album by Moroccan Gnawa musician Maalem Mahmoud Gania. It was recorded in 2013 at Studio Plein Les Oreilles in Casablanca, Morocco, and was initially released on CD for distribution within Morocco before being issued as a double LP in 2017 by Hive Mind Records as the label's first release. The album was Gania's final studio recording before his death in 2015.

Reception
In a review for The Attic, Dragoș Rusu wrote: "This is deeply hypnotic trance music... this is considered healing music, evoking ancestral saints who can drive out evil, cure psychological harms or cure scorpion bites... [it] transports the listener into a magical land, a beautifully crafted landscape." The Hum's Bradford Bailey remarked: "Absolutely stunning and engrossing on every count, it's Gnawa music at its absolute best. The fact that it represents the last time this master's voice will appear, is heart-wrenching and made that much more tragic by its towering heights. It is a perfect capsule of nearly everything I love about music. If its hypnotic rhythms, call and response vocals, and rippling tones don't make your body heave and sway, you're probably dead." ==Track listing==
Track listing
Side A • "Sadati Houma El Bouhala" – 8:59 • "Shaba Kouria" – 8:51 Side B • "Bala Matinba" – 11:00 • "Amara Mousseye" – 8:16 Side C • "Foulani" – 9:42 • "Sidi Sma Ya Boulandi" – 8:06 Side D • "Ba Yourki" – 8:04 • "Mrahba Baba Hamouda" – 7:48 == Personnel ==
Personnel
• Maalem Mahmoud Ganiaguembri, lead vocals with • Karima El Filali • Asmae Hazmaoui • Chaimae Lofti • Hazma Gania • Houssam Gania • Ahmed Elbnoua • Mehdi Mnouer • Abdellah Malibo • Soufiane Aghmam ==References==
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