Maleem Mahmoud Ghania Pharoah Sanders ‎The Trance Of Seven Colors John Coltrane

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...Laswell and Sanders' collaborations were not always thus, however. They began with the outstanding, little known and 360° authentic The Trance Of Seven Colors. The album was originally released by Laswell in 1994 on CD and cassette on his own Axiom label. The CD has never been reissued, but a bootleg cassette was released by Loathed Sounds in 2017, when Laswell also self-released various digital formats.

The Trance Of Seven Colors was recorded live in the courtyard of a private house in the medina in Essaouira, Morocco. It features Sanders alongside the late guimbri player Maleem Mahmoud Ghania, a leading light of gnawa, a percussive, black African trance music originally heard only in southern Morocco. Laswell's production is formula-free and there appear to be no overdubs, no post-production sonic manipulations and only a little editing. It is a field recording, pure and simple and, apart from a couple of occasions when Sanders veers off-mic, it is well recorded.

Sanders is heard on six of the nine tracks with Ghania and his percussion and vocal ensemble, on one track with ghaita players Abdelmalak Ben Hamou and Maleem Abdelkabir Addabachi, and sits out the rest. Most of the tunes are traditional gnawa numbers; two, including the elegiac ballad "Peace In Essaouira," which is dedicated to Sonny Sharrock, who had passed a week earlier, are Sanders originals.

By 1994, Sanders was almost three decades into the lyrical, mellifluous style of astral jazz which he had introduced on Tauhid (Impulse, 1967), and which had replaced the ferocious, paint-stripping aesthetic with which he had launched his recording career on Pharoah (ESP, 1965) and had maintained during his time with John Coltrane during Coltrane's final years.

On The Trance Of Seven Colors, however, driven by gnawa's relentless rhythm and sandpaper sonics, and most particularly perhaps by the raw reediness of the ghaitas, Sanders frequently scrolls back to the ESP/Coltrane paradigm, which was packed with high harmonics, split tones and low register honks. It was to be a temporary rewind, as evidenced by 1999's gorgeously balladic Crescent With Love (Venus Records), and is all the more precious for it. There are two sides to Sanders and both are to be treasured.

Maleem Mahmoud Ghania with Pharoah Sanders ‎– The Trance Of Seven Colors

Label: Zehra ‎– ZEHRA001

Format:  2 × Vinyl, LP, Reissue

Country:  Germany

Released:  04 Oct 2019

Genre:  Jazz, Folk, World, & Country

Style:  Free Jazz, Fusion, Tribal, Free Improvisation, African

Tracklist

A1

La Allah Dayim Moulenah

Written-By – Maleem Mahmoud Ghania, Pharoah Sanders

11:10

A2

Bala Moussaka

3:54

B1

Hamdouchi

Arranged By – Maleem Abdelkabir Addabachi

Drum [Harraz] – Abdelmoula Hnikkich, Mustapha Bousan

Mizmar [Ghaita] – Abdelmalak Ben Hamou, Maleem Abdelkabir Addabachi

Tambourine [Tbel] – Abderrahman Nimini

9:07

B2

Peace In Essaouira (For Sonny Sharrock)

Written-By – Pharoah Sanders

7:23

C1

Boulandi Samawi

13:56

C2

Moussa Berkiyo / Koubaliy Beriah La'Foh

Guimbri – Maleem Boubker Ghania

4:34

D1

Salat Anbi

8:17

D2

Casa Casa Atougra

Tambourine [Tbel] – Maleem Mahmoud Ahkaraz

5:05

D3

Mahraba

7:48

Companies, etc.

• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Zehra
• Copyright (c) – Zehra
• Mixed At – Greenpoint Studios
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Credits

• Arranged By – Maleem Mahmoud Ghania
• Chorus [Female] – Fatima Labied, Fatna Ifis, Hafida Ghania, J'mia Ghania, Khadija Ghania, Malika Ghania, Mina Ahkaraz, Saida Battach
• Co-producer [Morocco], Coordinator [Organization In Morocco] – Eric Rosenzveig
• Coordinator [For Bill Laswell], Other [Business Admin. For Bill Laswell] – Tracy McKnight
• Engineer, Producer [Assistance] – Robert Musso
• Karkabas, Handclaps, Chorus – Abdellah Ahkaraz, Abdellatif Abdellaoui, El Moktar Ghania, Hassan Machoure, Maleem Abdellah Ghania*, Mohamed Abdellaoui, Mohamed Boujmia, Mohamed Outanine
• Lead Vocals, Guimbri, Tambourine [Tbel] – Maleem Mahmoud Ghania
• Leader [Female Vocal Chorus] – Zaida Ghania
• Liner Notes – Eric Rosenzveig, Peter Wetherbee
• Producer – Bill Laswell
• Producer [Assistance In N. Y. C. And Morocco], Coordinator [N. Y. C. And Morocco] – Nicky Skopelitis
• Producer [Assistance], Coordinator [Morocco] – El Haimer Boubker
• Remastered By, Lacquer Cut By – Rashad Becker
• Tambourine [Tbel] – Maleem Boubker Ghania
• Tenor Saxophone – Pharoah Sanders
• Written-By – Traditional (tracks: A2, B1, C1 to D3)

Notes

Recorded in the House of the Caid Khoubane in the Medina of Essaouira, District Chbanat, Morocco on June 1-3, 1994.

Gatefold sleeve with original liner notes + download code

180g vinyl.