Maleem Abdelah Ghania | id

"To call this outing "authentic" would be an understatement, given that Bill Laswell and Pharoah Sanders took only some digital recording equipment and Sanders' saxophone to Morocco to record it...the recording took place in someone's home with a large cast of musicians, many of whom are Ghania's family members. The recording did not suffer at all from the mobile equipment, and The Trance of Seven Colors lives up to its title, giving the listener first-hand access to Gnawa healing ceremonial music. Ghania's Guimbri (an African instrument) unravels masterful, off-kilter, bass-like lines over chanting and various percussion instruments. Pharoah Sanders sounds...

Hidden in the deepest pagan forest, the roots of the folklore and the power of metal begin to merge to give birth Paghania, a folk metal band from Chile. The mixture of folklore instruments like charango, quena, flute, violin and the heavy sounds of the guitars, bass and drums in addition to the lyrics that tell histories only forest knows of, make a perfect union. Paghania was formed in the beginning of 2006, after the split up of two metal bands (Septima Tierra and Raven Heart), a heavy metal project was born, but only lasted a month. Soon after, they...