Bab L' Bluz (MAR)
Yousra Mansour: Lead vocal, Electric Mandole, Electric Awisha, Electric Ribab, percussions | Brice Bottin: Electric guembri, Electric guitar, percussions, back vocal | Ibrahim Terkemani: drums, sampling pad, back vocal | Adrien Duterte: percussions, flûte, back vocal)
Bab L' Bluz is a French-Moroccan band founded in Marrakesh in 2018, following the meeting of Moroccan singer and guitarist Yousra Mansour and French guitarist and producer Brice Bottin. United by a deep passion for Gnawa music, they began learning the guembri—the traditional three-stringed bass lute—together, developing a distinctive musical language that blends the hypnotic loops of sacred Gnawa music, Saharan poetry, and the raw, unbridled energy of fuzz rock and blues.
Bab L' Bluz is part of Morocco’s Nayda movement, a new wave of artists drawing inspiration from their cultural heritage while expressing messages of freedom in Darija, the Moroccan Arabic dialect.
