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#ThrowbackThursday to our threeway collaboration between Floating Points / Eglo Records, James Holden / Border Community and the late great Maallem Mahmoud Guinia, master practitioner of Morocco's Gnawa tradition. 

Eglo's 2015 vinyl artefact documenting the Maalem's brief encounter with British electronic music (which led to Floating Point's upbeat Mimoun Marhaba and Holden's trippy Bania) flew out of the door not long after it landed, but we continue to make the digital files available for future generations - including a pair of bonus Holden x Guinia collabs which didn't fit on the original vinyl release. 

All royalties go to the Guinia family in Essaouira via the Maalem's sons Hamza and Maalem Houssam Gania, who continue to carry on the Gnawa tradition in their father's footsteps.

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