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The band Aïssâwaniyya, lead by Mehdi Nabti, joins together soufis musicians of the Aïssâwa brotherhood from Morocco and french Jazzmen. At the same time saxophonist and sociologist Ph.D, Mehdi Nabti made contact the year 2001 with soufis musicians masters from the Aïssâwa brotherhood with he deepens his musicals knowledges. Since this time, the young french man from kabyle ancestry have studied, dissected and transcribe rythms, melodies, songs and mystics psalms, explained them to his jazzmen friends in France, recorded with them, came back in Morocco for making the requisites adjustements, and finally created this very particular orchestra with the leader of the Aïssâwa brotherhood in Fès, Haj Azedine Bettahi. With the help of Haj Bettahi, Nabti learned a lot about the mysticism symbolism and all the technicals and corporals techniques current in the trance rituals in Maghreb. Contrary to the casuals and commercials adventures, this band benched slowy, in an intimacy collaboration. Here, the soufi music of Maghreb meets a new generation of musicians accustomed with contemporary jazz. Rendez-vous with the fervour and the beyond [Yves Bernard, Le Devoir, Montreal].