Majid Bekkas

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2025-06-27 — "Gnawa World Blues": Berlin's live album of Philharmonic. The ACT label released on June 27, 2025 Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic XVII: Gnawa World Blues, recording of the concert given on November 10, 2024 at the Berlin Philharmonic. Majid Bekkas formed a trio of very high flying with guitarist Nguyên Lê and drummer Hamid Drake, between trance gnaoua, blues of the desert and jazz of the world.

2025-06-20 — The Jour Project at the Gnaoua Festival in Essaouira. On June 20, 2025, Majid Bekkas presented his Joudour Project on the stage of the Gnaoua Festival and Musiques du Monde d'Essaouira. A return to the roots welcomed by the festival's audience, at the heart of an edition celebrating the great fusions of the Gnaouies.

2024 — "Alouane" with the London group Waaju. In 2024 Majid Bekkas published Alouane with Waaju, a London-based African-Latin groove band, on the BBE Music label. The album combines the guembri and the Bekkas song with the band's dancing rhythms, a new proof of its ability to pass through cultures.