http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co-itvSCNiI
I discover things backwards a lot, it turns out. I fell in love with the Cowboy Bebop OST before I ever actually saw the show. Much of the soundtrack is jazz and bebop, but it does range as far as funk, blues, opera, singer-songwriter ballads, classical, etc. For me, it was wonderful starter kit into the world of everything-but-modern-pop.
Musawe is an original piece, but done in the style of gnawa; set to images of space travel, off-planet bazaars, and syndicate violence, it is surreal and transcendental. It's gorgeous and subtle and entirely out of place, which puts it exactly in place. Gnawa (a distinctly modern Morrocan musical genre) is a form of liturgy: "recreat[ing] the first sacrifice and the genesis of the universe by the evocation of the seven main manifestations of the divine demiurgic activity".
Reappropriated and used as the backing music to an anime about space bounty hunters, is this disrespectful? Does anyone care?
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