In BAC’s Wellness Studio Blog, we invite you to share the passion we have for healing arts, and show how you can use featured Brooklyn traditions from our global diasporas to nurture and heal your body, community, and soul.
Today’s featured artists: The Belyamani Brothers
We got the chance to sit down with Hatim Belyamani and his brother Amino Belyamani, separately, to talk with the creative geniuses of Gnawa, a Moroccan blues music that offers inclusive, healing for everyone, for every body.
We asked how the music that they played affected them and their audience. Hatim shared:
“For a long time, people asked me if I was spiritual or religious. And the first time that I realized that I had a very deep spiritual connection was when I realized that when I play music, I go to those spaces.”
It was Amino who put forth:
“This kind of music is so powerful, that it's automatic, automatically, it will draw them… It's just It goes straight into their unconscious and somehow grabs them, there's something so I don't think there's much for them to do. It's just the need to be there. You just need to be present when those things happen, and then you'll be affected.”
Cover Image: Hatim Belyamani. Photo by Andy Isaacson.