Hassan Hakmoun

Primal Moroccan trance traditions collide with psychedelic New York rock and London dance grooves. What results is part of the on-going story of Gnawa music, which spread from West Africa, the Sudan, and the Southern Sahara through centuries of migration until it reached Morocco.

This album is the second of two volumes of music culled from the legendary Real World Recording Weeks of 1991 and 1992. It features fascinating musical encounters between established and lesser-known artists from across the world.

Long Way Down was conceived as an adventure and as an eye-opening experience on an amazing continent: Africa. Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman hit the road on an epic motorcycle adventure which Real World proudly soundtracks with the careful selection of music from our far-reaching catalogue.