Trances 1981 The groups Trances are our equivalent of soul music, our irrationality I followed the example of the Nass El Ghiwane themselves I went back to the roots They draw their music from the last thousand years of Moroccan and African history the film sets out to reveal and emphasize this heritage I chose the music of the Saharan brotherhood, The Gnawas, and the verses of the famous poet El Mejdoub, to underline the trances