MOROCCO SPAIN
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
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A country that borders the north by the Mediterranean Sea to the east and southeast by Algeria, on the south Saharawi Republic and west to the Ocean Atlantic.
Morocco has a population of more than 30 million people composed of Berbers, but also by Arabs and Jews. Its capital is Rabat and speak Berber, Arabic and French.
Moroccan music live in the sacred sounds and rituals of the descendents African slaves, with Arab and Andalusian songs. There are a lot of music of a religious or ritual, we expand the Western world achieved and genres like Gnaoua or to a lesser extent Chaabi music called Rai are influenced pop and other genres in the West.
GNAWA
The Gnaoua is defined by the history between Black Africa and the Maghreb. Moroccan populations created this style based on the Arab sacred songs and incorporating African rhythms, especially from Land of the present Senegal, Mali and Guinea. The Gnaoua used mostly called tbal percussion, bass sound of the stringed instrument Guimbri or feel, of 3 acres which gives a steady pace and an instrument called Querqbat or Carcaba which are a kind of metal castanets. In turn, World Music Festival Gnaoua has become one of the cultural and ethnic events in the world.
In this global festival, artists from around the world gather each year in June to remember a musical tradition goes back centuries in the history of Mogador Essaouira, a city emblematic of this style. This festival masters of Gnaoua share their musical experiences with musicians from jazz, rock and pop.
Among the most prominent groups include major artists Gnaoua the Maghreb, not only in Morocco but also in Tunisia and Algeria.
worth mentioning that the Gnawa masters are healers, use their songs about liturgical rites following highly structured codes based on ecstatic dance. Gnawa practice may relate to practice shamanic, using music and dance for ritual purposes. The masters of this style leads whole nights to the beat of the music. These evenings are called "Lilas" where participants engage in cathartic trance.
Certain Gnawa masters, Maalem Mahjoub is very famous in Europe for their live performances on stage showing the ceremony. And it has recorded an album quite faithfully reproducing the climate of one of these evenings called "Lilas". The pieces on this album are very long, lasting between 7 8 and 15 minutes, because they are ritual.
This is Moroccan Gnawa was played in the 2003 edition of the festival to which we referred, is titled "Dawi.
Chaabi
C haabi means popular. Is the one heard on the radio, the most widely recorded in the cassette that proliferate in desquerías. The music is Chaabi cheerful and easy, very akin to the traditional Berber , there are plenty of singers and instrumentalists, highlighting successful Nayat Aatabou, a woman with personal style and lyrics of social and feminist content. Other outstanding artists are Khaled Benani, Faissal or
The Chaabi is a living heritage árabeandalusí music that emerged in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. incorporates rhythms and melodies giving it a different merging many times with electronic music.
At weddings, festivals, markets and cafes, is one of the styles heard in Moroccan territory, especially in the north. Different groups are well known in Morocco as Nass el-Ghiwan, which Martin Scorsese group named as the Rolling Stones of Africa.
Electronic Music
Moroccan music not only manifestations has traditional, religious. The music could add their mark in different sounds and rhythms typical Moroccan. Draws attention to a project developed in Italy by the Moroccan Nour Eddine. The album is called Coexist, alluding to the brotherhood of peoples beyond their religious beliefs.
The album title and cover photo (traditional instruments resting next to a computer monitor) and give an idea of \u200b\u200bthe purpose of Nour-Eddine to compose, perform and record this album. A feeling that is confirmed when I opened the box we came across the word "Coexist", where they mix icons Christians, Jews and Muslims, and a manifesto declaring that the word is a philosophy of life of the global citizen, living in harmony, respecting nature and the rest of the world's inhabitants, without distinction of creed. A conception that is reflected in each of the sounds on the album.
Musically this work is solid and powerful. Mixing traditional instruments of the Maghreb region (dud, ney, Leira, among others) with electronic program designed by Oussama Elkarrichi own voice and Nour-Eddine, and some guests special. Eight songs, including traditional creations and arranged by the Moroccan plus instrumental version of title track to disk. The title of this song gives the album name and the project of coexistence among peoples of the East.
The Rai
Morocco shares with other Maghreb countries the presence of Rai, Algerian-born rhythm more precisely in the city of Oran.
early twentieth century its origins lie in ancient religious traditions and folk music Muslim Bedouin. Rai word means, "view", "opinion" or "counsel." This is a style that has become very popular because it is very danceable and has simple lyrics but features and committed.
The Rai has been a highly controversial style in his native Algeria, in fact, the radio broadcast was banned until 1985, despite government attempts to turn it off 2, and has spread throughout the world.
The fact that these letters are in a language unknown to us and that the message of Rai, does not prevent part of the message can be sensed enjoying the music and understanding it beyond words.
The Berber origins Rai has an influence of Western music. His subjects reflect the problems of North African society in general and especially of youth (love, social marginalization, migration, alcohol, drugs). The best-known Algerian singer Cheb Khaled is, but the rai offers many other names like, Cheb Hasni, Nasro, Cheb Mami, Cheb Samir Cheb Aïssa, Chaba Zahouania, Faudel.
Let's hear a Belgian singer but of North African origin, specifically Egyptian and Moroccan. Natacha Atlas released their first album in 95 and coincidentally titled "Diaspora2 last year released her sixth album Mish Maoulida. Kidda theme can be translated as "So" and is a love song originally included on the disc, 1997 Halim, second album of this singer who grew up in the Moroccan quarter of Brussels, Belgium and sings in English, French and Arabic.
Abdelaziz Abdellah Daoudi Status and
Abdelaziz Status Chaabi is a singer of this style that permeated certain Balkan influences. Born in 1961 in El Jadid. His uncle was a violinist and singer and in turn was the first teacher who fell in love Abdelaziz violin as an instrument and with only 12 years to be sent to Casablanca with the objective of working to buy his first instrument. In the 80 he made his debut album. After editing the first cassette is positioned well in the North African market within the Chaabi music, style in which he specialized since its inception.
Furthermore Abdellah Daoudi singer, whose real name is Elmakhlouk Abdellah born in Casablanca in 1972. Daoudi the nickname is a tribute to its origins, because it comes from the Tribe
Daoudi and Status are those who close the crossing lands today by Moroccan and show us in his singing and flamenco inflections because the Arab influences are and African. And why the Andalusian culture very close to the Maghreb with this subject entitled "Aatini the visa"
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