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A Musical Tour to
Morocco
Morocco, as an ancient Mediterranean culture is known by its surviving
rituals and beliefs, poetically expressed in the daily life of its
people.
Music is a reflective mirror to the secular and spiritual life of
Moroccans,
it is expressed in every occasion to reflect the thoughts and feelings
universally known to be difficult to express otherwise. The celestial
essence
of this journey will take you to a world of marvels and reflection
emersed in diverse types of music from Moroccan pop music know as
Oughnia and Chaabi music, to Sufi spiritual music of different tariqas
expressed
in chants of Samaa Of the Tariqa Boutchichia or Tijani, or Shadhiliya
Tariqa, to trance druming as in Issawa, Hmadcha, Jilala,
Heddawa, Gnawa and many other sufi orders in Morocco. Rai music,
Reggada and
Jajouka Have attracted even big stars of Western Pop music such as
the Rolling Stones, Crosby Still Nash and Young, the Dooby Brothers,
Cat Stevens, Jimmy Hendrix, Peter Gabriel, Sting and many others who
have fused or barrowed some rhythms and melodies from traditional
Moroccan music. Come learn about the first strutured written
music known as the Andalusian music that gave birth in 13 and 14th
centuries to Classical Western music and to the popular Flamenco and
Fado in Spain and Portugal. The Malhoun is a rythmic prose in a
very popular style unique to Morocco and most authentic since the 12th
century, a style that does not exist anywhere else but Morocco.
Some of the Berber Tribal music is hard to trace as some ritual and
belifs in Morocco can go as far as the Neolithic time. Join us
for this very informative palette of Muisc that might enrich your
repertoire or simply add to your knowledge about world Music.
Learn about the history of some handmade musical instruments that exist
only in some western history books. You
are welcome to dance, share, participate and absorb a wide spectrum of
indigenous Moroccan music.
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