Music from Morocco

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Chalf Hassan
Artam el-Arab

Album : Artam el-Arab
Artist : Chalf Hassan
Release date : 1997
Number of discs : 1
Total size : 53,8 MB
Total time : 00:50:03

Tracks :
01. Rakssat el-Atlas [00:06:12]
02. Domouh el-Farah [00:04:02]
03. Genawa [00:05:08]
04. Rakssat Warzazat [00:05:02]
05. Hawla el-Magreb [00:06:20]
06. Farhat El-Chaab [00:05:52]
07. Marhaba Fi el-Magreb [00:06:12]
08. LaHssab [00:04:44]
09. Artam e-Arab [00:06:31]

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The Rough Guide to the Music of Morocco


Album : The Rough Guide to the Music of Morocco
Artist : Various Artists
Release date : 2004
Label : World Muic Network
Number of discs : 1
Total size : 97 MB
Total time : 01:11:07

Tracks:
1. Zeye Meyel - Nass Marrakech
2. Baba Aadi - Jil Jilala
3. Bay-Bay - Najm El Farah Essafi
4. Leilaa Lill - B'Net Marrakech
5. Touria - Mohamed Amenzou
6. Mahmouna - Nass El Ghiwane
7. Yedidim Hiou Zehirim - Emil Zrihan
8. Hijra - U-Cef/Dar Gnawa
9. Taala Fine Ghadi - Fatna Bent El Houcine/Ouled Ben Aguida
10. LaLa Aisha - Hassan Hakmoun
11. Khaliou Loudid Lamimtou - Mustapha Bourgogne

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The North African nation of Morocco possesses a diverse music scene, where traditional and popular styles collide and collude. Sacred and secular concerns are omnipresent. Gutty strings and nasal, resonant singers wend their way through sweet-sour scales, hypnotic rhythms, and knife-sharp harmonies. A tinny taxi radio blares a new chaabi (pop) hit, a street-side bard bawls out a broadside, an all-female chorus accompanied by an all-male back-up band wanders from party to party, and a local TV station airs a concert by a classical Arab-Andalouse orchestra--all this while the minaret of every mosque in town simultaneously intones the Muslim call to prayer. It must have been a challenge to gather so many complex and constantly evolving styles onto a single CD, but as usual, the Rough Guide comes through with flying colors. The music has a fervent heat and a graceful rawness but also reveals a core of hard-won serenity.
--Christina Roden

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Gnawa
Home Songs

Album: Gnawa ? Home Music
Date of release: 2006
Label: Accords Crois?s
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Gnawa
Time: 00:57:20
Total size: 134 MB

Tracks:
01. Merchane Family - Chalabati
02. Hamid Kasri - Aicha Hamdouchia
03. Collectif - Bouyandi
04. Zef Zaf - Foul gnawa
05. Hassan Boussou - Katib Allah
06. Abdelkader Merchane - Hamadi
07. Collectif - Bangoro
08. Abdelkebir Amlil - Instrumental
09. Hamid Kasri - Hamdouchia
10. Amida Boussou - Boulila
11. Zef Zaf - Tombouctou
12. Collectif - Sidi Koumy
13. Hassan Boussou - Soye

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Intimist blues-like songs from Black Africa by a special collective of great Moroccan gnawa voices.

Performers:
Hamid Kasri, Amida et Hassan Boussou, Abdelkebir Merchane, Zef Zaf, Abdelkader Amlil

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Sanae Marahati
Al-Barakiya ? La Musique de Melhoun

Album: Al-Barakiya ? La Musique de Melhoune Vol.3
Artist: Sanae Marahati
Label: Fassiphone
Genre: Melhoune
Time: 01:06:00
Total size: 98,3 MB

Tracks:
1.Lousaya
2.Ari Alique Ya Mohamed
3.Zawkna Vhamak
4.Damlij

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Malhun (or Milhûn, in Arabic الملحون) meaning the melodic poem is a Moroccan music that borrows its modes from the Andalusian music. It is a kind of urban, sung poetry that comes from the exclusively masculine working-class milieu of craftsmen's guilds.
Origins
The melhun, originally a pure literary creation, emerged as a poetic art today known in Morocco under the name of qassida (meaning poem) (in Arabic القصيدة) or zajal (in Arabic الزجل). Combined with music, it quickly spread across the country where it acquired fame particularly among artisans.
Music
The qassida (laqsida in Moroccan dialect) of the melhun is based on two essential elements: the overtures preceding it and the parts of which it is composed. aqsâm (in Arabic الاقسام) verses sung solo interrupted by the harba refrain (meaning launch) (in Arabic الحربة). Harba, the origin of which goes back to the 16th century, is a refrain taken up between the verses by the sheddâda (group of singers and instrumentalist-singers)(in Arabic الشداشة). Another refrain called dridka in Arabic الدريدكة) is a simplified form of the harba, taking off from an accelerated rhythm to announce the end of a qassida
The qassida however preserved the division of the text in stanzas as in the Andalusian song: the verse (ghson meaning branch) can include from eight to sixteen verses, a short refrain or harba offers an alternation which makes it possible to break the monotony of the musical discourse of the Melhoun song. This gave rise to the sûruf, subsidiary procedures employed by singers to produce an even greater effect on the audience and above all to correct the rythm. Al-Maghrawi (16th 17th centuries) created from dân, a word that has no meaning, verses which were used as the basis for versewriting by Moroccan folk poets.

This is my favorite Melhoun album. I adore Sanae Marahati's singing!
If anyone has more of her music, pls share it with us!

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Chalf Hassan
Belly Dance from Morocco

Album : Belly Dance from Morocco
Artist : Chalf Hassan
Release date : 1996
Number of discs : 1
Total size : 75,3 MB
Total time : 00:51 :07

Tracks :
01. Khamsa We Khamsine [00:04:52]
02. Taarida Hawzi [00:06:22]
03. Genawa [00:05:08]
04. Shelha [00:04:20]
05. Solo Darbuka [00:03:23]
06. El-Andaloussi [00:04:24]
07. Taarida Shaabi [00:06:20]
08. Zayani El Rifi [00:08:33]
09. Genawa Rhythm [00:03:26]
10. Oud Improvisation [00:04:19]

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Chalf Hassan is a young musician and singer from Morocco (Casablanca). He was born into a religious family, was steeped in Koranic culture but also became adept at a range of local percussion and stringed instruments. His music is based on traditional folk and classical songs given a distinctively personal treatment which he has developed since he first came to London in 1984. He played throughout Europe with Arab, Western and African Musicians for years before crossing cultural barriers to create his Arab-Spanish fusion.
With his lute, drums and an ever changing line-up of musicians Hassan started his carrier playing with groups and performed for theatre companies all over Morocco. He was also a member of professional orchestras and has formed a couple of groups that were named after him.
He is expert at playing many different and complex rhythms and music. For this he was invited by Hossam Ramzy to join Robert Plant and Jimmy Page (ex Led Zeppelin) on their historic reunion 1995/96 World tour.

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Karim Ziad & Ifrikia
Chabiba

Album: Chabiba
Artist: Karim Ziad & Ifrikia
Date of release: 2004
Label: Sauvage/Night and Day
Genre: World
Time: 00:45:35
Total size: 41,7 MB
Individual Track Details:
1. La ilaha illa allah
2. Chabiba
3. Merhba bik
4. Katibala
5. El mouima
6. Rijal Allah
7. Jamagaro
8. Yadouk
9. Ouine nsibek
10. Louanges
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Furieusement gnaoua, ce second album du batteur algérien est étroitement lié Ã* son expérience de directeur artistique du festival d’Essaouira. Au contact des confréries marocaines et des pointures du jazz qui s’y rencontrent, Karim Ziad a trouvé des ressources culturelles et des clés musicales lui ouvrant un monde où la complexité rythmique prend un sens cosmique.
Autour de lui, une équipe de fameux groovers, dont les deux ONB Aziz Sahmaoui et Alain Debiossat, stimulés par un prestigieux panel d’invités, comme Nguyen Lê, Boyan Z, et l’apparition sublime d’Oumou Sangare, marquant la filiation bambara – gnaoua. Du très bon !
~François Bensignor
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Chalf Hassan
Songs and Dances from Morocco

Album : Songs and Dances from Morocco
Artist : Chalf Hassan
Release date : 1997
Number of discs : 1
Total size : 51,2 MB
Total time : 00:42:02

Tracks :
01. Chabe El Baroud [00:10:56]
02. El-Maddahine [00:06:06]
03. Shamali [00:06:31]
04. El-Arroussa Choufo Mali [00:06:59]
05. Mohammed [00:05:33]
06. Zahri [00:05:57]

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Gnawa

Album: Gnawa Vol.3
Label: Fassiphone
Genre: Gnawa
Time: 00:46:57
Total size: 75,4 MB
Individual Track Details:
1.Vunkri Vunkri
2.Lala Mera
3.Al-afou Ya Maulana
4.Salli Ala Nbina
5.Lbaneh

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The oldest ancestors of Gnawa Spirituality are the Soudani, who have travelled the Sahara in camel caravans for thousands of years as traders. As a means of surviving the harsh desert conditions during their extensive journies, they developed a method of transcedence which includes dance, incense, food and music.
Gnawa are also the decendents of slaves trafficked from West Africa - specifically Guinea and Ghana (some people say the name "Gnawa" is a combination of these 2 countries names) to Muslim North Africa. These North African slaves found and fused the Soudani transcendentalism with Yoruba, Sufism, the Old Testament and Islamic spiritualities, resulting in a traditional healing spirituality, GNAUA or GNAWA, which is manifested through the healing Lila Ceremony.
The primary instrument of the Gnawa is the sintir (also called guimbre and hahjouj), a 3-stringed bass lute covered by a camel-skin head, which doubles as a drum. The Ma'alem, or master musician, will always play sintir and sing lead vocals. He is joined by several Qraqb (metal castanet) players who sing the chorus, and often put down their castanets to perform polyrhythmic handclaps, and dance. In a full Lila ceremony, a priestess will lead the dance. During the ceremony, people may go into trance and - as in Haitian Vodou - their bodies will be inhabited by the saint who is being called by the music. The Lila cycles through a series of colors - red, blue, light blue, yellow, white, black. Several saints are associated with each color. Incense is used throughout the ceremony, and in many cases an animal will be sacrificed before the ceremony begins.
Gnawi currently live and practice in Northern African countries, including Morocco, Tunis, and Algeria. There are different sects, each featuring their own Ma'alems and styles. Each June there is a very popular festval of Gnawa music in Essouiera, Morocco, which features Ma'alems from all over North Africa. The festival also features Gnawa fusion ensembles from other parts of the world.
For a more detailed exploration of the Gnawa, please visit Rodrigo Dorfman's site:
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Fes Festival of Sacred Music - Vol.1: Bismillah

Album : Fes Festival of Sacred Music Vol.1 : B'ismillah
Artist : Various Artists
Release date : 1997
Label : Sounds True
Catalog # : STA A339
Number of discs : 2
Total size : 128 + 126 MB
Total time : 01:09:54 + 01:09:09
Individual track details :
CD1
1. Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra Of Bosnia-Herzegovina - Call To Prayer
2. Hamza Shakour And The Al Kindi Ensemble - Syria - Sufi Music Of Damascus
3. Al Imam Al Busiri Association - Morocco - Traditional Sufi chant
4. Tagmout Of Zagora - Morocco - Traditional music of the Sahara
5. Sheikh Ahmed Barrayn - Egypt - Madih
6. Mehr Ali and Sher Ali - Pakistan - Sufi qawwali chant
CD2
1. Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra Of Bosnia-Herzegovina - Amila baksic soprano with violin
2. Said Chraibi - Morocco - Andalusian oud music
3. Said Chraibi - Morocco - oud and percussion
4. Diego De Los Santos - Spain - "Marinette" acappella saeta
5. Ahaidous - Morocco - Berber Music From The Northern Atlas Mountains
6. Ustad Gulam Hassan Shagan - Pakistan - Classical bhara khayal chant
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Each year in Fes, Morocco, some of the world's most extraodinary music rises above the city's ancient medina. This is the site of the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music: a one of-a-kind celebration of the divine in music, song, and dance. Nowhere else is the confluence of music and the sacred more joyfully and reverently celebrated than in these highlights from the second Fes Festival. B'ismillah (in the name of God) is alive with passion, inspiration, and musical realization that transcend national and religious boundaries. In these devotional songs we discover what the sufis have always known: that music in nothing less than an echo of God.

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