Malhoune means the "song of the dialectal word".The musical sessions, which occur "as often as the day rises" in Marrakech and in Meknes, are the living patrimony of Moroccan popular poetry...
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In the Middle Atlas, near Kenifra, the tribes Zayane and Ichker get together for the performance of the mythical nuptials of Asli and Taslit, the Fiancé and the Fiancée. They are the symbols of Earth and ...
In the High Atlas, when one climbs up the sinewy trail leading to the Ayt Bou Gmez valley, all sign of modern life fades away, leaving man alone with the sky and earth and nothing between.
Water is the element around which the ...
A Feast, a Pilgrimage, a Souk, the Moussem is the most popular and the most regular Moroccan event. Each town, each region has its "own" moussem. The one of Moulay Abdallah is the most renowned for its Fant...
When they left Morocco, the Jews took off with them their religious singing, the hazanout. Gathered in the Buffault Synagogue in Paris, Rabbi Haïm Louk and his hazanim (cantors) Malkiel Benamara, Albert Bouadanah, ...
In the north of Morocco, the city of Tetouan is called "Daughter of Granada". Abdelsadek Chekara and his orchestra perform extracts of noubas, the classical repertory of a so nearby and tolerant Andalusia, wher...
The Achoura festival in Marrakech is the privileged moment for music.The whole medina vibrates to the sound of the frame drums of the Dekka, of the
women musicians of Aïta and of the Mwazniya, who play violin while dancing, as well as...
Performed by the cheikhat, the "troubadour women", the aïta is the cry which becomes a song, the song which becomes an invocation, invocation to the past, invocation to witness suffering, invocation to sur...
In Morocco, the art of beautifying lies essentially in the hands of a woman called in the North Ziyana, the "beautifyer", and everywhere else Neggafa. Designated before inside the family or the clan, she is now...
« As a child, I climbed upon a stool to reach the balcony so as not to lose any of the show displayed in my street in Casablanca.
On Saturday, our day of rest, the wandering musicians would come under our windows to collect a few c...
« Nuba of Gold and Light » tells the story of a music. The Arab Andalusian music, with Nuba as its symphony... As a musical tree, its branches are nourished by the sap flowing since fourteen centuries from Morocco’s most remote areas and currents coming from Arabia, ...
In June 1995, in the very nice Synagogue des Tournelles in Paris, an exceptional concert of hazanout (Jewish liturgical music) gathered the greatest hazanim (cantors) of Paris : Adolphe Attia, Philippe Darmon, Léo...
His most significant themes are the condition of women, the intrusion of the modern world in a traditional civilisation, the changes of History and the liberation of the people, the triumph of Islam, but also the nostalgia for a mythical Orient and Muslim Andalusia.The text, written and narrate...
Starting from the series MOROCCO BODY AND SOUL that is composed of 10 films of 26 minutes describes a musical journey going from the Berbers to Nass El Ghiwane, through The Gnawas, the Sufis, the Andalus, the Aïta of th...
"You will take, on the first day of Sukkot, the beautiful fruit of the beautiful tree..." (Leviticus XXIII, 40). This Commandment addressed to the Hebrews concerns, according to the Tradition, the fruit of the citr...
Built on a great olive grove in the South of Marrakech, Oulad Moumen is the village where was founded the Edery family, in the first years of the century. The migration, first through Moroccan then World journeys, transplant...
Jews and Arabs of Morocco preserved with fervour and passion the treasures of their common musical patrimony inherited from the blessed era of the tolerant and convivial Andalusia as it was before 1492. The Matruz, litterally ...
Black Africa flows in the veins of Morocco. Originally slaves who started to arrive in the 15th century with the gold of Western Sudan, the Gnaouas gathered into brotherhoods which continue to practice rituals of possession ...
Located between Volubilis and Meknes, the shrine of Moulay Idriss the First, founder of the Islamic Kingdom of Morocco, is the site of one of the most important religious pilgrimages.
The Sufi Brotherhood of the Alamiyines inaugurates the cer...
Since the seventies, Morocco, thanks to five musicians educated in the school of the street and decided to break with the invading "oriental languors", knew a musical explosion that would be for the young generatio...
« Since some years, from Zanzibar to Rotterdam, from Marrakech to Mexico City, through necessity or simple curiosity, I do not resist to the temptation of hanging around in the cybercafes located on my way.” “To me, a cybercafe is a travel inside a travel. It puts me right aw...