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December 31st, 2011
As Meloud approaches this year at the beginning of February, enjoy this footage from the private collection of the Hamatcha Muqaddim Mohammed filmed outside of Meknes (en route to Sidi Ali and eventually Moulday Idriss Zerhoun) in 2004
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December 9th, 2011
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December 9th, 2011
Recorded at the Mausoleum of Cheikh-el-Kamel on December 5, 2011 in Meknes
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November 13th, 2011
a Hamatcha Lila in my home on October 31, 2011
Tangiers
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November 6th, 2011
a gathering at my home in the Socco Chico with members of the Hamatcha Sufi brotherhood blowing their ghaitas until dawn
on October 31, 2011, Tangiers
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October 11th, 2011
the Aissoua Lila on Thursday night
in the home of the Muqaddim in the medina
recorded in Tangiers, Morocco
2011
An excerpt from Paul Bowles' notes on a similar experience in 1959:
“When music lacks development of any kind it is...
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September 22nd, 2011
Captivating sounds of the rhaitas and bendirs of the Hamatcha played all night long under little tents as women and men physically dissolved into this music - -
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September 22nd, 2011
At the Moussem of Sidi M'hajj, September, 2011 in Morocco
Hamatcha music and women in gheibooba
parts of the footage are cut for some of these images are not to be publicly released/understood out of context. please don't hesitate to write if you...
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September 20th, 2011
the beginnings of a moussem that lasted throughout the night at Sidi M'hajj, near Souk el Arbaa in Morocco
September 17, 2011
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September 4th, 2011
The initiation of the Gnaoua Lila at my neighbors' in the Petit Socco (Souk Al-Dhakl) of Tangiers
July, 2011
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September 4th, 2011
The sounds of the Aissoua brotherhood's Lila (night) tucked away in the home of the Muqaddim
{visuals not of Lila}
in Tangiers, July 2011
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August 1st, 2011
It turns out that I am next-door neighbors with the house of the Gnawa. Here, the more performative element (and only part possible to photograph) as the Gnawas inaugurate the Lila (a collective trance that lasts far beyond sunrise).
shot in...
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July 29th, 2011
Amazigh [Berber in the Tamazight tongue] means free man or noble man, as opposed to Berber which traces to Latin barbaria//land of the barbarians
at the Tifawine festival for Amazigh Sounds in Tafraoute in the Moroccan Anti-Atlas, July 2011
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July 29th, 2011
Gnawa music performed on stage at the Tifawine festival that celebrates Amazigh musical traditions, held in the desert in Tafraoute, Morocco in July 2011
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July 20th, 2011
took a trip out to see Dia in her hometown of Ramallah in the West Bank - the landscapes and vegetation are quite reminiscent of the Rif in Morocco
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July 7th, 2011
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June 30th, 2011