MOROCCAN
MUSIC & STORYTELLING
with Yassir Chadly
As
a child in Morocco, Yassir Chadly learned to play a wide variety
of traditional instruments, including the oud (a sort
of lute), the gimbri (a stringed percussion instrument),
the dumbek and the bendeer (drums). He will
offer a program of traditional Moroccan music, along with
a number of stories from the mystical Sufi tradition, which
he learned as a boy from storytellers in the marketplaces
of Marrakesh and Casablanca.
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The noisy
rattling of the karkaba (above) help energize people
and encourage them to dance.
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Program
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Yassir
Chadly plays the oud, whose name means "wood" in Arabic.
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This
hand drum is called a bendeer. A strip of wood is soaked
in water, then bent into a circle to form the frame. This frame
is then covered in goatskin and painted with the "Hand of Fatima"
(hand with an inset eye). This motif is intended to ward of
the envious stare of the evil eye.
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This
gimbri (above and below) is partly made from recycled
materials: the neck is a broomstick, and the metal top is an
old bicycle fender. The small rings attached to the fender give
the instrument a rattling/buzzing sound, which is a desirable
part of the Moroccan musical aesthetic. The gimbri's body is
fashioned from a tree trunk, covered with camel hide, and fitted
with three goat-gut strings.
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