Gasba music

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Gasba or tamja is a musical style based on a wind instrument of the same name (gasba literally means "reed" in the Berber language), which is widespread in Tunisia, Algeria (among Chawis of north-east Algeria and Oran in the northwest), and in Morocco, (in the eastern Rif (Al Hoceima, Driouch, Nador, Berkane) Oujda, Beni Mathar and Bouarfa and by Jilala brotherhood).

Gasba musicians

External links[edit]

  • Abdelkader Ben Mouiha, Jilala of Fes. Some recordings of the ancient repertoire of Jilala brotherhood, 1994: [1] [2] [3]
  • Virtual museum

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