@ancestraltones: Gnawa music legend Maleem Hamid El Kasri performing ‘Moulay Ahmed’ Hamid el Kasri was born in 1961 in Ksar el Kebir, a city in Morocco halfway between Tangier and Rabat, in an ancient family of Gnawa music players. His grandmother, in particular, was a habit of layali, gnawa-based spiritual evenings, and this brought little Hamid closer to this art from an early age. His father, however, strongly opposed his love, enough to send him to live with his uncle in Rabat. The call of the krakebs, however, became stronger and stronger in the young man’s head, so much so that one day, sent to the souk to buy fabrics, he was enchanted an entire afternoon listening to this music. #worldmusic #folkmusic #musictraditional #traditionalmusic #ethnicinstruments #ethnomusicology #gnawa #gnawamusic #moroccanmusic #sufi #sufimusic #music