Berber Trance Music Collections

Listen and watch a huge collection of trance inducing Berber music and songs

Berber Trance Music Collections

Listen and watch a huge collection of trance inducing Berber music and songs with this App

Algerian Berber people representing one of the oldest Northwestern African civilizations, hold poetry and music in high esteem

The music is intended to cause a form of trance through repetitions of melodies that weave in and out of one another. The central focus of these songs is attention to variations of rhythms in percussion and the interlacing flutes

Gnawa have venerable stringed-instrument traditions involving both bowed lutes like the gogo and plucked lutes like the gimbri, a three-stringed bass instrument

The Gnawa also use large drums called tbel in their ritual music. The Gnawa hajhuj has strong historical and musical links to West African lutes like the Hausa halam, a direct ancestor of the banjo

Morocco has a rich musical culture with flavors of Berber, Spanish, Arabic, and Saharan influences. Berbers, indigenous North Africans, have a proud heritage of folk music predating Arabic times, with a sound distinct from Chaabi – a popularized folk genre. Gnawa music originates from sub-saharan Africa and involves a minimal combination of hejhouj (a three-string camel skin bass instrument), percussion, and religious or mystical chanting. Here are 10 Moroccan musicians utilizing these traditions

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