Algeria: Music of Gourara - Hadra Song: Al Hamdou Lillah (Praised be the Lord) | Текст песни

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• Hadra Song: Al Hamdou Lillah (Praised be the Lord)

Unlike the ahellil and the tagerrabt, the hadra, a dance of mystical character (hadra means "presence" and more particularly here "presence of God"), is performed in all the countries of the Maghrib. It is associated with the establishment of religious brotherhoods inspired by the Marabout movement.

The prestige of some Marabouts was so great that, long after their death, the brotherhoods that worshipped their memory recruited more and more members in an increasingly wide area. At Timimoun the people venerate Moulay Tayeb, who died in Morocco at the end of the 16th century. In Gourara the hadra is to some extent a specific contribution made by the members of the Moulay Tayeb Brotherhood to the chief religious festivals.

As in the case of the ahellil, the singers form a circle, but here they also hold one another by the hand and keep up a swaying movement from back to front. This action is heightened when the singers intermittently strike the ground with their heels, which happens usually at the end of a song. Inside the circle evolutions are performed by a solo singer and by a group of musicians playing single-headed drums of two different kinds, the taydimt (frame drum) and the quallal.

The songs are of two sorts, each having a different tempo, and they are performed in alternation. In the example heard here the tempo is lively and accelerates gradually right up to the extended double-choir climax.

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