Algeria: Music of Gourara - Song for the Insemination of the Date Palm | Текст песни

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• Algeria: Music of Gourara
• Song for the Insemination of the Date Palm

In February and March the gardeners artificially inseminate the female flowers of the date palm, an indispensable operation to ensure the full development of the fruit of each cluster. The men who do this accompany the action with a song that mingles with the lapping sound of the seguiet (irrigation channels) and the cooing of turtledoves.

The forms of this song vary sometimes greatly from one locality to another. But it always exhibits the characher of a propitiatory rite, an appeal to God and the Prophet to bless the palm.

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