Gnawa
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The Gnawa are an ethnic minority inhabiting southern Morocco, who had been brought to Morocco as slaves from West Africa’s Sahel.
A Gnawi
Gnaouas from Oran with their guembri.
Gnaoua in a North African Interior
Gnawa from Algiers with his guembri (circa 1906) by Jean Geiser (1848-1923).
Sintir
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The sintir, also known as the guembri, gimbri, hejhouj in Hausa language, is a three stringed skin-covered bass plucked lute used by the Gnawa people of North Africa, mainly in Morocco, Algeria, Tunis
Gnawa
…imagery, perfumes and fright. Gnawas play deeply hypnotic trance music marked by low-toned, rhythmic melodies played on a skin-covered lute called a sintir, guembri or hajhouj. The method, similar to garaya in Hausa traditional music, involves call-and-response singing, hand-clapping, and cymbals called…
Sintir player in Rabat, Morocco
The Moroccan loutar uses a soundboard made of goatskin
A sintir, or guimbri, being played by Nuru Kane
Tunisian guembri (الكمبري)