Coming from Outat El Haj, Afrah's musicians have learned music during their adolescence, from Mohamed El Hayani , a village elder, known for his knowledge. Relationships between musicians and the teacher are quite atypical compared to the Moroccan traditions on those subjects, which is usually structured around a relation between a master and students. Indeed, members of the band show Mohamed El Hayani as their « artistic advisor », and they nourish with him very egalitarian relations, although marked with a deep respect.
Afrah's songs, poems and music, come from the popular heritage. These are mainly love or seduction songs, sometimes audacious ones, but they can also talk about the life conditions of the peasant and of the popular classes. Songs can also touch to political themes, or topics inspired by actualities, like emigration, poverty, solidarity... In the Mawwal (improvised songs, accompagnied by Gasba alone), for example, singer often refers to local or international actualities, or even to the context of the concert.
Afrah's music is very representative from peasant music in the Arabic Maghreb ; it's possible to recognize some of their rythmes and their melodies in the rural areas of Algeria and Tunisia. The dance takes an important place, due to the dancers who command to the percussionists the rythmic variations, contributing thereby to the music's quality by their dance's quality.
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