Mazaher - live

Описание: Mazaher performs a traditional song recorded at Le Guess Who? festival in TivoliVredenburg/Utrecht in 2021
Full session: https://www.vpro.nl/vrije-geluiden/me...

Mazaher is an Egyptian ensemble featuring musicians and singers, mostly women, who play Zãr music: a combination of chanted songs and hypnotic polyrhythms used as purification and exorcism ritual to pacify and cleanse the human spirit. Though Zãr ceremonies have largely disappeared or been outlawed, Mazaher remain part of a movement preserving this vital cultural heritage.

This session was recorded at the Le Guess Who? festival in Utrecht in the serie Hidden Musics. International musical performances that are not usually experienced on stages or at festivals; these rich, often centuries-old musical traditions are typically ‘hidden’ in remote places throughout the world like Mazaher.

Crew:
Editors: Sakti Khedoe, Melchior Huurdeman, Aad van Nieuwkerk
Camera & lighting: Marijn Zurburg, Wim Adam, Ramon de Boer
Sound: Marc Broer, Philip ten Brink
Producer: Vivian Vrolijk
Director: Martijn van der Linden
Editing: Reinier Bruijne

This video was recorded in TivoliVredenburg in Utrecht 2021
for VPRO Vrije Geluiden: music program made by the Dutch public broadcast organization VPRO
full session:
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