Friday, June 23 2006
1 year, 11 months, 1 day
Essaouira, Morocco
About.
Manfred is creator of ThisFabTrek.com, journey and photography, a travel blog (since 2004).
Understand and tolerate, report and photograph, enjoy and live - inhale different concepts of life (all that TV [and the web] cannot give). Reject jealousy, animosity, bigotry. Be free.
The mind, when pondering at night has always asked those questions. What are you doing in corporate wonderland, banking, university, office, church. Who is the other animal asleep inside, thinker, punk, creative, vagabond, anarchist, healer, artist, writer, photographer, intellectual? Oh god dare you to think. YU?
So when he sees the gamble, manipulations and lies he follows the old old dream, sets out for this journey that is called life, explore the world traveling overland.
Manfred is father of twin boys, Daniel and David.
ThisFabTrek is ongoing. Photography and Journey, Story of Life Around
the World, Music, Art, Festivals and Love and Peace. Photography and articles are for sale.
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Gnawa/Gnaoua music was brought to Morocco by the ancestors
of today's celebrated musicians, slaves, captured in Sub-Saharan Africa
over the centuries.
The word Gnawa most likely is being derived from the ancient
trading empire of Ghana which covered parts of Mauritania and Mali.
But slaves came frome all corners of Sub Saharan Afrika. Guinea, Gambia,
Tchad, Ghana etc.
Maâlem Abdellah El Gourd (Tanger).
and his Dar Gnawa troupe.
Maâlem Abdellah El Gourd.
Maâlem Abdellah El Gourd.
Maâlem Abdellah El Gourd.

Gaâda Diwane de Béchar (Algeria).
"Gaâda means get together, Diwane
is a style of music which roots from South Algeria" Gaada.net.
A bit like Gnawa but a different braket.
Gaâda Diwane de Béchar.
Group of great musicians.
... and voices ...
... sometimes mystic.

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