Exploring Flamenco’s Arab Roots

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Hello,


Look in the following video of a white arab algerian music:

I invite you to listen to this beautiful white arab algerian music,
and in the video they are playing it in Montreal where
i am living since year 1989:

Labess - Mon beau Sapin (version chaabi)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsWQIpSua-8

And notice in the video that the white arab algerian musicians are also playing a part of the music in a style of Flamenco music, read why:

"As flamenco artists and critics began to explore the elements of gitano performance, they rediscovered the rich Arab influence in flamenco. The artform’s basic building blocs – sung poetry and music – were borrowed from the Arabs and Berbers who ruled al-Andalus"

Read more here:

Exploring Flamenco’s Arab Roots

https://worldmusiccentral.org/2003/11/06/exploring-flamenco%E2%80%99s-arab-roots/

And look at the following song of Strunz & Farah - Rayo, it has also roots in Flamenco , so it has Arab roots, listen to it here to notice it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_veha2tq_I



Thank you,
Amine Moulay Ramdane.