Music from North Africa

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Night Don!

Originally posted by medenaywe Compare instruments and ritam:Thanks Don! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXpqw6zisd0

There is much in common between certain musical styles in the Balkans and Egypt, I suppose this happened during the time when both the Balkans and Egypt were part of the Ottoman Empire. In Bulgaria the instrument "zurna" /that features both in the piece you posted and in the Egyptian one above it/ is not very widespread, at least I had never seen it used on a line show; but it's very much used in Albania and Bosnia, and sometimes in Serbia. I guess the Turks got it from Egypt and disseminated it all over the Balkans, in places where they migrated or converted large amount of the local population.



Zurna orchestra in what I suppose is Turkish Thracia; this maybe a Roma/Gypsy band

This is a zurna piece  found, it was played as a part of a wedding in Goce Delchev, Bulgarian Macedonia

Here, trumpet from Ancient Egypt, found in Tut's tomb:

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