Asilah, 3/4 May

I need some time to develop this strand of my research during this trip but there was a public performance event in Asilah's garden park. West African drumming, Spanish samba bands, the ever present Gnaoua ensemble and an ensemble playing Isawiyya music from the Meknes region between Rabat and Fes. There's an element of ecstatic mystical trance in this music with rituals, ceremonies and recitations. Right up my street at the moment. Here's a taster.

And by the way I've been performing with various people, largely Europeans, in different combinations, some of it good, some of it a bit random as you'd expect having been thrown together in a foreign land.