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Fatima Zahra

SIXTY YEARS OF GUESSING

Women traditionally do not lead gnawa ceremonies, and she leads anyway

style

  • gnawa fusion
  • moroccan trance
  • guembri bass
  • qraqeb castanets
  • female alto
  • incantatory and powerful
  • hypnotic repetition
  • spiritual
  • arabic accent
  • hypnotic

the numbers

bpm
108
key
F major
energy
0.71
dance
0.92
valence
0.49
vocal at
6.5s
length
3:00
language
Ar

lyrics

(sixty years)

She was never allowed inside the room where it was done
She learned it through a wall and from her mother's humming
And she taught me in a kitchen with her hands on a table
And bar sixteen was wrong because she had to guess

Sixty years of guessing (guessing)
Through a wall, guessing
And she was close, guessing
Guessing

Sixty years, sixty years, sixty years, sixty years
An old man corrected one bar and gave me back a lineage
Sixty years, sixty years, sixty years, sixty years
She was almost right and nobody ever told her so

I played it correctly for her grave in November. The right bar.
Which is a stupid thing to do and I did it anyway.
And then I played it her way, wrong, and that one was better.
(GUEMBRI AND QRAQEB RETURN, HYPNOTIC BUILD)

Sixty years, sixty years, sixty years, sixty years
An old man corrected one bar and gave me back a lineage
Sixty years, sixty years, sixty years, sixty years
She was almost right and nobody ever told her so

(her way...)
SIXTY YEARS OF GUESSING — Fatima Zahra · FERAL