The Berber music is a traditional Musique of North Africa presenting large variety of styles according to the areas and widespread particularly by the music Morocco groin, the popular music kabyle of Algérie and the music Touareg of the Niger, the Mali and the Burkina Faso. The instruments used are the Bendir (large rustic tambourine) and the Gambri or the Flûte, which accompany the Chant S and the Danse S by rythmant a Poésie Berber rich person and coloured.

The Berber music, considered as a form of expression of the heart amazighe, is transmitted from generation to generation since mists of time, but she makes true great strides in the Années 1930.

The dances are practiced during the festivities, the falling evening, around a large wood fire. The members of the musical groups - men and women - are always vêtus their traditional clothes. The rate/rhythm is the fundamental dimension of this music, and the dance always accompanies the Berber songs.

To the three great linguistic zones three styles of dances and songs correspond.

• In the basin of the Under: the Ahouach is a dance of men and women of the countries Chleuhs. It is about a night ceremony in which the women form a round around a fire of light branches. In the center, a dozen men form a more restricted circle, all provided with bendirs. The musical topic progresses by sudden starts, then intervene the bendirs on accompanying the round undulating by the women. The dance arrives then at its paroxysm when this round is divided into two groups which face and give itself the counterpart.

• In the Average Atlas: the Ahidous is a dance of the Moyen Atlas in which, this time, men and women are neck and neck. It is attacked on a rate/rhythm undulating , at the same time flexible and rigorous. After this introduction, a couple of dancers is detached, then sudden change with grace.

• In the south of Morocco: the Guedra is a dance originating in the the Sahara. Its musical framework is composed of an small group of men of which one two carries out a regular rate/rhythm while striking a pottery. The dance is carried out by a woman who is held in the middle of the group of singers. With knees, wrapped in a blue fabric, it carries out with its head and its hands the rhythmic one endiablée of will guedra.

Mixing modern and traditional instruments, several musical formations interpret songs, inspired of the ancestral tradition, but being addressed to the sensitivity of the generation resulting from the first wave from the rural emigrants.

Some musicians and formations

• Has

• Albensir
• Ammouri Mbark
• Archach
• Aza
• Lhadj Belaïd
• Ali Chouhad/Izmaz
• Hassane Idbassaid
• Izenzarn
• Mejjaoui Abdessalam
• Raïs Mohand
• Saïd Achtouk
• Usman
• Yuba
• Massinissa
• Agizul
• Hmad Amentag

Internal bond

• Moroccan Musique (It is very diversified and is composed of four large musical genres of a large variety which should not be confused: music Gnawa, of the Spoke, the Chaâbi, the Andalusian , the Berber music)

• Algerian Music
• Music kabyle
• arabo-Andalusian Music

External bond

• Azawan

• Imurig.net - Gate of the music and culture amazighs Chleuhs
• Musiquekabyle.com - memory of the Music Kabyle
• Imurig.net - specialized on the music chleuhe
• Musikamazigh.com
• Marocradio.nl, webradio
• Moroccan Amazigh Gate