Tunis as the city that kept every one of its gates and tore down the wall between them, the Zitouna mosque's columns carried five miles inland from ruined Carthage, the mezoued bagpipe kept off state radio while the Andalusian repertoire played as the respectable one -- and, as the song has it, nobody here is from here.
The Sea Gate Has No Sea
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Style
Andalusian malouf easing from free-rhythm oud and riqq into a driving 142 BPM mezoued drop, with bagpipe drone, zokra oboe, darbouka and massed handclaps under alternating Tunisian Derja-accented male and female leads trading in call-and-response blocks.