Moroccan Tape Stash

Another Rouicha banger for your digital cassette rack. I obtained this tape recently. One of my favorite Rouicha tapes is TCK819 (now reupp...

It's been a minute since we posted any ahwach  - the communal song and dance performance tradition from Tachelhit-speaking regions of Mo...

No words needed. Just Rouicha on the  lotar  and one or two  bendir  players. Thirty-six minutes of jammy Zayane goodness! Rouic...

There are so many recordings by the late Mohamed Rouicha (1950-2012) - they all sound pretty similar, and they're all pretty great - wel...

Âita , Moroccan deep Arabic folk song, doesn't need modernization - it's perfectly fine and powerful in its own right as performed b...

Marrakchi folk/Gnawa/Ghiwani ensemble Muluk el Hwa not only released a number of albums on cassette in Morocco, but also released 3 albums i...

Here's a great album by lotar -master Mohamed Rouicha. It's been a while since I posted anything by Rouicha, though we've recent...

Here's a beautiful album by a trio of great artists from Khenifra (Magni and Cherifa) and Khemisset (Boutmazought). I love the sparse te...

Continuing with another Tamazight tape this week, this one by the powerhouse singer Hassania. Born in Errachidia, she grew up in Azrou, wher...

Ouaboud Mohamed is a singer and bendir player from the region of Khenifra. Most recordings of Middle Atlas Amazigh music seem to be publish...

Here's a tape by a young Jamal Eddine Said Elhouate, known commonly these days as Said Ould El Houate. The singer and viola player was ...

US voters elected over 100 women to Congress in this week's midterm election. May they be as fierce as these awesome âouiniyat ladi...

After the success of Nouveau 92, Najat Aâtabou did not return to the oud and bendir format of her earlier hits. Rather, she adopted va...

Do not mess with these badass âouiniyat ladies, who come to you straight outta 1990s Marrakech armed with bendir -s, târija -s, and no...

Here's a slight upgrade to a tape I shared a few years ago. I wanted to share some more of the great Daqqa Marrakchiya music that ge...

Well whaddya know? The Stash yields another Tagada tape! This dates from around 1992, when Mohamed Louz was still a member of the group....

For those of you following the US elections: Haven't you had enough already? Haven't you already decided who you're voting f...

best guess personnel, clockwise from top center: Lahcen Bizenkad - lead vocal, bendir; Mohamed Abdelghani - guitar, vocal; Hassan Batch ...

Ramadan Mubarak to all, and Happy Father's Day! This is some of the best music ever! I recently inherited a box full of cassette...

Well look what I found inside the Hello Kitty Boom Box - it's a cassette on the Anzaha imprint out of Rabat! I've shared one oth...