Moroccan Tape Stash

Here's a vintage stash of folk music field recordings made and released in the 1950s and 1960s by one Jean Mazel, a French cinéaste ...

Here's some late '90s Middle Atlas Amazigh viola-driven pop music. On the spectrum between the two Amazigh viola tapes I shared...

Here's a well-loved cassette from my first trip to Marrakech in 1992. The j-card went missing years ago, but I did manage to scribbl...

Here's some more of that good âwad -driven ahwach music . Âwad are the high-pitched flutes seen above, Mtougha (or Mtouga) is the ...

Well here's another Moroccan live album from La Voix el Maarif! This one is from the Soussi group Oudaden. Unlike our last live albu...

Here's a live album from Najat Aâtabou released around 1985, not long after she first burst onto the Moroccan music scene. She's...

More goodies from the Nathan Salsburg stash. I can find no information whatsoever online about this smiling, right-handed, lotar -wield...

It's Easter Sunday here in Northern California, and we've got some much-needed rain! Here's another swell tape from Nath...

  Hello Dear Blogosphere - hope you've all been well! Sorry for the absence - ah, where does the time ...

Raïs Lhaj Belaïd was the first nationally renowned Chleuh (Soussi Berber) poet and musician. Since his death nearly 70 years ago, his co...

Two more lovely tapes today from Groupe Iâachaken. Like their first album , Iâachaken's second and third albums feature the particip...

The group Iâachaken was a Nass-el-Ghiwane-style folk revival band in the early 1990s. I don't think they ever achieved the notoriety...

We love dem scratchy violas here at Moroccan Tape Stash! Usually, we like 'em served them up with some shikhat in old-school âita ...

Our final Riffi tape post is an album by Mimoun Ousaid, who is based in Nador. He has been composing, performing, and recording since ...

Here's some more Riffi song. I originally thought this tape, from Y2K, was an anonymous Riffi album - the title "Najmat Errif...

Happy 2014 y'all! The computer has been repaired, so I'm happy to get back to the blog! I have never visited the Rif region of...

The trusty laptop had a close encounter with a cup of coffee recently, which has taken the wind out of my blogging. Hopefully all will b...

Yep, its 100% Tamghra, according to the j-card! Tamghra means "wedding" in Tachelhit. The Arabic tag on the left side reads s...

Another ahwach cassette for ya this week. As I mentioned in my last post , there are many different regional forms of ahwach . I do...

Here's a swell recording of ahwach , the communal song-dance-drum tradition of the Tachelhit-speaking Imazighen/Berbers of southern...