Moroccan Tape Stash

Nass el Ghiwane - the game changers. Bursting onto the Moroccan musical scene in 1972 out of the slums of Hay Mohammadi ...

Here's a tape from  chaâbi  pioneers Noujoum Bourgogne. As mentioned in our recent post about Zitouni Bourgogne, the group came out of ...

This album was shared a few years by Gary ago over at Bodega Pop . (Thanks Gary!!) I finally spent some time with it and did some digging t...

2 long tracks of 21st century âita & chaâbi for your pleasure, from the microphone of Haj Abdelmoghit. I know I tend to wax nostalgic ...

Here's some of that good early 90s chaâbi ! The artist here is Orchestre Nassim Bourgogne - not to be confused with the famous Noujoum ...

Long drawn out medleys? Check. Âita melodies and structures? Check. Scratchy viola and punchy darbuka ? Check. Drum kit, electric guita...

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...

No Marriage, No Work, No Home.  That's the album title listed on this cassette from Bouchaib Ziyani, singing violist from Casablanca...

A generous hour-long cassette from Kamal El Abdi , the popular viola-slinging singer from Casablanca (originally from Khouribga/Beni Mel...

Here's another Hamdawya cassette - seems to have been recorded at the same time as the one I posted last week . It has that same elect...

I was thrilled to see the return of the fantastic diva L'Hajja L'Hamdawya to prominence in Morocco over the last decade. Through ...

About 10-12 years ago, there seemed to be an explosion of pop hits in Morocco making reference to trance of one flavor or another. I do...

Instead of poring through the Lomax collection yesterday, I decided to pore through a stash of about 75 cassettes I inherited from a ...

Here's one of my fave cassettes - a particularly fierce Jilala tape for ya. Picked this up in the mid-'90s, I think in Marrakech ...

OK - enough with the Pokémon you say? Scraping the bottom of the stash? Au contraire! If chaabi Pokémon ain't your style, consider i...