Moroccan Tape Stash

Dig it! Here's a delightful cassette from singer and guitarist Haim Bobtol (billed on his Tichkaphone releases as Abitbol). You can read...

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...

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

Yes! Here's another vintage Najat Aâtabou tape!  Judging from Edition Hassania catalog numbers, and unless there are some additional Naj...

I had asked the tape seller if he had any Gnawa tapes. He pulled down this one, popped it in the deck for me, and pushed play. I thought to ...

New Jeblia Selections is probably a better translation, but New Mountain Variety (which Google gave me as a translation of  منوعات جبلية جدي...

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 ...

Well here's something old yet different - it's a tape of songs by lotar -master Rouicha , performed by a 1980s chaâbi orchestre - v...

If you read my blogposts, you know I'm not always a fan of the keyboard bass that became prevalent in the mid 1990s in Moroccan chaâbi ...

Aaaah... a Moroccan wedding on a hot urban summer night about 30 years ago. The smell of mint tea and the amplified, saturated sounds of a b...

Here's a very nice album by Jadwane (usually spelled Jedwane, usually billed as Orchestre Jedwane). El Mokhtar Jedwane is a chaâbi sing...

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 ...

Here's a sampler from the label Sawt Bab Mansour out of Meknes. 4 long tracks each by a different artist. This was released in the s...

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

Ramadan Mubarak - may your month be full of thankfulness and remembrance, and may you be uplifted and sustained. In bygone times, the ...

Here's another Najat Aâtabou album that I don't see anywhere else online. It's from 2001, the followup to "Attention A ...

Salaams, good people! Sorry for the long dry spell. All's fine here at Moroccan Tape Stash, despite the generally befuddling times....

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...