Moroccan Tape Stash

Here's another cassette from the Marrakchi folk group Muluk el Hwa. I've sung their praises previously here and shared a compelling...

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

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...

First off, let me say that in fact there is no good reason to think of Lemchaheb as the Jefferson Airplane of Moroccan folk revival gro...

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

Composer, singer, percussionist, founding member of Jil Jilala, Mohamed Derhem left the group for a solo career in the mid 1990s. His in...

This is a gorgeous album by Jil Jilala, dating, I believe, from the mid 1980s. Jil Jilala have featured a guinbri player at various t...

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...

Wow - props to my blogosphere colleagues for a bumper few weeks of Moroccan grooves! Well worth checking out: Snap, Crackle & Pop ...