Moroccan Tape Stash

Here's a very nice and interesting cassette from the recently departed, much missed Mustapha Baqbou, and it's unlike any other albu...

  Here's a nice old-school Gnawa cassette from Mâalem Mohamed Daoui. During my research days (late 1990s - early 2000s), Daoui was the m...

It's 2026 and the heyday of the music blog recedes into the rearview mirror of our music consumption patterns along with the era of the ...

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This post looks at the short but seminal period of Nass el Ghiwane 2.0, from the time Abderrahmane Paco replaces Moulay Abdelaziz Tahiri unt...

Time keeps on slippin' slippin' slippin' into the future... and the cassette era recedes further and further back in the rear vi...

Here's another great cassette by Mustapha Baqbou: a nicely recorded effort with Maalem Mustapha accompanied by what sounds like 4 singer...

Still hard to believe that Mustapha Baqbou is gone. The great  guinbri  player from Marrakech passed away in September, as we commemorated i...

I was very sad to hear this week that the Gnawa master Mustapha Baqbou passed away on September 8. I've sung his praises over the years...

Something different this week. This is a recording of four members of the Algerian group Noujoum Eddiwane who spent a couple months in the S...

I stumbled across this on Discogs - street recordings from Marrakech in 2018, released by Radio Khiyaban out of the Netherlands. Sounds fro...

Kasbah is the third of the three albums released in Spain by Marrakchi folk ensemble Muluk el Hwa. Recorded in 1991 and released in 1992, t...

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...

A friend and neighbor of the Stash has shared with us an undistorted version of this Muluk el Hwa album. Many years ago I shared here a co...

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

Hi Folks - A Tunisian detour before we get back to some more Moroccan material.  I've been obsessing over the song "Sidi Mansour...

When "Gnawa" is on the package, you never know what you'll find inside. I recently obtained this 45 rpm 7" record. It lik...