Moroccan Tape Stash

  It's about time we got around to posting about La Tabaamrant! Fatima Tabaamrant (b. 1962) is a powerhouse singer, songwriter, and acti...

This tape comes to us courtesy of Peter at the still active, still great มนต์รักเพลงไทย blog. The group is called Toudadine. I gather that ...

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

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

This tape comes to us from... well, down the street in El Cerrito, California, where I found and purchased it! This is a swell album from si...

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...

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...

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

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...

Here's some more of that Moulay Ahmed Elhassani for ya. Track 4 of this album was featured on the Moroccan Tape Stash episode of Bod...

best guess personnel, clockwise from top center: Lahcen Bizenkad - lead vocal, bendir; Mohamed Abdelghani - guitar, vocal; Hassan Batch ...

Ramadan Mubarak to all, and Happy Father's Day! This is some of the best music ever! I recently inherited a box full of cassette...

The group Tagada arose in the 1970s alongside other Arabophone "folk revival" groups like Nass el Ghiwane, Jil Jilala, and Lem...

Here's a 2009 tape from guitarist/singer Moulay Ahmed Elhassani. An early tape of his was featured in one of the first posts on Moro...