Moroccan Tape Stash

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

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 ...

A pair of albums this week, from lotar player and singer Hamid Almou. Like Rouicha, Almou has a groovy touch on the lotar , has a smooth, l...

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...

Here's a tape from Meknassi mâllem Hamid al-Hadri. Another tape of his, available in the Stash here , features songs from the openi...

As Chaâbane winds down, here's some Gnawa music for you, before Ramadan arrives. One of two Gnawa tapes I picked up in 1999 in M...

Continuing with my recent set of trance brotherhood music tapes from the Meknes area (after Aissawa and Gnawa ), here's a tape of H...

In the weeks following the Eid al Miloud , pilgrimage celebrations ( moussem -s) are held all over Morocco at the shrines of local awliy...

Hard days in the music blogosphere. Sad to find the great Holy Warbles took a hit, though I have no doubt that the Owl will rise again! ...