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...

Well I just stumbled across a whole dramatic film starring Jil Jilala as a band called Jil Jilala! The film "Le Paradis des Pauvres جنة...

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...

Here's an upgrade of my all-time favorite Gnawa tape! This is a great recording of Marrakech's Mustapha Baqbou, solo with a guin...

Early 1980's Jil Jilala personnel.  Clockwise from top left: Moulay Tahar Asbahani, Mohamed Derhem, Moulay Abdelaziz Tahiri, Hass...

  I've been revisiting the Jil Jilala albums featuring the Gnawi mâalem Mustapha Baqbou. It's an interesting group of recording....

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...

Last weekend the 15th Gnawa Festival in Essaouira was held. The festival usually features a number of ad-hoc collaborations between Gnaw...

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

Dig it! GnawaMaVie's channel on YouTube has some great Gnawa audio (including some things I've posted on this blog). One fantas...