Moroccan Tape Stash

More vintage 1993 music this week, but from the eastern edge of Morocco rather than the west. This is a swell rai  cassette from Al Ikhwane ...

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 ...

This Moroccan rai tape is blowing up in my house right now. Specifically the leadoff track "Milano Machi Bladi (Milan is not my homelan...

I stumbled across this excellent rai tape via the great Mangue Music blog, which shared a link to a bunch of live world music performances ...

Here's a ready-for-summer album by Bouchenak (a.k.a. Les Fr ères Bouchenak), a longtime fixture on the Moroccan pop music scene, ou...

Happy 2014 y'all! The computer has been repaired, so I'm happy to get back to the blog! I have never visited the Rif region of...

Here's a chaâbi compliation tape I picked up in Beni Mellal. The title is "Shaâbiyat Khouloud with Kamal el Abdi". I r...

Hi everyone. I was a little busy and distracted in the late spring, and my posts have been sporadic of late. But summer is officially ...

First off - if you use Firefox, I highly recommend you install the Lazarus add-on - it makes a cache of things you type in forms so tha...