Moroccan Tape Stash

Here's a cassette of Aita Haouzia from the year 2000. The performers are the group Ouled el Haouz featuring Shikh Hassan Dariouki (here ...

I tell ya, some of the best fun I've had in Morocco has been at parties in Marrakech where a tkitikat group comes to play. I'm surp...

US voters elected over 100 women to Congress in this week's midterm election. May they be as fierce as these awesome âouiniyat ladi...

Do not mess with these badass âouiniyat ladies, who come to you straight outta 1990s Marrakech armed with bendir -s, târija -s, and no...

Here's a slight upgrade to a tape I shared a few years ago. I wanted to share some more of the great Daqqa Marrakchiya music that ge...

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...

Well look what I found inside the Hello Kitty Boom Box - it's a cassette on the Anzaha imprint out of Rabat! I've shared one oth...

I noticed recently that an old post of mine on Shikh El Houcine el Khouribgui was getting a lot of hits recently. I also noticed that M...

Ramadan Mubarak, and prayers for the bereaved in Iraq, Syria, Palestine/Israel, the relatives of those lost over the skies of Ukraine, a...

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

In honor of Ashura , which is celebrated this week, I'm breaking away momentarily from my series of Jbala posts to return to my belo...

Some more great Âita  Zaêriya for ya, straight outta Khouribga, served up by Production Hicham Atlas . Couldn't find any info on Sh...

You want this tape! Long, sweaty tracks of âita zaêriya , just right for that we-can-do-this-all-night-long summer wedding vibe. The sou...

Ya know 'em, ya love 'em! Here's another vintage cassette of houariyat songs. These are all in the standard 6/8 chaâbi rhy...

Here's some raw, old-school âbidat errma . Unlike the tapes I posted last week , which featured young lads riding the revival in the...

Âbidat Errma - a traditional rural genre, found around the region of Khouribga. Similar in some respects to âita - some of its poetry...

This CD sort of does double duty - you've got some lady-driven call-response singalong tunes (which would probably sound just fine...

Greetings everyone, and thanks for the comments and greetings during Ramadan! I hope to catch up on correspondence soon. Morocco was H...

I wanted to post more chaâbi after my last chaâbi post , but didn't find anything that inspired me. Like I said last week, my fave c...

Sorry for the long time between posts these days. It's getting interesting here around Oakland ! Continuing with more Moroccan oud...