Moroccan Tape Stash

Another "finally!" moment for Moroccan Tape Stash. Sharing today some tracks from the legendary artist Raïs Lhaj Mohamed Demsiri ...

Happy October! Back after an unexpected break with another tape of  ahwach ntfrkhine  - the women's ahwach  style that we featured in a ...

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

Here's another cassette of  amarg souss  from Raiss Hmad Amentague. Unlike the cassette we shared last week , this one does not sound li...

Here's a nice collection of sides from the  rrbab  player, singer, and composer Raiss Hmad Amentague (1927-2015). Amentag learned the cr...

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...

In 1959, noted American author and composer Paul Bowles made several trips around Morocco recording as many strains of Moroccan traditional...

Here's a vintage stash of folk music field recordings made and released in the 1950s and 1960s by one Jean Mazel, a French cinéaste ...

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

Here's a well-loved cassette from my first trip to Marrakech in 1992. The j-card went missing years ago, but I did manage to scribbl...

Here's some more of that good âwad -driven ahwach music . Âwad are the high-pitched flutes seen above, Mtougha (or Mtouga) is the ...

Well here's another Moroccan live album from La Voix el Maarif! This one is from the Soussi group Oudaden. Unlike our last live albu...

More goodies from the Nathan Salsburg stash. I can find no information whatsoever online about this smiling, right-handed, lotar -wield...

It's Easter Sunday here in Northern California, and we've got some much-needed rain! Here's another swell tape from Nath...

  Hello Dear Blogosphere - hope you've all been well! Sorry for the absence - ah, where does the time ...

Raïs Lhaj Belaïd was the first nationally renowned Chleuh (Soussi Berber) poet and musician. Since his death nearly 70 years ago, his co...

Two more lovely tapes today from Groupe Iâachaken. Like their first album , Iâachaken's second and third albums feature the particip...

The group Iâachaken was a Nass-el-Ghiwane-style folk revival band in the early 1990s. I don't think they ever achieved the notoriety...