Moroccan Tape Stash

Here's some killer Houariyat sounds from Marrakech. This women's vocal and percussion tradition is some of the most joyful, raucous ...

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

Wow, 2017 comes to a close. Some of this year was pretty awful, at least here in the US. And our current leadership won't be doing...

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

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

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...

Here's another Hamdawya cassette - seems to have been recorded at the same time as the one I posted last week . It has that same elect...

I was thrilled to see the return of the fantastic diva L'Hajja L'Hamdawya to prominence in Morocco over the last decade. Through ...

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...

A scratchy viola, a few buzzy hand drums, and some lady vocalists (or men emulating them) who milk 3 or 4 piercing pitches all night lon...

OK, this is one of the more obnoxious cassettes in my stash. You may love it, hate it, or both! Abdenbi ( Llah irhamuh ) used to flee the r...

Marrakchi old-school women's party music - rollicking call-and-response singing with funky stratified rhythms on a variety of buzz...