Moroccan Tape Stash

Here's a swell tape from singer Latifa Raafat, one of the great latter-day singers of Moroccan chanson, aka chanson moderne, aka musiqa ...

Here's a tape of songs by composer, oud player, singer, and conductor Brahim El Alami (1930-2000). I believe they date from the 1960s an...

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

Here's a nice album in the chanson moderne style by singer Ghita ben Abdeslam. Born into an artistic family, Ghita is the niece of s...

After the success of Nouveau 92, Najat Aâtabou did not return to the oud and bendir format of her earlier hits. Rather, she adopted va...

Riffing this week on hawglblawg 's recent post " Algerian Twist ", which gathers some Algerian twist-related singles, I...

Here's another goodie from Najat Aatabou, the siren of Khemisset, whose first album I posted here some time ago. As I mentioned t...

Here's some old school chanson moderne (musiqa 'asriya) from the 1950's-60s. Mohamed Fouiteh was a singer, composer and o...

  A lovely album from my fave singer of chanson moderne (or musiqa 'asriya ). This genre represents the Moroccan version of 20th cent...