That last M'Hamed Dammou post reminded me that I need to post this, the first Izmaz LP.  Now, the other (second) Izmaz LP we posted ...

Sunshine. Red boulders. Clear blue skies. Barren moonscapes break unexpectantly into lush green valleys filled with date palms....

We have Joachim to thank for providing us with this wonderful music.  The cassette came without a cover and the print on the case has worn o...

This cassette is another of the wonderful treasures provided by Joachim.  It's Berber music complete with banjos, rabab and hectic pe...

Izanzaren should need no introduction to regular visitors to this here little backwater of the internet.  If you haven't hear...

Okay...there are 6 songs on this fine cassette and I don't know the titles of any of them so, as usual, any information you good peopl...

Here's another of the cassettes I picked up on my most recent Marrakech excursion.  This one is quite unusual in that the guitar, viol...

Izmaz started playing in 1976 and featured a young Ali Chouhad, who later went on to form Archach . This is beautiful, raw banjo led mounta...

Jil Jilala were (alongside Nass el Ghiwane and Lemchaheb ) one of the trinity of groups that emerged in the late '60s and early '7...

It's been a long time since I posted any music from Morocco as I've been too busy trying to keep up with the gorgeous deluge of Maur...

It's strange how elastic time has become, or maybe has always been. I've been posting here at Snap, Crackle and Pop for just over th...

Here is another of the cassettes I picked up in Marrakech recently. This is vintage stuff from Ali Chouhad and Groupe Archach. Beautiful...

"The most important single element of Morocco's folk culture is its music...the entire history and mythology of the people is cloth...

Apologies to anyone who downloaded this from the earlier post, I had forgotten to boost the volume on the files and so the whole thing soun...

Lemchaheb , or The Torches, were along with Nass El Ghiwane and Jil Jilala, one of the founding groups of Moroccan Chaabi, a popular musica...

Ok, I'm back from a quick trip to Marrakech and I come back bearing some musical goodies. I thought we could begin with some more begui...

As a special festive treat, here is the last of Uncle David's Moroccan cassettes, and this one's a complete mystery. The words ...

Here is another of Uncle David's wonderful cassettes, and I think this one may be my favourite. I believe the lady in the picture is Fa...

Well, here are some mysterious grooves from Morocco courtesy of Uncle David. I can give you absolutely no information about this one, any i...

Last weekend my girlfriend and I went to a family party where Uncle David lent me a bunch of tapes that he got whilst travelling a few years...