Music of Morocco: Recorded by Paul Bowles, 1959, by Various Artists

Music of Morocco: Recorded by Paul Bowles, 1959

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Jared Covington This is so gorgeous and hypnotic. Track 25 is one of the most amazing things I've ever heard.

Desert Dancer This is a great collection of obscure and valuable Moroccan tribal music.
Recorded by the one and only Paul Bowles, a literary giant.

Favorite track (one of them), Mouwal and Izlan (Ain Diab).

John Cratchley Paul Bowles recorded so much music whose source has now been irrevocably lost; sub-cultures dissolved and fragmented...forcibly moved on...we owe him such a great debt.
As do we Dust To Digital for another release of unparalleled detail and thoroughness...
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From July to December 1959, Paul Bowles crisscrossed Morocco making recordings of traditional music under the auspices of the Library of Congress. Although the trip occupied less than six months in a long and busy career, it was the culmination of Bowles’s longstanding interest in North African music. The resulting collection remained a musical touchstone for the rest of his life and an important part of his mythology.
More than four hours of newly-remastered audio plus extensive liner notes by scholar Philip Schuyler. Field notes by Paul Bowles and Introduction by Lee Ranaldo. Download includes 120-page PDF book.

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	1.	Ahmeilou (Tafraout) 03:56
	2.	El Baz Ouichen Song for Male Voice (Tiznit) 08:12
	3.	Third Sqel (Zagora) 08:32
	4.	Second Aqlal (Zagora) 07:55
	5.	Ouakha dial Kheir Women’s Chorus (Tahala) 02:39
	6.	Aili ya Mali Mixed Chorus (Tahala) 09:47
	7.	Aouache Men’s Chorus (Tafraout) 07:27
	8.	Aouada Trio (Tamanar) 10:02
	9.	Chorus and Dance (Tamanar) 13:59
	10.	Reh dial Beni Bouhiya Qsbah Solo (Segangan) 04:57
	11.	Sounds of General Rejoicing (Ait Ourir) 01:41
	12.	Albazaoua Women’s Chorus (Ait Ourir) 06:26
	13.	Mouwal and Izlan (Ain Diab) 10:48
	14.	Qim Rhori (Khenifra) 13:47
	15.	Qsida dial Malik (Ait Mohammed) 11:52
	16.	Ounalou Biha Rajao Male Solo with Women’s Chorus (Goulimine) 10:58
	17.	Aiyowa d’Moulay Abdeslam Rhaita Solo (Arcila) 01:05
	18.	Rhaitas and Tbola (Einzoren) 12:36
	19.	Mellaliya Song for Male Voice (Marrakech) 03:45
	20.	Taqtoqa Jabaliya (Fez) 12:19
	21.	Gnaoua Chorus (Essaouira) 12:19
	22.	Gnaoui Solo Song (Marrakech) 02:56
	23.	Fulani Iresa (Marrakech) 04:45
	24.	Hadouk Khail (Marrakech) 12:35
	25.	Ya Souki hakim Secular Sephardic Song (Meknes) 07:31
	26.	Chalom Lakha Chébii “Peace on the Seventh Day” (Essaouira) 08:50
	27.	Qsida Midh (Meknes) 09:52
	28.	El hgaz el Mcharqi Andaluz Chorus (Fez) 27:25
	29.	Andaluz Music of Ouezzane (Ouezzane) 20:11
	30.	El Fjer (Tangier) 01:36

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