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  • Les Succes de Botbol Du Maroc 2 (CD, front cover), shows Botbol playing oud and singing with two violinists, a derbouka player and another oud player, all in white shirts with black bow-ties (Botbol also a suit jacket).

    Botbol’s Moroccan Hits

    Enjoying this new Botbol CD on a snowy Sunday afternoon. No liner notes, though. Darn! But it does include the well-known Yah Rayah by Dahmane Harrachi: Hey, immigrant, where are you going? Sooner or later you will come back exhausted. Many ignorant people regretted this before you and me. How many overpopulated countries and empty…
    January 29, 2023
    Botbol, Chaâbi, Morocco, Music

  • Listening to Hachemi Gerouabi

    What better on a relaxed holiday day than listening to Hachemi Guerouabi, grand master of chaâbi music (people's or folk music) from Algiers?   Chaâbi came from working class areas in Algiers' casbah.  Its singers generally were city people displaced from rural areas.  They took melody from the classical Andalusian music that came to North…
    September 7, 2020
    Algeria, Chaâbi, Colonialism, Music