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Sounds ripped from cassettes & CDs found in immigrant-run mom & pop stores. Deconstructed icons. Field recordings. Sonic mayhem from the far corners of the internet.

Wednesday 7 - 10pm (EST) | On WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio
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Favoriting September 16, 2020: Lemchaheb | Jil Jilala | Nass El Ghiwane
Morocco's pop-folk triumvirate.

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Artist Track Album Year Comments Approx. start time

Music behind DJ:
Bodega Pop 
Intro   Favoriting
Bodega Pop 
2020 
 
0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Lemchaheb  Youmek Jak يومك جاك   Favoriting Youmek Jak يومك جاك      0:05:00 (Pop-up)
Lemchaheb  Tbedelti   Favoriting Youmek Jak يومك جاك      0:11:53 (Pop-up)
Lemchaheb  Daouini   Favoriting Khayi mon frère      0:12:49 (Pop-up)
Lemchaheb  Mersal (مرسال)   Favoriting El Arab (العرب)      0:21:09 (Pop-up)
Lemchaheb  Talet Bia Liam Abab   Favoriting Dawini      0:26:13 (Pop-up)
Dissidenten & Lem Chaheb  Inshallah   Favoriting Sahara Elektrik      0:29:43 (Pop-up)
Lemchaheb  Khelili-II (خليلي)   Favoriting El Arab (العرب)      0:36:21 (Pop-up)
Lemchaheb  Ya Chraa   Favoriting Ya Chraa      0:43:51 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Omar Khorshid 
Lama Bada Tatsana   Favoriting
Rhythms from the Orient 
 
 
0:55:32 (Pop-up)
Jil Jilala  Al-Jawad   Favoriting Jil Jilala      1:02:40 (Pop-up)
Jil Jilala  Palestine   Favoriting Achbik dekete leqdar      1:07:49 (Pop-up)
Jil Jilala  Assalamou alykoume   Favoriting El mizane      1:13:17 (Pop-up)
Jil Jilala  Dib el Ghaba   Favoriting La taïesse      1:17:54 (Pop-up)
Jil Jilala  Mali ya mali   Favoriting Nour el anouar, le meilleur de Jil Jilala      1:23:42 (Pop-up)
Jil Jilala  Nakar lahsane   Favoriting Chamaa      1:35:55 (Pop-up)
Jil Jilala  Errifia   Favoriting Achbik dekete leqdar      1:53:05 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Omar Khorshid 
Lama Bada Tatsana   Favoriting
Rhythms from the Orient 
 
 
1:58:59 (Pop-up)
Nass El Ghiwane  Ya Sah   Favoriting Hommage A Boudjemaa (A Paris Vol 2) - EP      2:05:36 (Pop-up)
Nass El Ghiwane  Ah Ya Ouine (Youm Malkak)   Favoriting 2nd Album    Get this one on Tim's blog here: https://moroccantapestash.blogspot.com/2011/06/nass-el-ghiwane-rare-2nd-album-with.html  2:14:37 (Pop-up)
Nass El Ghiwane  Palestine   Favoriting Le meilleur de Nass el Ghiwane      2:23:16 (Pop-up)
Nass El Ghiwane  Essiniya   Favoriting Disque d'or      2:29:16 (Pop-up)
Nass El Ghiwane  Mahamouni   Favoriting Lebtana      2:36:10 (Pop-up)
Nass El Ghiwane  Mahmouna   Favoriting Le meilleur de Nass el Ghiwane      2:43:01 (Pop-up)
Nass El Ghiwane  Alkiama   Favoriting Ennehla Chama      2:51:18 (Pop-up)
Nass El Ghiwane  Candil mdaoui   Favoriting Senia      2:56:15 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Catrina Paslaru 
Hei La Bodega   Favoriting
Hei La Bodega - Carnaval! 
 
 
2:58:06 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar 6:56pm
LambdaCalculus:

Evening, Gary!
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chresti:

Hi Gary, Lambda, Bodega show!
Avatar 7:02pm
LambdaCalculus:

Hey chresti!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:05pm
Gary:

LambdaCalculus! Chresti!
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melinda:

Hi friends! ready for some pop-folk.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:07pm
Gary:

Melinda!
  7:08pm
mzzm:

Hello.
Avatar 7:08pm
tim abdellah:

Hi Everyone - what Melinda said!
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Gary:

Tim!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:10pm
Franco Twinkie:

Gary, checking in from the barbecue epicenter of this grim country.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:10pm
Gary:

I'm sure you guys all know, but if not, Tim hosts the incredible Moroccan Tape Stash blog, where you can find some of the music we're playing tonight: moroccantapestash.blogspot.com
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:10pm
Gary:

Franco Twinkie! And Mzzm, you snuck in there!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:14pm
Gary:

Some music also came from moroccantapes.com and from lazyproduction-arabtunes.blogspot.com
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:15pm
Gary:

And some from my own CDs found here in Astoria, in Bayridge, and Marrakesh
Avatar 7:15pm
LambdaCalculus:

I need to dig through the tape stash again!
Avatar 7:18pm
tim abdellah:

We're open 24-7, Lambda! I haven't posted there for a while, but there's plenty of stuff from years past.
  7:20pm
mzzm:

oh no i got run but I will played it back from the archive later. It's my kind'a music.
  7:20pm
Maia:

Started bringing my headphones to work for this :)
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:21pm
Gary:

Maia! So happy to see you!
  7:24pm
northguineahills:

Gary! Why you Maghrebi rai off of that? (Finishing work) (Doug-worthy pun, right there).
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:26pm
Gary:

NGH! Pun on in, the water's rhyme
Avatar 7:26pm
tim abdellah:

Love me some Lemchaheb. They were one of the first Moroccan groups I ever heard. Picked up this CD at Down Home in El Cerrito about 30 years ago: www.discogs.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:27pm
Gary:

I love the cover of that one! Tim, I just reread your Lemchaheb are not the Village Green post last night and was cracking up
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:28pm
Gary:

For those of you who may not have read it yet: moroccantapestash.blogspot.com...
Avatar 7:30pm
tim abdellah:

Oh I like these Dissidenten collaborations!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:31pm
Gary:

I love this album, too, but I can't say the same for the one Dissidenten did with Jil Jilala. Do I need to back and relisten?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:33pm
Franco Twinkie:

I love this record too! They were so out in front when this came out.
Avatar 7:33pm
tim abdellah:

I kind of like the Dissidenten/Jil Jilala one as well. Especially the first cut with the really crunchy guitar chords! It's been a while since I listened to it, though.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:35pm
Gary:

I just discogged this one and I didn't realize how early it is: 1983
  7:37pm
northguineahills:

Ther last family interviewed was an Moroccan immigrant family. I blared you’re program w/ the windows open as I left.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:38pm
WR:

NHH, report from the field...
Avatar 7:39pm
tim abdellah:

That blogpost of mine is pretty funny - I had fun with the side-by-side Lemchaheb and Jefferson Starship photos!
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Gary:

WR!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:47pm
Gary:

Tim, I am so beyond in love with this band, why are they third on the triumvirate rung, is it just b/c they were third to start up?
Avatar 7:49pm
LambdaCalculus:

I have to say too that this is a damn good band.
Avatar 7:49pm
tim abdellah:

I think that is part of the reason. They did get started after NG/JJ were already successful.
  7:50pm
Maia:

This playlist is amazing!! Holy cow
Avatar 7:52pm
tim abdellah:

Damn - this is a Gnawa quote
Avatar 7:52pm
TDK60:

Hello Gary and Bodega Popstars.
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Gary:

TDK!
Avatar 7:54pm
tim abdellah:

Also, NG/JJ drew almost exclusively on Moroccan traditional musical sources (instruments and songs/genres). This was a huge deal because up to that point, modernity in Moroccan music was being sought on a Middle Eastern model - big string orchestras a la Umm Kulthum. So when Lemchaheb came out using non-Moroccan instruments like bouzouk, and non-Moroccan musical elements like vocal polyphony, it may have been seen as diluting the Moroccan modernity of NG/JJ with outside elements.
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tim abdellah:

But that's also one of the things that makes them so interesting, and their music sometimes more eclectic.
Avatar 7:57pm
tim abdellah:

Don't ask that Google lady how to speak Moroccan!!
Avatar 7:57pm
tim abdellah:

You are pronouncing the name correctly
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:04pm
Gary:

Haha, OMG, now I have to rethink my whole relationship with Google Translate Lady
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:07pm
WR:

tim, I downloaded a couple of your blog tape shares. Tried to make a comment but Firefox & blogspot & blogger & google cannot agree on the signon protocol. you have some spammer hitting your May post. And thank you so much for the sounds and the explanations!
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Gary:

Tim's blog is the Gold Standard
Avatar 8:10pm
tim abdellah:

Thanks WR! Sorry about the trouble with the comment box.
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WR:

Tim the comment box is nothing for you to worry about. I was just excusing myself for not leaving a comment. As typical, the next post I read, suddenly the page recognized the g account I was trying to use.
  8:21pm
mzzm:

back. glad it still in the same venue.
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Gary:

We were going to move to a bigger space with a better rug, but then we remembered you had stepped out, so we stayed here for you, mzzm
Avatar 8:23pm
tim abdellah:

This song is so cool - though I'm still sort of conflicted about the synthetic sounds. I mean why use a synth bass when you have the great guinbri player Mustapha Baqbou in your band!
Avatar 8:24pm
tim abdellah:

Above comment was for "Dib El Ghaba". On this track "Mali ya Mali" you can hear the actual guinbri.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:25pm
Gary:

They also used what sounded like a drum machine on I think Assalamou alykoume
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tim abdellah:

Definitely!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:25pm
chresti:

Love this Jilala.
Avatar 8:30pm
tim abdellah:

It's worth pointing out that Jil Jilala experimented with these electronic sounds in the early 1990s, almost 20 years after they began their career. So this is long after the time we were discussing earlier re: modernism and Moroccan-ness.
Avatar 8:34pm
northguineahills:

back at the hotel. Clicky finger, do your thang!
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Gary:

Get hyped for the next set with this post from Tim on Nass El Ghiwane's 2nd album (which we'll hear from later tonight): moroccantapestash.blogspot.com...
Avatar 8:51pm
northguineahills:

wait, I can get more hyped? I'll need a tranquilizer!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:52pm
chresti:

I'm stoked!
Avatar 9:03pm
tim abdellah:

I was lucky that I chose Mediafire to host the files - so many other platforms from those early blog days have been removed.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:07pm
Gary:

How did Mediafire stay out of the line of fire? Fight fire with fire?
Avatar 9:08pm
tim abdellah:

I know! It was basically a random choice by me to use Mediafire when I started the blog.
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tim abdellah:

Boudjemaa Hgour was one of the original members and creative forces of the group. He died very young, in 1974
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:11pm
Gary:

He appears on that second album you posted
Avatar 9:11pm
tim abdellah:

This album is called Hommage a Boudjemaa because it contains mid-70s remakes of songs they originally recorded with him a few years earlier.
Avatar 9:14pm
tim abdellah:

That being said, these versions are, for many, THE definitive versions of these songs, because that 2nd album with Boudjemaa is so hard to find. It remains unavailable on any of the streaming platforms, and I've never seen any sort of re-release of it. I wonder if the masters are lost.
Avatar 9:16pm
TDK60:

Great stuff.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:18pm
Gary:

My gosh, this is just -- Tim you gotta help get this back into print it's ethereal
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:25pm
chresti:

What TDK60 said. Hi TDK60.
Avatar 9:27pm
tim abdellah:

I would love to see it!! The record sleeve says it was recorded in France, and it has a Polydor imprint. I'd imagine that a master tape or at least a clean vinyl copy exists somewhere.
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chresti:

Thank you for the great blog posts, Tim.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:28pm
Gary:

There's one for sale in Spain: www.discogs.com...
Avatar 9:29pm
TDK60:

Hola Chresti, been a while. Smokey there?
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WR:

Great great music. I must admit I'm not saying much because my thoughts keep straying into Rolling Stones Jefferson Kinks similes. . .
Avatar 9:32pm
tim abdellah:

@Gary - yikes - $300!! (and only VG+)
@WR - LOL
@chresti - it's a pleasure to be able to share thoughts and tunes!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:33pm
Gary:

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Avatar 9:34pm
tim abdellah:

This song "Essiniya" is one of their first big hits. This one features Boudjemaa.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:38pm
Gary:

I guess there is a Nass El Ghiwane Cassette T-Shirt: www.redbubble.com...
Avatar 9:38pm
tim abdellah:

This song is "Mahamouni", not "Lebtana"
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:40pm
chresti:

TDK60 yes, sometimes smokier than others.
Avatar 9:40pm
TDK60:

Gee Gary, I like music too. Sounds. People playing, too.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:41pm
Gary:

Oh shoot, what? I have Mahamouni queued up next ... argh
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:42pm
chresti:

It seems stronger in the morning, I guess because the wind changes overnight.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:43pm
Gary:

Or wait, no I have Mahmouna queued up next
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:43pm
chresti:

Get your Ms in order.
Avatar 9:44pm
tim abdellah:

"Mahamouni" is different from "Mahmouma"
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:45pm
Gary:

I was busy minding my Ps and Qs and totally forgot about the Ms
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:45pm
Gary:

To, like, the Nth degree
Avatar 9:46pm
tim abdellah:

LOL!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:47pm
WR:

The sky in the east coast has been hazy grey for a couple of days and I read that it is from the fires on the west coast. It said that the haze is high altitude so not affecting air quality for us on the ground.
Avatar 9:53pm
TDK60:

WR I can see it more at sunset. The Sun real dark orange and not as shiny. / Is this the Arabic version of banjo I hear?
Avatar 9:53pm
northguineahills:

Beautiful, Gary! Inshallah!
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Ike:

Awesome. Morocco was my last trip in the Before Times, LOL. I didn't like everything about it but I enjoyed listening to the radio! One good station was called Cor-Med6 (I think) but I'm not sure I've ever found it on the net (or I can't be sure given that I don't read or speak Arabic or French).
Avatar 9:58pm
tim abdellah:

Yes - banjo for sure, though it looks like an American-style banjo (without the frets). I'm very curious about how it ended up being used across North Africa.
Avatar 9:58pm
TDK60:

Oh, it's time to go? Thanks Gary and Tim too..
Avatar 9:58pm
LambdaCalculus:

Thanks for a great show tonight,Gary!
Avatar 9:59pm
tim abdellah:

Great hangin' with y'all! G'nite!
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WR:

chau. Thank you Gary and Tim!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:00pm
Gary:

Goodnight, and thanks, everyone!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:00pm
chresti:

Thanks Gary!
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