MUSIQUE POPULAIRE MAROCAINE VOLUME 1
Documents recueillis par Jean Mazel
Grand prix national du disque
MOROCCAN FOLK MUSIC VOL.1
Documents gathered by Jean Mazel
National record award
BAM-Edition AZ, 1975, BAM 5435
Jean Mazel was a French ethnologist who specialized on Morocco. He published several LPs and EPs mostly for BAM. Some of the recordings issued on EP were reissued on LPs like this one. This is a reedition of the 1968 issue with a different cover.
Three regions are presented here : the Middle Atlas, the Chleu country and the Great Moroccan South.
As usual with this kind of album most of the tracks are excerpts of longer songs and dances. But these labels like BAM played an important role in the dissemination of music that was far removed from the musical knowledge of the general French public at the time. This LP gives a good picture of the diversity of Moroccan folk music.
Thank you very much Herve for this unique recording!! Great music Great sounds. According to discogs this album has 20 tracks. Your rip has 21 tracks and 2 tracks with same No...B6...Could you please help/clarify? Cheers
ReplyDeleteHi Leonidas; yes the original track B6 has 2 songs but I divided it in 2 tracks by mistake during the digitization hence the extra track.
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