For what I believe is the first time since its release in 1951, I'm making available the other side of Zohra El Fassia's classic 'Moulay Brahim,' a recording I find no less enthralling: Aïta Akki Atta. Take a listen here. soundcloud.com/gharamophone/z…

Twelve years ago, I posted my first Zohra El Fassia recording to Soundcloud. It was her iconic and pathbreaking 1951 rendition of 'Moulay Brahim'––and it has since travelled far and wide. soundcloud.com/gharamophone/z…

Will do a short thread on Zohra El Fassia soon. Her story still needs to be better known.

🔥🔥🔥 from Zohra El Fassia. Since uploading this 1940 recording yesterday, it has already been listened to 200+ times. I hope it reaches more ears soon. soundcloud.com/gharamophone/z…

Zohra El Fassia - Ah Ya Aua [Sides 1-2] (Polyphon, 1940) vía Gharamophone soundcloud.com/gharamophone/z…

Zohra El Fassia with a majestic interpretation of اه يا هناه. Originally recorded for Polyphon in 1940 and re-released slightly later by Philips. #NorthAfricaAt78rpm soundcloud.com/gharamophone/z…

My mind keeps returning to Morocco (and now, of course, Libya). 1/10

Chaque semaine, parcourir les rayonnages de Gallica BnF à la recherche de nouveautés, comme on le ferait dans les allées d'un marché aux puces. Ce matin, découverte d'une centaine de 78 tours du Maghreb, dont cette merveille de la chanteuse Louisa Tounsia c.bnf.fr/SGd

Hard to believe that Recording History was published a year ago today w/Stanford Press. Since then, I have been blessed to tour with it across N. America & discuss it virtually from Casa to Doha. With its upcoming Arabic translation, I look forward to continuing the conversation.

So very grateful for the coverage of 'Recording History' in Summer edition of Canadian Jewish News. My thanks to Phoebe Maltz Bovy for the beautiful write-up. thecjn.ca/paper/check-ou…

Records travel. Some of Jo Amar’s earliest recordings—found in the Québec countryside.

''Music remembers much of what history has forgotten,' writes Christopher Silver in his riveting new book, Recording History: Jews, Muslims, and Music Across Twentieth-Century North Africa.' Honored to have had my book reviewed by Alma Heckman. cjs.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cjs/…

'The book represents a landmark in the study of the musical cultures of North Africa [...] thereby setting a high bar for future scholarship on the region and its cultural dynamics.' Floored by Jonathan Shannon's generous review in The Journal of North African Studies.

“He asked for a kiss and I gave him a hundred.” And with Fritna Darmon's 'Ouh alia el hachmia,' the fiftieth record has been added to Gharamophone. Take a read and listen. gharamophone.com/2023/05/26/fri…

Also added to @gharamophone this week. gharamophone.com/2023/05/17/aro…

ICYMI, I have been updating @gharamophone with more and more music of late. This interpretation of an 18th century Hebrew language piyyut was added earlier this week. gharamophone.com/2023/05/09/abr…

Turn of the 20th century photo image of the Algerian Jewish master musician Eliaou “Laho” Seror.

Gharamophone 1930 Tunisian rhythms & stories for a positive weekend :
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'Much as the artist Aroun Haouzi El Baidi sings of sleepless nights and a fire blazing in his liver, the hope is that listeners here are awakened to a similar sensation when it comes to a musician who deserves much more by way of recognition.' gharamophone.com/2023/05/17/aro…

'On this mid-twentieth century recording, then, furnished by Abraham Arzouane in Casablanca, is an echo not only of a particular person and place but of multiple meaningful moments in time which stretch back to the end of the 18th century.' gharamophone.com/2023/05/09/abr…