The Roving Musicologist

Marramess

It didn’t smell as bad as most of it.

This is a collection of the few decent recordings I got in Morocco.  You get to hear all of them at once.  Within these clips, there occurred scams such as: someone goes around with a plate and takes an offering for the musicians.  Then when you take a picture the musician demands money and you find out the guy with the plate had nothing to do with the musician.  Supposedly.  Also, my female Moroccan friend who was showing me around Marakesh was constantly having her ass grabbed whenever we stopped to see someone play music.  Also, my own culture shock and frustration in dealing with people who live off of tourists’ money kept me from going out  as much as I would’ve liked.  But after three weeks in Morocco I was able to have a little more fun with it…hopefully I’ll be better prepared to find more stuff in Turkey.