Radio Morocco

Various Artists
Sublime Frequencies
World | Apr 2004

Reviews

Manoneet Singh
Reviewed 2004-08-05
Imagine you’re flipping lazily through the channels on Moroccon radio on a dreary African summer afternoon. What would you hear? This album tells you what.

Each track here is a seemingly random string (“collage”) of sound fragments drawn from radio Morocco, including sports and news commentary (in English, French, and Arabic); commercials; Middle Eastern music; Europop and more. The contents transition abruptly on each track, without continuity and often without reason. Interesting concept till the novelty begins to wear off.

If you play just one track, though (and it doesn’t matter which one you pick), you’ll get a good field recording of what life was like in this little nook of the world in the early 1980s.

Recent airplay

Radio Tangier Internationale
Radio Tangier Internationale
Radio Fes
Radio Of ImaginationAug 15, 2006
Radio Chechaouen [excerpt]
Rock in a PositionFeb 16, 2006
Radio Marrakesh
The Color of Frequency
radiomundiSep 25, 2004

Charting

2004-08-23 — 2004-10-25 Reggae/World
Week EndingAirplays
Oct 3 1
Sep 26 2
Sep 5 1

Track listing

1. Radio Tangier Internationale
2. Quartertone Winds
3. Radio Chechaouen
4. Chante Du Tamri
5. Radio Fes
6. The Medina of Sound
7. Radio Marrakesh
8. The Color of Frequency
9. Radio Essaouira