I am now going to attempt to share music with you from my time here. Most of it is not actually Moroccan, but it is all really good.
To begin with, this is my all time favorite band from my travels in Morocco. Tinariwen is a band from Mali which has made it their personal goal to preserve Tuareg culture and spread their fight for power through song. If you find this music as beautiful as I do, you should check out the music that my own Moroccan friends (really my desert tour guides) are making here: Imodda.
This song is epically popular across the generations in Morocco. The song is actually Algerian, but the bilingualism is relate-able across North Africa: Cheb Khaled
Although most young people listen to American pop music (which is unfortunately from the early 2000s or 90s- total time warp), there is some attempt to make their own pop music. Here is an R&B artist from Rabat, Ahmed Sultan.
For something a little more traditional, there is El Houssaine Kili with some beautiful Islamic songs.
I may have mentioned "trance" in here somewhere, particularly while traveling for spring break. Trance is a type of spiritual dance which is associated with gnawa music. It is Berber in nature, but has been adapted into some sort of outlying Moroccan tradition across time. What i mean is... hippies love it.
Rouicha is a traditional Berber musician who our Berber professor introduced us to. I find the music a little hard to follow from my western music training, but I think the womens voices are hauntingly beautiful.
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