This box set commemorates one of the most legendary field recording expeditions ever made. From July to December 1959, Paul Bowles crisscrossed Morocco making recordings of traditional music under the auspices of the Library of Congress. Traveling an estimated 25,000 miles, Bowles captured vocal and instrumental music of various tribes and other indigenous populations at 23 locations throughout the country. It was the culmination of Bowles’s longstanding interest in North African music.
Included are four CDs with D/L code in a silkscreened box with 120-page, foil-stamped, leatherette book, featuring extensive liner notes by Philip Schuyler; field notes by Paul Bowles; and an introduction by Lee Ranaldo.
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