Launching Gharamophone.com and retiring Jewish Maghrib Jukebox

After many years, I am quietly retiring my blog "Jewish Maghrib Jukebox" (and formerly "Jewish Morocco"). But not to fear! Not only will I keep "Jewish Maghrib Jukebox" live –– and so too the many hours of music –– for as long as it makes sense, I have at the same time launched a new effort at Gharamophone.com. The site –– the first online archive of its kind –– is dedicated to "preserving North Africa's Jewish musical past, one record at a time."

And for our first post on Gharamophone.com, we have something special: an impossibly rare Salim Halali tango from 1945. I strongly suggest you take a read and a listen: https://gharamophone.com/2017/10/23/salim-halali-je-tappartiens-tango-pathe-c-1945/.