ON THE ROAD TO MARRAKESH

There’s a revival of Western interest in North African music. “Long before India and the hippy trail, Morocco provided a springboard into the exotic, right on Europe’s doorstep. As Westerners from Cecil Beaton and Joe Orton to William Burroughs and the Rolling Stones came here in search of easy drugs and risky sex, so Moroccan sounds fed into Western pop.” – London Telegraph