Original Boussiphone Recordings

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Label: Radio Martiko

This box contains 5 original LPs from 1971 in a new box set

In January and February 1971, Si Daty Ould Abba, the godfather of Moorish music and his wife Mounina Mint Eide did two extended recording sessions at the Boussiphone studios in Casablanca. As a result, sixteen 45rpm singles and five LPs were produced. These were the only commercial recordings made by Si Daty and Mounina and some of the first studio recordings of Mauritanian music. The singles were distributed and sold, but the LPs never got a commercial release and therefore no sleeves were made for these records. These albums remained unknown until Radio Martiko found a limited batch of unplayed stock copies at the Boussiphone archives a few years ago.

Limited to 158 boxes