Morocco Music Map｜12 Cities from Tangier to Merzouga｜Gnawa & Andalusian

49 minutes. 12 cities. From Tangier's blue hour to the silence of the Sahara. This is the first album from Soundport Project — a port for the world's sounds. Each track tries to capture the sonic identity of one Moroccan city: the salt wind off Tangier, the Andalusi suite of Fes, the Gnawa of Essaouira, the lantern night of Marrakech's Jemaa el-Fnaa, the desert hush of Erg Chebbi. Best with headphones. Best slow. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱ CHAPTERS 0:00 Tangier — North African gateway 3:17 Chefchaouen — The Blue Pearl of the Rif 6:59 Fes — Inside the 1,200-year-old medina 11:47 Meknes — Imperial city, Bab Mansour grandeur 18:03 Rabat — Capital, kasbah meets Atlantic 22:33 Casablanca — Modern Morocco, Hassan II Mosque 25:51 Asilah — Whitewashed artist village 30:09 Essaouira — Windy port, blue boats, Gnawa rhythms 34:10 Marrakech — Red city, lantern night 39:47 Agadir — Modern beach, Souss-Massa gateway 42:51 Ouarzazate — Mud-brick kasbahs, desert gold 45:56 Merzouga — Sahara dunes, the album's quiet exhale ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎵 ABOUT THE MUSIC Each track was researched, prompted with cultural specificity, and curated to capture the sonic identity of one Moroccan city. The instrumentation, scale, tempo, and structure of every piece were chosen to fit the city's geography, history, and traditional musical lineage — Andalusi suite for Fes, Gnawa trance for Essaouira, Berber ribab for Agadir, ney drone for Merzouga. Composed with AI tools, mastered to broadcast loudness (−14 LUFS), free of any sampled material. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📷 PHOTO CREDITS All photographs licensed for commercial use (Unsplash License & Pexels License). Tangier — Raúl Cacho Oses on Unsplash https://unsplash.com/photos/concrete-... Chefchaouen — Alari Tammsalu on Pexels https://www.pexels.com/photo/vibrant-... Fes — Micha Höfer on Pexels https://www.pexels.com/photo/bab-bou-... Meknes — Nicolas Postiglioni on Pexels https://www.pexels.com/photo/person-r... Rabat — Hongbin on Unsplash https://unsplash.com/photos/a-group-o... Casablanca — Fahad Al Rabbani Jillani on Unsplash https://unsplash.com/photos/a-large-w... Asilah — Diego F. Parra on Pexels https://www.pexels.com/photo/houses-n... Essaouira — Emma Van Sant on Unsplash https://unsplash.com/photos/blue-wood... Marrakech — Beatriz Troncoso on Unsplash https://unsplash.com/photos/a-large-c... Agadir — Sergey Sukhov on Unsplash https://unsplash.com/photos/a-city-ne... Ouarzazate — Henrik Le-Botos on Pexels https://www.pexels.com/photo/facade-o... Merzouga — Urtak Hoti on Unsplash https://unsplash.com/photos/a-group-o... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌍 SOUNDPORT PROJECT — A port for the world's sounds. Each album is a single album for one country, tracing a route through its cities. Subscribe to follow along — the next country drops when it's ready.