We recently visited Fes, Morocco for a week or so. We stayed in a beautiful hotel just on the edge of the Medina on a hill. It was a perfect spot to record the Call to Prayer that happens 5 times a day beginning at 5AM.
For those that might not be familiar with the Call to Prayer it is one of the strangest things you’ve ever heard, especially in the Medina as there are hundreds of mosques and minarets, all equipped with distorted loudspeakers and cheap microphones. The elder of the mosque starts wailing into this old fashioned PA system, then times that by 200 with each mosque trying to outdo the next in volume. It is eerie sounding.
It goes on for a while and is basically just a reminder to get to the mosque to do your prayer ritual.

Here is one of our recordings of the Call to Prayer:
call_to_prayer-fr9t_11-02.mp3

We’d like to welcome our newest composer to the Partners In Rhyme family,
Alan Marchand is adding his huge catalog of traditional jazz to the www.musicloops.com catalog.

A few of my current favorites are:

Summer Solstice with its steamy, romantic sax melody.

Down Memory Lane with its upright bass and 1930’s feel.

and of course there’s Melodious Thunk

These are all royalty free music clips that you can download immediately and start using in your commercial projects today. If you need that old-time, traditional jazz feel these royalty free music clips from Alan Marchand may be just what you need.