ossory
Casablanca as the city whose name simply means ‘white house,’ with a mosque built out over the Atlantic, a brand-new ‘old medina,’ and a world-famous movie that was actually shot in Burbank — every joke sincerely true. You say Casablanca; we call it Casa.
We Call It Casa
Style
Fast Moroccan chaabi-and-Gnawa folk-rock at roughly 150 BPM with qraqeb castanets, bendir and darbouka percussion, guembri bass lute and twangy electric guitars, trading a gravelly Casablanca-accented male baritone against a bright, zaghareet-tinged female lead in call-and-response.