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Moon over Morocco
Once in a faraway land there existed a knowledge of natural magic that has been lost to modern man. Jack Flanders treks to Morocco, believing that in this primitive country, where magic remains an integral part of daily life, he may find this knowledge. Jack discovers far more than he expected when he steps through the Gate of Peacocks, the entrance to that lost world. Jack has stepped out of modern day Morocco and into the realm where the knowledge of magic is a requisite survival skill.
The environments in Moon Over Morocco were recorded by author Meatball Fulton (a.k.a. Thomas Lopez) while traveling around that country. You'll hear the Medina, the Casbah, the music of the snake charmers, the lonely call to prayer from the minaret of the mosque, the dogs of Tangier as the moon becomes full, the music of the desert tribes recorded in the Sahara and Berber music recorded at festivals in the Grand Atlas and Rif Mountains. Music is recorded by Paul Bowles.
Featuring Robert Lorick as Jack Flanders, Robert Lesser as Kasbah Kelly, Dave Adams as Mojo Sam, and Taurean Blacque as the Storyteller Mustafa.
The environments in Moon Over Morocco were recorded by author Meatball Fulton (a.k.a. Thomas Lopez) while traveling around that country. You'll hear the Medina, the Casbah, the music of the snake charmers, the lonely call to prayer from the minaret of the mosque, the dogs of Tangier as the moon becomes full, the music of the desert tribes recorded in the Sahara and Berber music recorded at festivals in the Grand Atlas and Rif Mountains. Music is recorded by Paul Bowles.
Featuring Robert Lorick as Jack Flanders, Robert Lesser as Kasbah Kelly, Dave Adams as Mojo Sam, and Taurean Blacque as the Storyteller Mustafa.
8 pages, Audio CD
First published January 1, 1973
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November 24, 2012
If you've never heard of ZBS, they're a small company that produces audio adventures with rich soundscapes. They started in the early '70s and are still at it.
When I was a kid, I listened to my local NPR affiliate and heard parts of the first few ZBS adventure shows about the character Jack Flanders.
Moon Over Morocco is the second Jack Flanders adventure. It's similar in some ways to the first, The Fourth Tower of Inverness, but Moon Over Morocco is a more "grown-up" adventure. It features transcendent, powerful background sounds that were actually recorded in Morocco by author Paul Bowles. There are heavy references to the movie Casablanca -- the character Kasbah Kelly is a lot like Rick, and Mojo is a lot like Sam. But like every other Jack Flanders adventure I've heard, journeys to other dimensions are a must, and the doppelgangers and head trips come right and left.
I listened to the 50 episodes that make up Moon Over Morocco over the course of 10 weeks, one episode per weekday. In total, it's almost 12 hours, but taken in such small doses, it was a mind-altering little part of my day that I really looked forward to.
Oh, and it contains plenty of Arabic platitudes like "The dogs may bark, but the caravan passes on."
When I was a kid, I listened to my local NPR affiliate and heard parts of the first few ZBS adventure shows about the character Jack Flanders.
Moon Over Morocco is the second Jack Flanders adventure. It's similar in some ways to the first, The Fourth Tower of Inverness, but Moon Over Morocco is a more "grown-up" adventure. It features transcendent, powerful background sounds that were actually recorded in Morocco by author Paul Bowles. There are heavy references to the movie Casablanca -- the character Kasbah Kelly is a lot like Rick, and Mojo is a lot like Sam. But like every other Jack Flanders adventure I've heard, journeys to other dimensions are a must, and the doppelgangers and head trips come right and left.
I listened to the 50 episodes that make up Moon Over Morocco over the course of 10 weeks, one episode per weekday. In total, it's almost 12 hours, but taken in such small doses, it was a mind-altering little part of my day that I really looked forward to.
Oh, and it contains plenty of Arabic platitudes like "The dogs may bark, but the caravan passes on."
September 26, 2020
Sort of the beginning of the Jack Flanders stories. Jack meets Mojo.
August 16, 2021
We've been listening to the adventures of Jack Flanders off and on since I was in college. They'd run weekly on the PBS radio station. I know we got at least some of this adventure, because it's where we picked up "Never turn your back on a frog" but I remember more about Fourth Tower of Inverness. And I'm not sure we got the end of this one. Having gotten to the end now, I'm somewhat disappointed. It felt like it... lost it's way somewhere along the journey. Like they got to a certain point and weren't sure what to do with it after that. And it felt padded. David and I both noted that there were a lot of musical interludes that didn't advance the story, or seem necessary to create mood or sense of place.
November 10, 2019
Storytelling through background noise
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