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  AMP, Alternate Music Press, The Multimedia Journal of New Music
Unknown to the western world for most of their history, the Master Musicians Of Jajouka were "discovered" in the 1950s by beat novelist William Burroughs and Paul Bowles, who recorded the band for the Library Of Congress.
Musicians are magicians in Morocco, and they bear the mark of the conjurer, the magic man. They are evokers of the djenoun forces, spirits of the ills and the flocks and above all; the spirits of music.
In the early 1990s, the Master Musicians Of Jajouka were led by Bachir Attar, whose father had led the group in the late 1960s.
www.alternatemusicpress.com /features/jajouka.html   (1611 words)

  
  The Master Musicians of Joujouka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Master Musicians of Joujouka are a musical ensemble from the village of Joujouka near Ksar-el-Kebir in the Ahl Srif mountains in the southern Rif Mountains of northern Morocco.
The music of Joujouka is a form of reed, pipe, and percussion music that relies on drones, improvisation, and complex rhythms, much of which is unique to Joujouka.
Prior to the colonization of Morroco by France and Spain, the musicians were said to be the royal musicians of the sultans.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Master_Musicians_of_Joujouka   (1022 words)

  
 World Music @ BareHands.com (Bare Hands)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Musicians from diverse cultures and locations could readily access recorded music from around the world, see and hear visiting musicians from other cultures and visit other countries to play their own music, creating a melting pot of stylistic influences.
Since at least the Renaissance, musicians, composers, music publishers (and, in the 20th century, radio stations and recording companies) have been part of a wide-ranging and continuous process of cultural appropriation that developed in the wake of the European colonisation of America, Africa, Asia and Oceania.
In the 1890s working-class dancers, composers and musicians in the La Boca area of Buenos Aires in Argentina invented a daring and sensual new dance style which was dubbed the tango.
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 Master Musicians of Joujouka
The Joujouka myth of Boujeloud, heralding the arrival of music in the village, is paralleled in the Greek myth of Pan.
In the Joujouka legend, Boujeloud, the half-man half-goat, gave a flute to a shepherd in return for the promise of a wife.
The Master Musicians of Joujouka are legendary Sufi trance masters from North Morocco.
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 www.myspace.com/mastermusiciansofjoujouka   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Joujouka is a small village in the Al Srif mountains in Northern Morocco.
The saint felt that because the musicians in Joujouka used a special breathing technique, breathing in and out simultaneously, their music could be harnessed to heal the sick.
Before a mosque was built in Joujouka the musicians traditionally met on Friday mornings in the sanctuary of Sidi Achmed Sheich to play this healing music beside his tomb.
www.myspace.com /mastermusiciansofjoujouka   (1188 words)

  
 Pschic TV and Guests @ Royal Festival Hall reviewed by freeradicalsounds.com
For lovers of the obscure, the weird and the 'out there', this event proved to be a veritable feast of strangitude, and a triumph for the right to 'be different' in the face of social conformity.
Next up are the Master Musicians - '4000 year old rock n roll band', enactors of the original fertility 'Rites of Pan'and purveyors of primal trance music which makes the whole techno - trance scene appear somewhat flat in comparison.
The horns / pipes which start their set rise to a tone which seems to resonate inside your head, and the surging refrain that follows is unmistakable - you can see why counterculture icons such as Brion Gysin, William Burroughs and Brian Jones were fascinated by this music.
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 Master Musicians of Joujouka: Brion Gysin
The modern reputation of The Masters Musicians of Joujouka is deeply associated with the Beat Generation.
Together with Hamri he set up the 1001 Nights restaurant in Tangier and they brought Joujouka musicians to play there on a rotation basis.
For several years the Masters played daily to the Western audience that the 1001 Nights attracted.
joujouka.net /2Legacy/10/brion-gysin   (210 words)

  
 The Master Musicians of Jajouka - Free Music Downloads, Videos, Lyrics, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
An album produced by the Rolling Stones' Brian Jones a month before his drowning death in 1969, Brian Jones Presents: The Master Musicians of Jajouka introduced the unique sound of the Master Musicians of Jajouka to much of the Western world.
At the time, the group had been performing their unique, drone-heavy music for several thousand years.
The Master Musicians of Jajouka Featuring Bachir Attar
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 The Rolling Stones > Biography at MyStrands
Their patron at this point was the renowned musician Alexis Korner, who had arranged their debut gig at London's Marquee club on 21 July 1962.
In their first few months the band met some opposition from jazz and blues aficionados for their alleged lack of musical "purity" and the line-up remained unsettled for several months.
After nearly 30 years in existence, the Rolling Stones began the 90s with the biggest grossing international tour of all time, and ended speculation about their future by reiterating their intention of playing on indefinitely.
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