Palm Wine "Dreamachine mix" [2 min. excerpt]

Palm Wine "Dreamachine mix" [2 min. excerpt] by Palm Wine

Réservez dès à présent pour le festival des Master Musicians of Joujouka, 8, 11 et 10 juin 2012 Réservez dès maintenant ici

Réservez dès à présent pour le festival des Master Musicians of Joujouka, 8, 9 et 10 juin 2012 Réservez dès maintenant ici 

Festival des Master Musicians of Joujouka, 8, et 9 et 10 juin 2012.
A : Joujouka (Jajouka), Maroc

Boujeloud dansant au Festival célébrant le 40ème anniversaire de la visite de Brain Jones à Joujouka, 
Joujouka, Maroc, Juillet 2008. Photo Jill Furmanovsky/Rock Archive

Les Master Musicians of Joujouka sont heureux d’annoncer leur festival d’été, du 8 au 11 juin 2012, qui se tiendra dans leur village au Maroc. Les festivaliers seront hébergés par les musiciens et leurs familles et participeront à trois jours et trois nuits de musique Sufi rituelle dans son environnement d’origine. Toute la nuit du samedi 11 juin, les musiciens célébreront le rituel de Boujeloud sur la place du village.

En juillet 2008, les Master Musicians of Joujouka ont fêté le 40ème anniversaire de la visite de Brian Jones dans leur village logé au sein des montagnes du Rif au nord du Maroc. Au jour près, ce festival fêtait le 40ème anniversaire de l’enregistrement du LP légendaire Brian Jones Presents the Pipes of Pan à Joujouka (Rolling Stones Records 1971). Le festival a regroupé les familles des anciens Masters maintenant disparus et un groupe de visiteurs venus de l’étranger, dont de nombreux amis du fondateur des Rolling Stones, Brian Jones.



Pour sa seconde édition en 2009, le festival a été déplacé au mois de juin, car la température au mois du juillet peut aisément dépasser les 40°C. Son succès a alors fait l’objet d’un article publié dans le Wire Magazine du mois d’octobre 2009.


Les festivaliers participeront à la vie au village, hébergés par les musiciens et leurs familles au sein de leur village isolé. Les Masters joueront lors de nombreuses sessions improvisées autour de leur madrassa/école. La fête du rituel de Boujeloud sur la place du village sera le point culminant du festival.



Les billets donnant accès au festival sont strictement limités dû aux possibilités d’hébergement par les familles du village. Les organisateurs du festival accueilleront les festivaliers dans la ville la plus proche, Ksar El Kebir, les conduiront au village, puis les raccompagneront à la gare après le festival. Les festivaliers seront reçus en pension complète. Les repas seront préparés de manière traditionnelle par les villageois et seront constitués de nourriture locale. Le village de Joujouka est une communauté agricole qui est aussi connue pour ses merveilleuses olives et son huile d’olive.



Vous pouvez réserver dès à présent :



Pour trois jours (8, 10 et 11 juin) : 325 €.



Les organisateurs accueilleront les festivaliers à la gare de El Ksar El Kebir à Ksar El Kebir le 8 juin, les conduiront jusqu’à Joujouka et les raccompagneront à la gare après le festival. Horaires : www.oncf.ma



Pension complète : 8 juin, déjeuner et dîner

Petit-déjeuner, déjeuner et festin traditionnel marocain le samedi 9 juin

Petit-déjeuner , puis déjeuner et dîner le dimanche 11 juin
Petit-déjeuner 12 juin 

Réservez dès maintenant ici : Master Musicians of Joujouka Web Site, ou voir plus bas.

Pour un paiement par virement, contactez les organisateurs à l’adresse suivante : joujouka@gmail.com

Le nombre de places est limité à 50.

Pour toute question, contactez : joujouka@gmail.com

Verser  un dépôt €50 ou payer 330 pour le festival

Master Musicans of Joujouka Festival 8-10 June 2012

3 day ticket €330.00 EUR deposit €50.00 EUR Balance minus 50 euro deposit €280.00 EUR

 Libertation Par DAVID BORNSTEIN Envoyé spécial au Maroc 7 juin 2010

World. Ce petit bled perdu dans le Rif marocain a abrité son troisième festival de musique soufie, qui s’est achevé hier. Entre transe panique, kif et mythologie hippie.
Réagir
Par DAVID BORNSTEIN
Joujouka, le club des soufis stones http://www.liberation.fr/culture/0101639892-joujouka-le-club-des-soufis-stones

Rif et rock’n’roll Découvert dans les années 50, Joujouka voit par la suite défiler les plus grands noms.
http://www.liberation.fr/culture/0101639893-rif-et-rock-n-roll

Master Musicians of Joujouka Mali mal M'Halmaz Everyone is together by MasterMusiciansofJoujouka



Preview of film on Brian Jones 40th Anniversary Festival dir. Daragh McCarthy.

Master Musicians of Joujouka Festival 8-10 June 2012 full booking now available here

Boujeloud in the flames, photo by Robert Hampson master Musicians of Joujouka Festival 2010

The Master Musicians of Joujouka Festival 2012 takes place from 8-10 June 2011.  En Francais ICI
The summer festival began in 2008 with the Master Musicians Brian Jones 40th Anniversary Festival and has continued every year since then.     
The festival is a true micro festival rather than a rock festival.  

The village square with the sanctuary of Sufi saint Sidi Ahmed Shiech on left Lars Movin 2010

The ideology behind the festival  is to allow a very small group of people the opportunity to hang out and live in the village for a few days with the Master Musicians as their hosts.   Numbers are therefore strictly limited in order to ensure that people have a unique and personal experience in the village and with their individual and collective hosts The Master Musicians of Joujouka. There will be some people on hand who have long connections with the village who speak French, Arabic and English and any questions you have while in the village can be addressed as your comfort and enjoyment is key to the continued success of this truly unique experience.
Naturally the highlight of the festival is the three days of music and the intimate access to the Masters and their hospitality.

Above Slide show from 2011 Festival "Joujouka Some Stones" by Hermann Vanaerschot click to view

Press from recent years Click on title to go to article

Mark Paytress in Mojo 2008 

Healing Crazy Minds: Master Musicians Of Joujouka & Morocco's Boujeloud Festival by Richie Troughton 2010 The Quietus 2010

Joujouka, le club des soufis stones by David Bornstein, Liberation 2010 (French)

Rif Rock'n'Roll David Bornstein 2010(French)

Mark Paytress Take me into insanity The Guardian 2009

The Wire 2009 free MP3 download
The Wire 2009 Video download from Brian Jones 40th Anniversary festival

Arrangements

You will be  collected  at EL Ksar El Kebir  train station (see  www.oncf.ma for trian times from all Moroccan cities) on June 8th by prior  arrangement with the festival. Having been collected at the train  station you  will be transported to the village.You will be returned to Ksar El Kebir to meet your connections after the Festival. Due to the high demand for 2012 only  3 day tickets are available. If you wish to come for one or two days please email joujouka@gmail.com for rates and availability.

The ticket price includes your meals, bottled water, tea, coffees, accommodation and forward and return  transport to the village from Ksar El Kebir  in order to meet your connections .
The Master Musicians will perform each day both informally and with full performances each night. Guests stay with the Master Musicians of Joujouka in their homes.

Food

 Lunch 2010 photo by Joachim Montessuis

The food is excellent. We can cater for vegetarians easily and vegans with a far bit of hassle but we do so every year.
The festival (ie The Master Musicians and the villagers) provide all  meals. Food is sourced locally.
Friday 8th June  lunch and dinner.
Saturday 9th June  Breakfast lunch and dinner
10th  Breakfast,  lunch and dinner.
11th. Breakfast and transport to Ksar El Kebir to meet your train or onward connections.

 Figs fresh from the trees in Joujouka 2010 photo Tomas McGrail White

The festival is restricted in numbers of guests to ensure you have a very chilled out and personal experience of life in the village.

We provide your bottled water plus tea, coffee. Alcohol is prohibited in the village!!

Accommodation

The House where Brian Jones stayed in 1968 with well and fig trees by Manno Franco 2009

You will accommodated with the family of one of the Master Musicians.

Breakfast is served in the house you stay in and you will be accommodated in a room to yourself or with your friends or partner.  Let us know your desired accommodation arrangements when you are contacted after your booking or email before hand if you have any queries. You will not be sharing a room with strangers. 

All your  personal  arrangements will be worked out by email or phone with you before you arrive.

During the day the Master Musicians play in an informal way and   most people hang out as they please at their HQ/house / school while each night the Master Musicians of Joujouka perform  their ritual music.

Inside the courtyard of the  home of Master Musician Abdelslam Errtoubi Photo Lars Movin 2010

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Magara  cave of Boujeloud situated about 1km from the village by Lars Movin b 2010

The easiest  airport to come from if you are only coming to Morocco for the festival is Tanger with train connections from Tanger Ville ( Taxi costs 100 MAD).
 However  Fez and Casablanca are 4 hours train journey from El Ksar El Kebir (Marrakesh is 8 hours) so any airport is good except Agadir which has no direct train connections.


This year we are facilitating installment payments of 50.You can use the same button to pay a single deposit that will ensure you a reserved place at the festival subject to balance being paid. If you require assistance or further information email joujouka@gmail.com


Using the paypal button below you can pay for a full ticket for the 3 day event at €330 and €50 deposit or if you have paid a deposit and wish to pay the balance of €280.
Full Balance is payable by 1 March 2012 unless you have made a prior arrangemnet with festival by emailing joujouka@gmail.com Deposit will forfeited on cancellation. However if you pay in full before 1 March and cancel on or before 1 March the balance above 50 euros will be returned to you within 7 days.

Master Musicans of Joujouka Festival 8-10 June 2012

3 day ticket €330.00 EUR deposit €50.00 EUR Balance minus 50 euro deposit €280.00 EUR

Master Musicians of Joujouka Mali mal M'Halmaz Everyone is together by MasterMusiciansofJoujouka


Master Musicians of Joujouka Brain Jones 40th Anniversary Festival 2008

Master Musicians of Joujouka and Dj /rupture vs. Maga Bo Beyond Digital Mix Cassette only Limited Edition

Dreamachine / Beyond Digital Mix

PALM WINE / DJ RUPTURE VS. MAGA BO

C60 Tape - limited edition 350 copies

Official release date: november 18th 2011

Side A: Palm Wine Dreamachine mix

Side B: Dj /rupture vs. Maga Bo Beyond Digital Mix

Release Date 19 November 2011

Palm Wine is a blog run by Simone Bertuzzi started at the end of 2009. It is described as "a possible and distant look at the post-global movement of sounds and imageries, even dazed by alcohol vapours. For this reason, it can take unexpected routes backward and forward, travels in the outer space and depicts a magic conception of distance between past, present and the next world."

"Dreamachine / Beyond Digital Mix" is a C60 tape released by Palm Wine after a trip to Morocco attending at the Master Musicians of Joujouka Brian Jones Festival 2009 (www.joujouka.net). The side A contains Dreamachine - a 30 min mix by Palm Wine made out of field recordings collected during the three days festival and in Tangier souk. The side B is an exclusive mix done by Dj /rupture and Maga Bo, part of their project Beyond Digital - Morocco (www.beyond-digital.org), which combines different musical styles: from autotuned moroccan chaabi and traditional Andes song to mexican tribal guarachero, and so on; the mix include also an unreleased track by Maga Bo featuring K-Libre.

The tape is a limited edition of 350 hand numbered copies. http://palm-wine.blogspot.com/p/c60-tape-palm-wine-dreamachine-dj.html

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Price incl. shipping

Europe €10,00 EUR United States/South America/Africa €12,00 EUR

Jane's Addiction End to the Lies. Master Musicians of Joujouka laden mix

Jane's Addiction End to the Lies. This is the Master Musicians of Joujouka laden mix
End to the Lies

or soundcloud
End To The Lies by MelissaMondello

Official Mpeg 4 Version
http://soundcloud.com/prospectpkmusiclicensing/janes-addiction-end-to-the

Joujouka Interzone premiere at F.A.N. Casablanca

Joujouka Interzone photos Frank Rynne

The premiere performance of Joujouka Interzone was a great success. The,  mainly teenage, audience were treated to a blasting performance by Hamburg sound and visual artists Incite followed by Joujouka Interzone, which is an aural and visual collaboration between the Master Musicians of Joujouka, Joachim Montessuis and Frank Rynne. The concept places a historical context on the flicker experiments of Brion Gysin and Ian Sommerville which culminated in the Dreamachine as well as the other gift Gysin gave to 20th centuary art "The Cut-Up Method" which Gysin gifted to William Burroughs and contextualizes the place in that history of  the alpha wave frequency and repetition of The Master Musicians of Joujouka trance music.

 The visual mixing of archival footage and images of  William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Dreamachines, Mohamed Hamri, Brian Jones,  The Master Musicians of Joujouka and Boujeloud  as well as recent footage was based on  flicker seamlessly linking with the Master Musician's  live performance.

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Joujouka Interzone began with the Masters entering the theater from behind the audience playing wildly  as they strolled to their positions on stage. The 1 hour and 20 min performance built to a crescendo of sound and visuals which replicated the intensity of a Dreamachine high with a full performance of the Boujeloud suite of music. As has been traditional in the village since the early 1970s the song Brian Jones Joujouka very Stoned heralded  boys dancing as  Aisha Kandishas on stage.  Boujeloud danced in flicker with Gysin and Burroughs on screen,  while Boujeloud in person danced wildly on stage and through the theater  to the cheers of the audience. The two young dancers from Joujouka were stars in their roles as Crazy Aisha Kandisha.

The Master Musicans of Joujouka, Joachim Montessuis and Frank Rynne would like to thank all the staff at Centre Cultural Moulay Rachid for their excellent professionalism which ensured great sound and vision.

The show was part of the F.A.N. festival and we would like to also thank all the organisers for ensuring that the production was to the highest international standards especially the festival director  Majid Seddati, and Fatima, Ali and Mohamed who made the day a pleasure. Merci, Thank you, Sukran Besef.

Over the next few days we will be uploading video and sound from the performance but in the meantime here are a few random stills from the night taken by Frank on Joachim's new iphone from the visual mixing station at the side of the stage.

Joujouka Interzone premiere Casablanca 29 Oct 2011 trailer

Joujouka Interzone is a collaboration between Master Musicians of Joujouka, French sound and visual artist Joachim Montessuis and Frank Rynne. Montessuis and Rynne will live mix and project a HD digital onslaught utilizing archival and specially commissioned material while The Master Musicians of Joujouka will provide an aural onslaught that maintains their completely natural sound with no additions.
The Joujouka Interzone premiere will be the  Grand Finale of the Casablanca International Digital Arts Festival/F.A.N. 29 Oct 2011 at Complexe Moulay Rachid, Casablanca, Morocco. Through 2012 there will be further performances in Morocco and Europe.

As Joujouka Interzone features live performances by the Master Musicians of Joujouka with live  mixing of visual it is  ensuring that each show will be unique.

This trailer features the Master Musicians of Joujouka recorded live in their village at the Brian Jones 40th Anniversary Festival 29th July 2008. Recorded by David Slevin, production supervisor Frank Rynne. The full recording of the festival is due for release in 2012.

Master Musicians of Joujouka perform at International Digital Arts Festival Casablanca 29 October 2011

Joachim Montessuis in performance

Due to increased demand The Master Musicians of Joujouka event "Joujouka Interzone" at the International Digital Arts Festival, Casablanca, Morocco,  has been moved to the larger space the  Complexe My Rachi. The event will begin at 7pm with Hamburg digital artists Incite - Kera Nagel and André Aspelmeie. The premier of Joujouka Interzone will launch at 8pm. French sound and visual artist Joachim Montessuis in collaboration with Frank Rynne and The Masters will project a HD digital onslaught utilizing archival and specially commissioned material while Glastonbury Festival headliners The Master Musicians of Joujouka will provide an onslaught....exciting times and an exciting event.....for more info email Joujouka@gmail.com


2012 will see Joujouka Interzone, an evolving artistic collaboration, come to further venues both in Morocco and to Europe. The Master are also booking and being booked  for  their own  shows at the most exciting and cool venues and festivals for Summer 2012 for booking info and to join the mailing list email joujouka@gmail.com 

Master Musicians of Joujouka sign Digital Distribution Deal

Master Musicians of Joujouka in 1968 

The Master Musicians of Joujouka are pleased to  announce that they have signed a global digital distribution deal with Believe. As well as back catalog items such as Joujouka Black Eyes which includes the song Brian Jones Joujouka Very Stoned, Boujeloud, and Sufi Moroccan Trance II, fans can be sure that there are exiting new projects in the pipeline. Stay tuned for more news.

Jane's Addiction new Lp featuring The Master Musicians of Joujouka out 18 October

The Master Musicians of Joujouka are proud to announce that The Great Escape Artist by Jane's Addiction will be available on 18 October from Capitol Records. According to Capitol and  Virgin Label Group president Dan McCarroll  "Everyone pushed to make it great-good wasn't good enough," he says. "They knew as a band and as a voice in history [that] they had to make a record that [made] people say, 'This is amazing.' It was a talked-about, conscious effort to deliver a record that was really special.".

Billboard magazine highlights the Master Musicians of Joujouka in their first reference to the group in 15 years. Thank you Jane's Addiction and all at Capitol/Virgin and  Prospect Park who have made this happen. 

"The Great Escape Artist" also features the Master Musicians of Joujouka, who worked with the Rolling Stones' Brian Jones in the '60s, on the psychedelic guitar-shredder "End to the Lies." Elsewhere, "Broken People" packs a mellower, stadium-sized refrain, and Farrell declares his allegiance to life on the street on the gritty, drum-heavy "Underground."

http://www.billboard.com/news/jane-s-addiction-go-for-something-great-1005379492.story#/news/jane-s-addiction-go-for-something-great-1005379492.story


Rumours of a Jane's Addoction tour with Smashing Pumpkins abound and if so the Masters say "we want in".....
Ahmed Attar leader of the Masters said " Billy came to stay with us in 2006 for his birthday  he had a toothache and I showed him the pliers that I use to pull teeth when people in the village have a toothache  but he decided not to accept my work as the village dentist...so we must just work on music"

For the Jane's Addiction recordings the Master contributed sonic tones that they matched to Dave Navarro's guitar. Rich Costey's production on End to the Lies utilises The Master Musicians in a super intelligent merging of sonic tone using the Masters elongated noteS  to   enhance and underpin  the guitar rather than attempting to force issues. Though Master Musicians of Joujouka music defied Ornette Coleman in 1973, Jane's Addiction have managed  to use the Masters tones in a perfect balance with their own sound and needs.


Jane's Addiction Official Site Go to home page to hear End to the Lies http://janesaddiction.com/news/30571

Ira Cohen's Gnaoua Magazine online

 See a PDF of Ira Cohen's Gnaoua magazine.

http://www.awickedeyeful.com/blog/?p=94

The magazine featured amongst others, Brion Gysin, William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg. Gysin's article was later incorporated by Brian Jones into the booklet that accompanied the 1971 release of the album he recorded and produced by the Master Musicians of Joujouka: "Brian Jones presents the Pipes of Pan at Joujouka", Rolling Stones Records, October 1971.

A controversial 1995 reissue CD featured a version of Brion Gysin's text edited to remove  all mention of Mohamed Hamri who had introduced the Beats and Bran Jones to the music of Joujouka/Jajouka.  Brion Gysin died nine years before his words were edited for that commercial release.

Brion Gysin's words are below restored to the full original text. You can download a pdf of the original Brian Jones sleeve and booklet from www.­greylodge.­org/­occultreview/­glor_015/­media/­Joujouka/­joujouka_booklet­.­pdf

The painting of Brian Jones and the Master Musicians on the original LP is by Hamri who introduced Gysin and Burroughs to the Sufi trance masters and also brought Brian Jones to Joujouka on three occasions in 1967 and 1968.

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Brion Gysin painting of Boujeloud, 1958

MAGIC calls itself The Other Method for controlling matter and knowing space. In Morocco, magic is practised more assiduously than hygiene though, indeed, ecstatic dancing to music of the brotherhoods may be called a form of psychic hygiene. You know your own music when you hear it one day.You fall into line and dance until you pay the piper.

My own music turned out to be the wild flutes of the hill tribe, Ahl Serif whom I met through the Moroccan painter, Hamri. He turned me on to the Moorish fleshpots, the Magic and the misery of the Moors. The secret of his mother's tribe, guarded even from themselves, was that they were still performing the Rites of Pan under their ragged cloak of Islam.

Westermark, in his book on pagan survivals in Morocco forty years ago, recognized their patron: Bou Jeloud, the Father of Skins, to be Pan the little goat god with his pipes. An account of their dances led him to conclude they must be celebrating the Roman Lupercalia which once occurred in the first two weeks of February, but attached itself to the principal Moslem feast when the Arab invaders turned the calendar back to the lunar year. Westermark never saw the dances and believed they no longer took place. Pan may soon stop dancing in the Moroccan hills but I first saw him there in 1950. Later I ran several times in the panic of the Lupercalia. It is the "holy chase" of which Julius Caesar speaks in Act 1, Scene 2 of Shakespeare's play: "Forget not, in your haste, Antonius, to touch Calpurnia; for our elders say the barren, touched in this holy chase, shake off their sterile curse." Marc Antony should be wearing a fresh, foul-smelling goatskin. "I saw Marc Antony offer him a crown; yet 'twas not a crown neither, 'twas one of those coronets. .."

Bou Jeloud wears a yokel's big, floppy straw hat, bound round his face with a fillet of ivy. ". . . it was mere foolery; I did not mark it." Elizabethan "Morris" dances were Moorish .

Pan, Bou Jeloud, the Father of Skins, dances through eight moonlit nights in his hill village, Joujouka, to the wailing of his hundred Master Musicians. Down in the towns, far away by the seaside, you can hear the wild whimper of his oboe-like raïtas; a faint breath of panic borne on the wind. Below the rough palisade of giant blue cactus surrounding the village on its hilltop, the music flows in streams to nourish and fructify the terraced fields below.

Inside the village the thatched houses crouch low in their gardens to hide the deep cactus-lined lanes. You come through their maze to the broad village green where the pipers are piping; fifty raïtas banked against a crumbling wall below sheet lightning to shatter the air. Fifty wild flutes blow up a storm in front of them, while a platoon of small boys in long belted white robes and brown wool turbans drums like young thunder. All the villagers, dressed in best white, swirl in great circles and coils around one wildman in skins.

Bou Jeloud leaps high in the air on the music, races after the women again and again, lashing at them fiercely with his flails. "Forget not in your speed, Antonius, to touch Calpurnia . . ." He is wild. He is mad. Sowing panic. Lashing at anyone; striking real terror into the crowd. Women scatter like white marabout birds all aflutter and settle on a little hillock for safety, all huddled in one quivering lump. They throw back their heads to the moon and scream with throats open to the gullet, lolling their tongues around their empty heads like the clapper in a bell.

Every mouth is wide open, frozen into an O. Head back and hot narrow eyes brimming with dangerous baby. Bou Jeloud is after you. Running. Over-run, Laughter and someone is crying. Wild dogs at your heels. Swirling around in one ring-a-rosy, around and around and around. Go! Forever! Stop! Never! More and No More and No! More! Pipes crack in your head. Ears popped away at barrier sound and you deaf. Or dead! Swirling around in cold moonlight, surrounded by wild men or ghosts. Bou Jeloud is on you, butting you, beating you, taking you, leaving you. Gone! The great wind drops out of your head and you hear the heavenly music again. You feel sorry and loving and tender to that poor animal whimpering, grizzling, laughing and sobbing there beside you like somebody out of ether .Who is that? That is you.

Who is Bou Jeloud? Who is he? The shivering boy who was chosen to be stripped naked in a cave and sewn into the bloody warm skins and masked with an old straw hat tied over his face, HE is Bou Jeloud when he dances and runs. Not Ali, not Mohamed, then he is Bou Jeloud. He will be somewhat taboo in his village the rest of his life. When he dances alone, his musicians blow a sound like the earth sloughing its skin. He is the Father of Fear. He is, too, the Father of Flocks. The good shepherd works for him. When the goats, gently grazing, brusquely frisk and skitter away, he is counting his flock. When you shiver like someone just walked on your grave—that's him: that's Pan, the Father of Skins. Have you jumped out of your skin lately? I've got you under my skin.

Up there, in Joujouka. you sleep all day—if the flies let you. Breakfast is goat-cheese and honey on gold bread from the outdoor oven. Musicians loll about sipping mint tea, their kif pipes and flutes. They never work in their lives so they lie about easy. The last priests of Pan cop a tithe on the crops in the lush valley below. Blue kif smoke drops in veils from Joujouka at nightfall. The music picks up like a current turned on. The children are singing, "Ha, Bou Jeloud! Bou Jeloud the butcher met Aisha Homolka, Ha, Bou Jeloud!"

On the third night he meets Aisha Homolka who drifts around after dark, cool and casual, near springs and running water. She unveils her beautiful blue-glittering face and breasts and coos. And he who stammers out an answer is lost. He is lost unless he touches the blade of his knife or, better still, plucks it out and plunges it into the grcund between her goatish legs and forked hooves. Then Aisha Homolka, Aisha Kandisha, alias Asherat, Astarte, Diana in the Leaves Greene, Blest Virgin Miriam bar Levy, the White Goddess, in short, will be his. She must be a heavy Stone Age matriarch whose power he cuts off with his Iron Age knife-magic.

The music grooves into hysteria, fear and fornication. A ball of laughter and tears in the throat gristle. Tickle of panic between the legs. Gripe of slap-stick cuts loose in the bowels. The Three Hadji. Man with Monkey. More characters coming on stage. The Hadji joggle around under their crowns like Three Wise Kings. Monkey Man comes on hugely pregnant with a live boy in his baggy pants. Monkey Man goes into birth pangs and the Hadji deliver him of a naked boy with an umbilical halter around his neck. Man leads Monkey around, beating him and screwing him for hours to the music. Monkey jumps on Man's back and screws him to the music for hours. Pipers pipe higher into the air and panic screams off like the wind intothe woods of silverolive and black oak, on into the Rif mountains swimming up under the moonlight.
BRION GYSIN. Copyright 1964 Brion Gysin.

Special thanks to Ira Cohen http://www.magic.be/Akashic/Ira.html

Ira Cohen obituary by Frank Rynne, The Guardian,  (online 13 May 2011, print 14 May 2011) http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/may/13/ira-cohen-obituary
Ira Cohen Sldieshow The Guardian online 13 May 2011 http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2011/may/13/ira-cohen-photography-in-pictures?intcmp=239

Master Musicians of Joujouka Glastonbury 2011 photos

Boujeloud dances! Master Musicians of Joujouka  Boujeloud Ritual,  Sunday 26 and Monday 27 June, Glastonbury 2011.

Some Photos from Glastonbury 2011 of Master Musicians of Joujouka from The Pyramid Stage to the wilds of Glastonbury 24-27 June 2011

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Master Musicians of Joujouka play to 200,00 people
cut across all the microphones on The Park stage from the top of the hill

Spreading the blessing of Sidi Ahmed to 200,000 people

With Tony Coleman, drummer, The B.B. King band, Master Musiicans of Joujouka , Glastonbury 2011.

Master Musicians of Joujouka open Glastonbury 2011 on the Pyramid Stage videos

Master Musicians of Joujouka open Glastonbury 2011 on the Pyramid Stage. Video 1 ends with the classic Brian Jones Joujoujka Very Stoned , part 2 features part of the Boujeloud Rite which writers have likened to the Rites of Pan. The Masters finished their set with a Sufi prayer blessing all the festival goers and the festival organisers and all the people of the world in troubled times.
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Master Musicans of Joujouka at Glastonbury 2011 photos

 Dancing to the Master Musicians of Joujouka Sunday 26 -Monday 27 June Glastonbury Festival 2011

 Opening the main Pyramid stage on Friday 24 June

 
Master Musicians of Joujouka open the  Pyramid stage  at Glastonbury 2011

For more images see
http://www.clashmusic.com/photos/glastonbury-2011-the-master-musicians-of-joujouka

You can  follow The Master Musicians of Joujouka's adventures after they left the leather couches and gourmet buffets of the Pyramid stage behind and got down at Glastonbury on our Facebook page linked below

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.214037631967267.47687.105892372781794

Master Musicians Of Joujouka live in Joujouka 29 May 2011

Master Musicians of Joujouka live at Glastonbury Pyramid Stage videos

Master Musicians of Joujouka open The Glastonbury Festival main Pyramid Satge Friday 24 June.


Part 1

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL_Cy4xjyWU&feature=related

Master Musicians of Joujouka Festival 2012, Joujouka, Morocco booking now limited to 50 places

Master Musicians of Joujouka Festival 8-10 June 2012

Guest dancing at Master Musicians of Joujouka Festival 2011 Photo by Herman Vanaerschot

Photo essay by Herman Vanaerschot of Master Musicians
of Joujouka Festival and Morocco June 2011

Thanks to all those who made the 2011 Master Musicians of Joujouka Festival a success. This week the Master Musicians head to Glastonbury to play for 3 days. However if you cant catch us there you can place a deposit for our 2012 festival in Joujouka, Morocco.
The Festival will take place from 8-10 June.
Places strictly limited to 50 people.
Three day ticket 330 Euro
2 day 275 Euro
All food, accommodation and pick up and return  to and from the nearest city Ksar El Kebir.
 
To ensure your place pay a deposit of 50 Euros using the paypal button below
For information email joujouka@gmail.com

All photos of 2011 Master Musicians of Joujouka Festival by Hermann Vanaerschot

Master Musicians of Joujouka Festival 2011 Thank you to all who made it a special weekend

The Master Musicians of Joujouka would like to thank all those who came to this year's festival.
This year was  a specially warm and peace filled festival and the Master Musicians send their blessings and best wishes to all their guests who made it so.
Photos, videos and sound recordings to be posted soon.

Master Musicians Of Joujouka Festival 2011 contact phone number

For guests or prospective guests  coming to the Master Musicians of Joujouka Festival June 10-12, 2011 the contact phone number is 0677032188 from inside  Morocco  or from outside Morocco 00 212 677032188. The Master Musicians are delighted to welcome their guests to the village. For late booking please phone as all online booking is now suspended.

Master Musicians headline at Glastonbury poster full line up

Master Musicians of Joujouka open Glastonbury Festival 2011 on Pyramid stage

Boujeloud dances in Joujoukaat the Brian Jones 40th Anniversary Festival photo Jill Furmanovsky www.rockarchive.com

Master Musicians of Joujouka are proud to announce that the group  will open the Glastonbury Festival 2011. We are honoured to be accorded this privilege and play the Pyramid stage on Friday 24 June, later that day the stage will host amongst others Wu Tang Clan, Morrisey, B.B. King, Biffy Clyro and U2.

The musicians will remain at Glastonbury for the duration of the festival playing at our own area in The Park area. These performances will be un-amplified ritual trance and will allow for the musicians to showcase their music in a  natural way and allow attendees at the festival to gain a unique and intimate experience with the Master Musicians playing just as they do in their native village in the North of Morocco.

This will mark a return to Glastonbury for some of the Master Musicians after 31 years, as they were hosted on the Eavis family farm in 1980 during a year when there was no festival. This marked   the beginning of their  first ever tour in 1980.

For press inquiries email Frank joujouka@gmail.com

For the full festival line up see The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/apr/14/glastonbury-2011-full-lineup

and visit the Glastonbury festival website for news and updates  http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/

In the studio with Jane's Addiction recording and mixing End to the Lies with Master Musicians of Joujouka and free download

The Inside the Lies video directed by Todd Newmann shows Jane's Addiction ( Perry Farrell, guitarist Dave Navarro,  and drummer Stephen Perkins) working in the studio with producer Rich Costey (MUSE, FRANZ FERDINAND, INTERPOL), and with TV ON THE RADIO's Dave Sitek on bass while  recording and mixing the End to the Lies track for their forthcoming album "THE GREAT ESCAPE ARTIST," due August 2011 from Capitol Records.

The Master Musicians of Joujouka parts were recorded in Joujouka Morocco by their manager and sometimes producer specifically for Jane's Addiction .

More on the actual recording sessions soon but here are some pics from our end. Download End to the Lies free by joining Jane's Addiction mailing list
http://janesaddiction.com/news/29971

after putting in your email the next page will provide your download link.

Master Musicians of Joujouka Festival in the village runs 10-12 June , email joujouka@gmail.cvom for info or book on www.joujouka.net

 Cladding the main room at the Master Musicians Madrass  with tents and carpets for recording the rhiatas (pic Frank Rynne)

 Between takes the rhiata players resting. Having picked up on Dave Navarro's tuning on the guitar tracks some of the takes were 30 min drones where the Master's used their circular breathing techniques to produce multi-layered oscillating notes. Pic Frank Rynne

Pre recording on the second day (March 24 2011) everyone 

relaxing outside the Madrassa as the sun set. Pic Frank Rynne

Spring flowers (pic Frank Rynne )

Tami

 Ahmed Talha Master Musician  drummer (Pic Frank Rynne)

 Chilling between takes

Jane's Addiction Collaboration with Master Musicians of Joujouka for "End to the Lies"

From the Official Jane's Addiction Website 
You can download  the first offering from the forthcoming Jane's Addiction album by signing up to their mailing list http://goo.gl/cAGZO

Collaboration with Master Musicians of Joujouka

JANE’S ADDICTION
COLLABORATE WITH THE MASTER MUSICIANS OF JOUJOUKA
FOR THE BAND’S NEW TRACK “END TO THE LIES”
Photo: The Master Musicians of Joujouka


As always, JANE’S ADDICTION—singer Perry Farrell, guitarist Dave Navarro and drummer Stephen Perkins--keeps things interesting. 

The exotic sounds on “End To The Lies”—the band’s newly issued (April 7) free downloadable track from the band’s upcoming first studio album in eight years on Capitol Records, THE GREAT ESCAPE ARTIST—are the unique contribution of the legendary The Master Musicians of Joujouka.  The free download of "End To The Lies" is available via http://goo.gl/cAGZO

Hailing from the village of Jajouka near Ksar-el-Kebir in the Ahl Srif mountain range of the southern Rif Mountains in northern Morocco, they are Sufi trance musicians who use reed, pipe and percussion to create drones and complex rhythms unique to Joujouka.  The musicians are  known for their connections with the Beat Generation and Rolling Stones founder Brian Jones, who recorded them in 1968 for an album that was released in 1971, Brian Jones Presents the Pipes of Pan at Joujouka.

"We wanted to add a sense of ancient ritual and some depth beyond normal instrumentation, getting off the typical path that rock bands use, etc,” says Perry Farrell.  “And we wanted the music to cast a spell on the ‘lies.’”

For THE GREAT ESCAPE ARTIST, JANE'S ADDICTION have been working in Los Angeles with producer Rich Costey (Muse, Franz Ferdinand, Interpol), with TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek on the team.  Costey says that The Master Musicians of Joujouka’s parts actually weren’t recorded with the band or in a studio. “It was all recorded in the Master Musicians Madrassa (school house) which is out in the village of Joujouka near Morocco where they live. The drums were recorded in the kitchen and the rhiatas in the main room of the house."

Farrell adds: "Lots of sounds were recorded with them so you may hear more of them on the record. You'll have to wait and see."

Info on the Master Musicians of Joujouka recording with Jane’s Addiction:

Master Musicians of Joujouka recorded in Joujouka, Morocco by Frank Rynne.
Arranged by Frank Rynne and Ahmed Attar

6 musicians playing the Tibel:

Ahmed El Attar
Mustapha El Attar
El Khalil Radi
Jamal El Bakar
Abdeslam Boukhzar
Ahmed Talha


8 musicians played Rhiata:

Abdeslam Rrtoubi
Abdellah Ziyat
El Mahi Elmojahed
Abdelkhalak Talhi
Ali Ezouglali
El Touhami Talha
Mohamed El Attar
Mohamed Mokhchan
Mohamed El Hatmi who danced  Boujeloud

Background links:
Master Musicians of Joujouka website www.joujouka.com Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Master-Musicians-of-Joujouka/105892372781794
Brian Jones festival Blog http://brianjonesjoujoukafestival.blogspot.com


The Master Musicians Festival which runs for 10-12 June is still booking places strictly limited to 50 people book now or place a deposit on link below
http://brianjonesjoujoukafestival.blogspot.com/2011/04/book-now-for-master-musicians-of_12.html

Book now for Master Musicians of Joujouka Festival 10-12 June 2011

Boujeloud in the flames, photo by Robert Hampson master Musicians of Joujouka Festival 2010

The Master Musicians of Joujouka Festival 2011 takes place from 10-12 June 2011.
The summer festival began in 2008 with the Master Musicians Brian Jones 40th Anniversary Festival and has continued every year since then.
The festival is a true micro festival rather than a rock festival.     En Francais click ici

The village square with the sanctuary of Sufi saint Sidi Ahmed Shiech on left Lars Movin 2010

The ideology behind the festival  is to allow a very small group of people the opportunity to hang out and live in the village for a few days with the Master Musicians as their hosts.   Numbers are therefore strictly limited in order to ensure that people have a unique and personal experience in the village and with their individual and collective hosts The Master Musicians of Joujouka. There will be some people on hand who have long connections with the village who speak French, Arabic and English and any questions you have while in the village can be addressed as your comfort and enjoyment is key to the continued success of this truly unique experience.
Naturally the highlight of the festival is the three days of music and the intimate access to the Masters and their hospitality.

Press from recent years Click on title to go to article

Mark Paytress in Mojo 2008 

Healing Crazy Minds: Master Musicians Of Joujouka & Morocco's Boujeloud Festival by Richie Troughton 2010 The Quietus 2010

Joujouka, le club des soufis stones by David Bornstein, Liberation 2010 (French)

Rif Rock'n'Roll David Bornstein 2010(French)

Mark Paytress Take me into insanity The Guardian 2009

The Wire 2009 free MP3 download
The Wire 2009 Video download from Brian Jones 40th Anniversary festival

Arrangements

You will be  collected  at Ksar El Kebir train station (called Moulay El Mehdi see www.oncf.ma for trian times from all Moroccan cities) on June 10th by prior  arrangement with us. Having been collected at the train  station you  will be transported to the village.You will be returned to Ksar El Kebir to meet your connections after the Festival. 2 and 3 day tickets are available.

The ticket price includes your meals, bottled water, tea, coffees, accommodation and forward and return  transport to the village from Ksar El Kebir  in order to meet your connections .
The Master Musicians will perform each day both informally and with full performances each night. Guests stay with the Master Musicians of Joujouka in their homes.

Food

 Lunch 2010 photo by Joachim Montessuis

The food is excellent. We can cater for vegetarians easily and vegans with a far bit of hassle but we do so every year.
The festival (ie The Master Musicians and the villagers) provide all  meals. Food is sourced locally.
Friday 10th June  lunch and dinner.
Saturday 11th June  Breakfast lunch and dinner
12th  Breakfast ( for two day ticket holders), plus lunch and dinner for three day ticket holder
13th. Breakfast and transport to Ksar El Kebir to meet your train or onward connections.

 Figs fresh from the trees in Joujouka 2010 photo Tomas McGrail White

The festival is restricted in numbers of guests to ensure you have a very chilled out and personal experience of life in the village.

On 12th (2 day ticket) or 13th (3 day) you will also be transported by to Ksar El Kebir by arrangement to meet your connections. (depending o ticket type ie 2 -3 day
We provide your bottled water plus tea, coffee.

Accommodation

The House where Brian Jones stayed in 1968 with well and fig trees by Manno Franco 2009

You will accommodated with the family of one of the Master Musicians.

Breakfast is served in the house you stay in and you will be accommodated in a room to yourself or with your friends or partner.  Let us know your desired accommodation arrangements when you are contacted after your booking or email before hand if you have any queries. You will not be sharing a room with strangers. 

All details will be worked out by email with you before you arrive.

During the day the Master Musicians play in an informal way and   most people hang out as they please at their HQ/house / school while each night the Master Musicians of Joujouka perform  their ritual music.

Inside the courtyard of the  home of Master Musician Abdelslam Errtoubi Photo Lars Movin 2010

2 day ticket provides accommodation Friday 10th and Saturday 11th.
3 day ticket provides 3 nights accommodation Friday 10 , Saturday 11 and Sunday 12th.

Magara  cave of Boujeloud situated about 1km from the village by Lars Movin b 2010

The easiest  airport to come from if you are only coming to Morocco for the festival is Tanger with train connections from Tanger Ville ( Taxi costs 100 MAD).
 However  Fez and Casablanca are 4-5 hours train journey from Ksar El Kebir (Marrakesh is 8 hours) so any airport is good except Agadir which has no direct train connections.


This year we are facilitating installment payments of €50.You can use the same button to pay a single deposit that will ensure you a reserved place at the festival subject to balance being paid. If you require assistance or further information email joujouka@gmail.com


On line booking has ended for last minute places email  joujouka@gmail.com for details.