- Gysin Dreamachine launch Sat 24 in London with Daevid Allen, Rikki Stein and Terry Wilson ably assited in vibes by Howard Marks and Frank Rynne
Monday, November 26, 2012
Thursday, November 22, 2012
Brion Gysin Dreamachine launch London 24 Nov with two new Joujouka films
DREAMACHINE
Saturday 24th November 2012
“We must storm the citadels of enlightenment the means are at hand” William S. Burroughs
The UK launch of the first ever bespoke Brion Gysin Dreamachine
The dreamachine is a stroboscopic flicker device you view with your eyes closed that produces visual stimuli and hallucinations.
Gysin believed that by offering the world a drugless high the invention could revolutionize human consciousness.
The night will include talks, film, music and Dreamachines!
TALKS
Terry Wilson | Ian MacFadyen | Rikki Stein | Steve Finbow
MUSIC
Robert Hampson Music for Dreamachines installation
Fritz Catlin / Skintologists ex 23 Skidoo DJ set
Stewart Home's aural document - "Simulated LSD trip in a Lithuanian Forest" and a personal broadcast on Brion Gysin
Akoustik Timbre Frekuency
UN
FILMS
> Aphex Twin's Stakker Westworld from Marek Pytel and Reality Film
> Master Musicians of Joujouka new films
> FLicKeR :: A Film By Nik Sheehan
featuring Marianne Faithfull, DJ Spooky, The Stooges, Iggy Pop, Lee Ranaldo, Genesis P-Orridge,
John Giorno, Floria Sigismondi, and Kenneth Anger, Terry Wilson and others.
> 1960s Antony Balch film
featuring Ian Sommerville, Brion Gysin, William Burroughs, Alexander Trocchi Jean-Jacques Lebel
with live soundtrack mix by Frank Rynne
> James B L Hollands's Telepathy 101 from hard drive as it flickers with a 60 frame per second intensity!
Modern Panic III @ Apiary Studios
Saturday 24th November 2012
8pm - Late
458 Hackney Road, London E2 9EG
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Limited Tickets Available - NOW ON SALE!
“The Dreamachine is an aid to visionary experience” Aldous Huxley
First shown in 1962 the Dreamachine was invented in Paris by painter and visionary Brion Gysin, who also invented the Cut-Up method of writing for William S. Burroughs and a young Cambridge scholar Ian Sommerville. In Paris they lived at run down hotel which became known as The Beat Hotel as it was home to Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, William S. Burroughs and a host of Beatnik experimenters.
The Dreamachine was the first artwork intended to be viewed with the eyes closed. The Dreamachine is a cylindrical spinning device with a light which emits Alpha waves which cause changes in the brain to produce sensory changes, swirling colour patterns and intense dreams.
Over the past 50 it has been used by William Burroughs, Kurt Cobain, David Bowie, John Giorno, Paul McCartney, Marilyn Manson, Laurie Anderson, Keith Haring, Allen Ginsberg, Ira Cohen, Iggy Pop, Marianne Faithfull, Kenneth Anger, Beck, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and countless other artists and hipsters.
In 2012 the first ever mass produced models have been created. At the Toronto launch in October 2012 Booker prize winners Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje and John Geiger where the guests of honour. We will be launching the UK première of the dreamachines at Modern Panic III - Join us!
The Dreamachine was the first artwork intended to be viewed with the eyes closed. The Dreamachine is a cylindrical spinning device with a light which emits Alpha waves which cause changes in the brain to produce sensory changes, swirling colour patterns and intense dreams.
Over the past 50 it has been used by William Burroughs, Kurt Cobain, David Bowie, John Giorno, Paul McCartney, Marilyn Manson, Laurie Anderson, Keith Haring, Allen Ginsberg, Ira Cohen, Iggy Pop, Marianne Faithfull, Kenneth Anger, Beck, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and countless other artists and hipsters.
In 2012 the first ever mass produced models have been created. At the Toronto launch in October 2012 Booker prize winners Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje and John Geiger where the guests of honour. We will be launching the UK première of the dreamachines at Modern Panic III - Join us!
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Music
Robert Hampson's Alpha
The UK première of music designed for the Dreamachine experience comprises three 23 min pieces by the former Loop frontman and currently working as Main and Robert Hampson This will be a music installation with Dreamachines.
http://www.roberthampson.com/
Fritz Catlin / Skintologists
Former 23 Skidoo percussion master DJs his favourite chill out funky rhythms for Dreamachines
http://www.melodicarecordings.com/artist/skintologists
Akoustik Timbre Frekuency P23
provides music and video for Dreamachines
http://www.akoustiktimbrefrekuency.com/fr_home.cfm
UN new remixes featuring Brion Gysin
http://unamordelcongo.com/
Talks
Ian MacFadyenco-editor, with Oliver Harris, of Naked Lunch @50: Anniversary Essays, published in 2009. Sections from his text Codename Burroughs were published in English and German versions in 2012 to accompany the exhibition The Name Is Burroughs: Expanded Media at the ZKM, Karlsruhe. His other published work includes Point Of No Return: To The Memory Of Joan Burroughs (2009) and Ira Cohen’s Photographs: A Living Theatre (2000).
Rikki Stein Stein put on Jimi Hendrix’s first European tour in 1968. He moved to Joujouka Morocco in 1970. He was a friend of Brion Gysin’s and William Burroughs and organised the first international tour of Master Musicians of Joujouka in 1980 before going on to manage Fela Kuti. He was part of the production team of the hit Broadway musical 'Fela! and executive producer of 'Fela! Back to Africa.
Stewart Home Aural documents : "Simulated LSD trip in a Lithuanian Forest" and a personal broadcast on Brion Gysin
http://www.stewarthomesociety.org/
Steve Finbow
on "Gysin and Ginsberg: sexual and textual politics in the Beat Hotel."
FIlms
FLicKeR :: A Film By Nik Sheehan
Featuring Marianne Faithfull, DJ Spooky, The Stooges, Iggy Pop, Lee Ranaldo, Genesis P-Orridge,
John Giorno, Floria Sigismondi, and Kenneth Anger, Terry Wilson and More
www.flickerflicker.com
Tribe Ahl Serif (1972 restored 2012)
Preview premiere of the a recently restored music documentary shot in June 1972 in the village of Joujouka featuring Master Musicians of Joujouka dirJohn Anthony unseen movie made in 1972,
http://www.joujouka.net
Joujouka (2012) by Daragh McCarthy
edited by Ronan O'Muirgheasa shot at the Brian Jones 40th Anniversary Festival in the village in 2008. Preview http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/3052/
On Going Guerrilla Conditions (1960-62) by Antony Balch53 minutes of rare black and white film by Antony Balch of William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Alexander Trocchi, etc shot in Paris, New York, London and Tangier between 1960 and 1962 with live soundtrack by Islamic Diggers founder Frank Rynne.
Stakker Westword Stakker/Marek Pytel/Reality Film which features a special soundtrack by Aphex Twin.
Edit available http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuK3yspOKKc
http://www.realityfilm.co.uk/
James B L Hollands's Telepathy 101 from hard drive as it flickers with a 60 frame per second intensity!!
James B.L. Hollands is a video artist, musician and writer who currently lives in London. His work has shown at the Tate Modern, Whitechapel Gallery and Liverpool Biennial as well as numerous squats of equal importance.
Special Presentation
Terry WilsonSpecial Presentation for services to the oeuvre to our guest of honour!
co-author, with Brion Gysin, of Here To Go: Planet R-101. First published in 1982, this seminal book on the life and work of Brion Gysin has been published in a number of editions. Terry Wilson’s other books include Dreams of Green Base (1986), ‘D’ Train (1985), and Perilous Passage (2005). DAYS LANE: Extracts From The Scattering Course was published in 2009.
Overview:
Films :
Among the highlights will be two premières of films featuring Morocco’s legendary Sufi trance artists The Master Musicians of Joujouka who were brought to Western attention by Gysin. Tribe Ahl Serif is an unseen movie made in 1972, while the second is a film by Daragh McCarthy shot at the Brian Jones 40th Anniversary Festival in the village in 2008.
The 2008 documentary of the Dreamachine FlicKer by Nik Sheehan featuring Marianne Faithfull, DJ Spooky, The Stooges, Iggy Pop, Lee Renaldo, Genesis P-Orridge, John Giorno, Floria Sigismondi, Terry Wilson and Kenneth Anger.
Other film highlights include, 53 minutes of rare black and white film by Antony Balch of William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Alexander Trocchi, etc shot in Paris, New York, London and Tangier between 1960 and 1962 and Marek Pytel’s Stakker Westword which features a special soundtrack by Aphex Twin.
Talks & Spoken Word :
Ian McFadyen, Stewart Home, Rikki Stein, while Burroughs and Gysin collaborator Terry Wilson will be on hand to receive a special award to acknowledge his contribution to the wild experimentation of the Paris beat nexus.
Music :
Musical highlights include the UK premiere of Robert Hampson’s Alpha a suite of three 23 minute long pieces by the former main man of Loop and currently working both as Main and as a solo artist, former 23 Skidoo sound artist and master percussionist Fritz Catlin of the Skintologists will be DJing, Frank Rynne (Islamic Diggers and producer of Master Musicians of Joujouka will create a live soundtrack to the Antony Balch Burroughs film,Akoustik Timbre Frekuency provide film and Music for The Dreamachine while other contributions include new remixes of Brion Gysin by Argentinean based UN.
Films :
Among the highlights will be two premières of films featuring Morocco’s legendary Sufi trance artists The Master Musicians of Joujouka who were brought to Western attention by Gysin. Tribe Ahl Serif is an unseen movie made in 1972, while the second is a film by Daragh McCarthy shot at the Brian Jones 40th Anniversary Festival in the village in 2008.
The 2008 documentary of the Dreamachine FlicKer by Nik Sheehan featuring Marianne Faithfull, DJ Spooky, The Stooges, Iggy Pop, Lee Renaldo, Genesis P-Orridge, John Giorno, Floria Sigismondi, Terry Wilson and Kenneth Anger.
Other film highlights include, 53 minutes of rare black and white film by Antony Balch of William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Alexander Trocchi, etc shot in Paris, New York, London and Tangier between 1960 and 1962 and Marek Pytel’s Stakker Westword which features a special soundtrack by Aphex Twin.
Talks & Spoken Word :
Ian McFadyen, Stewart Home, Rikki Stein, while Burroughs and Gysin collaborator Terry Wilson will be on hand to receive a special award to acknowledge his contribution to the wild experimentation of the Paris beat nexus.
Music :
Musical highlights include the UK premiere of Robert Hampson’s Alpha a suite of three 23 minute long pieces by the former main man of Loop and currently working both as Main and as a solo artist, former 23 Skidoo sound artist and master percussionist Fritz Catlin of the Skintologists will be DJing, Frank Rynne (Islamic Diggers and producer of Master Musicians of Joujouka will create a live soundtrack to the Antony Balch Burroughs film,Akoustik Timbre Frekuency provide film and Music for The Dreamachine while other contributions include new remixes of Brion Gysin by Argentinean based UN.
Can't wait until 24th November ? Dreamachines are available now from :
http://brianjonesjoujoukafestival.blogspot.fr/2012/08/buy-brion-gysins-dreamachine-direct.html
Profits help support The Master Musicians of Joujouka
http://brianjonesjoujoukafestival.blogspot.fr/2012/08/buy-brion-gysins-dreamachine-direct.html
Profits help support The Master Musicians of Joujouka
Saturday, November 3, 2012
The oldest Master Musician Mallim Ali Abdeslam El Attar passes away
His nephew Ahmed El Attar is the current leader of Master Musicians of Joujouka.
He will be missed by all the people of Joujouka.
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Thursday, October 25, 2012
On the occasion of Aid al-Adha the Master Musicians of Joujouka wish you Happy Aid Mubarak
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| Joujouka by and © herman vanaershot all rights reserved |
بمناسبة عيد الاضحى المبارك مجموعة زهجوكة تتمنى لكم عيد مبارك سعيد و كل عام و أنتم بألف خير
On the occasion of Aid al-Adha the Master Musicians of Joujouka wish you Happy Aid Mubarak
and every year you have good health
Friday, September 21, 2012
Brion Gysin Dreamachine Canadian launch 10.11.12
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Attention all our friends in Ontario
Brion Gysin Dreamachine launch
Event: Dreamachine Official Canadian Release
Location: The Gladstone Hotel Art Gallery 2nd Floor 1214 Queen Street Toronto Canada
Date & Time: Thursday 11th October 2012, 7-11pm
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Master Musicians of Joujouka Festival 7-9 June 2013 Booking Now
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Sunday, July 29, 2012
Major photo feature on Master Musicians of Joujouka Brian Jones 40th Anniversary Festival 2008
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| Kings of the Stone Age by Mark Paytress and photos by Jill Furmanovsky |
This is an amazing 11 page photo feature on the Master Musicians of Joujouka Brian Jones 40th Anniversary Festival held in Joujouka on this day in 2008. Words are by Rolling Stone's expert Mark Paytress and photos by global legend Jill Furmanovsky. Click link to read PDF, print or download.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/101439578/Master-Musicans-of-Joujouka-Kings-of-the-Stone-Age-Photos-Jill-Furmanovsky-words-Mark-Paytress-One-Life-2008
Booking for the 2013 edition is open now on www.joujouka.net Master Musicans of Joujouka "Kings of the Stone Age" Photos Jill Furmanovsky words Mark P...
Saturday, July 28, 2012
Master Musicians of Joujouka feature in The Wire 1995
Article by Chris Campion in The Wire 1995 on the Master Musicians of Joujouka and Master Musicians of Jajouka featuring Bachir Attar
http://www.scribd.com/doc/101398356/Joujouka-TheWire1995
http://www.scribd.com/doc/101398356/Joujouka-TheWire1995
Brian Jones recorded Master Musicians of Joujouka LP 44 years ago today
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| Cover of the promotion press package for Brian Jones presents the Pipes of Pan at Joujouka (Rolling Stones Records 1971) |
"I don't know if I have the stamina incredible constant strain of the Festival".
Brian died in July 1969, Suki Poiter died in a tragic car accident with her husband in 1982, Brion Gysin died in July 1986, Mohamed Hamri in 2000 and the last Master still alive who played on the recording is Mallim Ali El Attar who is 102 years old.
In 2008 Master Musicians of Joujouka celebrated the 40th Anniversary of Brian Jones's recording with a festival in their village. It has been running ever since in his honor and in honor of the traditions of the village.
The festival since 2009 has been moved to June to avoid the likely 40 degree temperatures in late July. Booking for 2013 festival is available www.joujouka.net To ensure a place book now.
Saturday, July 14, 2012
A Musical Mecca Irish Times on Master Musicians 2012 Festival
Click on image below to read article Words by Kevin Barrington images by Herman Vanaershot
The Irish Times Magazine
14 Jul 2012
Or read here http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/travel/2012/0714/1224319895508.html
The Irish Times Magazine
14 Jul 2012
Or read here http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/travel/2012/0714/1224319895508.html
A musical mecca
GO MOROCCO : A small festival in the foothills of Morocco’s Rif mountains has become a place of sonic pilgrimage for artists, thrill-seekers and rock stars, writesKEVIN BARRINGTON
ARRIVING IN THE village of Joujouka in the foothills of Morocco’s Rif mountains, it’s easy to see that electricity and mobile phones are relatively recent arrivals while running water has yet to make an appearance. Far less discernible, however, is the fact that the village is a musical Mecca, a place of pilgrimage for artists, oddballs, thrill-seekers and sonic subversives.
Although it is only a couple of hours drive south of Tangiers, Joujouka is well off the tourist track and home to only a few hundred people. Yet the village’s visitor list reads like a counter-culture’s Who’s Who, featuring a host of such iconic figures as William Burroughs, Brian Jones and Timothy Leary. One of the latest in a long list of those seduced by Joujouka’s charm is Frank Rynne, the former frontman of Irish group The Baby Snakes, who is now a doctoral student of history at Trinity College Dublin.
Rynne became involved with the village’s Sufi trance musicians when the Moroccan painter Hamri introduced him to the place about 20 years ago. He now manages the Master Musicians of Joujouka and for the past five years has been hosting a small annual festival in the village showcasing the group’s talents.
Rynne tries to maintain a balance between providing the musicians with a living and protecting traditional village life from an invasion of hordes of Western hipsters. This year’s festival attracted about 50 guests. “That’s the most people we feel we can have without creating too much chaos and jettisoning the unique intimate charm that brings people back year after year,” he says.
Although there’s stunning scenery, great hospitality and excellent food, Rynne says he is not comfortable with the term “boutique festival”.
“Joujouka is a farming village. It’s pretty basic. We’re certainly not talking chichi here,” he says. If the festival had a programme, it would run like this: a sheep is slaughtered, bread is broken, talk is had and then the musicians kick off until dawn looms and the first cry of the muezzin signals time for bed.
The wild Byzantine sound of the Master Musicians has led to collaborations with the Rolling Stones, jazz experimentalist Ornette Coleman and, more recently, Jane’s Addiction. Rynne brought Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins to the village to see the group in action. Beat writer and artist Brion Gysin was perhaps the main person responsible for taking the group to a wider audience. “I want to hear that music every day of my life,” Gysin said after he had first heard the Masters in the 1950s. In his book The Process, Gysin paints a vivid picture of the life and sounds of Joujouka at that time. He brought his friend and colleague William Burroughs to listen to the group and he too was enraptured.Burroughs later told Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page that the feeling of energy and exhilaration he experienced at one of Zeppelin’s gigs was similar to what he had felt in Morocco listening to the Masters. Acid guru Timothy Leary shared Burroughs’ enthusiasm for the group’s sound and labelled the Masters a “4,000 year old rock ’n’ roll band”.
Joujouka looks like just a small, poor but idyllic, mountain village. Its true allure, its wild spectral nature, comes alive and makes sense only when the first notes of music ring out. When the Masters start with their pipes and drums — ghiata and tibel — and merge with the braying of donkeys and the chorus of crickets, they form the perfect soundtrack to complement the vast, surprisingly lush vista of the rolling foothills of the Rif Mountains.
When the Masters get into their groove, pumping out astonishing volume with their acoustic instruments, you understand instantly why this is a place of sonic pilgrimage. Like sean nós on the Aran Islands or blues in the Mississippi Delta, this is local history and culture brilliantly captured and conveyed in sound and rhythm.
The pipes scream North Africa with its serpentine souks and bewildering mosaics, while underneath, the drums beat out a hypnotising African rhythm. This is the sound of the Maghreb, underpinned by pure primordial rhythm.
The keen ear catches snatches of all the very best of world music. A little Irish here. A touch of Miles Davis there. A flash of gypsy Balkan. Then the Velvet Underground. And somewhere in a white noise finale there’s a flicker of Radiohead. Anita Pallenberg, a guest at the first year’s festival and former partner of both Brian Jones and Keith Richards, said she particularly loved the group’s “Zeppelin riffs”. When it comes to taking a throbbing circular rhythm and upping the adrenalin-drenched tempo, there isn’t a superstar DJ from Chicago to the Balearics who has anything new to teach the Masters.
At the end of the first night, I complimented musician Ahmed Attar, telling him that he was Islam’s Elvis. The master of the Masters looked quizzically at me and replied: “Shkun Elvis?” Who is Elvis?
The Masters are no strangers to five-hour sets and they tend to kick off where most of the best Western rock ’n’ roll winds up. They take what we know as a few frenzied minutes of encore and carry it on for an hour or more. Finally the audience, assaulted by bass and bewildered by treble, loses itself in ecstatic trance.
The music’s religious origins lie in this saintly sonic bliss. This is Sufi religious transcendence fuelled by pagan passion. According to Gysin, the musicians hold a secret, hidden even from themselves: they practise “the Rites of Pan under the ragged cloak of Islam”. The musicians weave arabesque soundscapes, the intensity building. When the Muezzin’s cry sent the revellers to bed, one guest shook his head in bewilderment: “If the Yanks had any cop on, they would close Gitmo and send the Jihadis to Joujouka and subject them, not to torture, but to this sublime sound.”
Sunday night saw a primordial panoply of fire, magic, dance, beauty, lust and fertility. Forging the most intricate of aural jewellery, the Masters brought the night to a crystalline climax.
Rynne explained that the spiritual power of the music originates with Sidi (saint) Ahmed Sheikh, a learned Persian scholar who brought Islam to northern Morocco around 800AD. The Sufi saint is buried in the village shrine and legend has it that he blessed the music of the Master Musicians giving them the power to heal the sick and the crazy.
To this day, the ill chain themselves to a fig tree in the courtyard of the shrine seeking solace. The Masters then come, play to the infirm and blow their madness away. “Electric shock treatment? Give me this cure any day,” Rynne said.
The group, whose current line-up ranges in age of 40-80 years, has been going for centuries and the skills are passed down from father to son. Their sublime Sufi sound strikes quite a contrast to the popular perception of Islam, which is dominated by the dour Wahhabi sect promoted by Saudi Arabia.
Shattering stereotypes, the Masters opened the Glastonbury festival on the main Pyramid stage last summer with an Islamic blessing before delivering a rousing set of ancient rock ’n’ roll. They then left the stage to younger and less experienced musicians such as U2 who have also cited the Masters as an influence.
Getting there
The 2013 Master Musicians of Joujouka Festival takes place June 7th-9th with tickets costing €350. Booking is available on joujouka.netjoujouka.net The three-night ticket includes the pick up and return to the train station in the nearby town of Ksar El Kebir, music, food, accommodation, soft drinks, bottled water, tea and coffee. Guests stay in the homes of the musicians.
There are no direct flights from Ireland to the north of Morocco. Ryanair fly to Tangier from Paris (Beauvais) and Brussels (Charleroi). Easyjet fly to Tangier from Paris (Charles de Gaulle).
While there are direct flights from Dublin to Agadir, it is some 700km from Ksar El Kebir and there is no direct train service. Scheduled services with Royal Air Maroc operate from Heathrow and
Paris Orly. royalairmaroc.com
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Monday, July 2, 2012
The Master Musicians of Joujouka Festival 2013 booking now open for 14-16 June 2013.
| The Master Musicians of Joujouka Festival 2013 booking now open for 14-16 June 2013. |
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| Sunset through the ancient olive trees at the Sufi shrine pic Frank Rynne |
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| Boujeloud 2012 by Herman Vanaershot |
The festival is a true micro festival and has received rave writes ups and reports from Mojo, The Guardian, Liberation, BBC with forthcoming pieces from Al Jazeera and The Irish Times.
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| Afternoon session pic Phil Hostak |
Naturally the highlight of the festival is the three days of music and the intimate access to the Masters, the spectacular vistas and the hospitality.
Press from recent years Click on title to go to article
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
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 2013 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 cave of Boujeloud by Victoria Stephenson 2012 |
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Magara cave of Boujeloud situated about 1km from the village by Lars Movin 2010
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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
The food is excellent. We can cater for vegetarians easily and vegans with a far bit of hassle but we do so every year. |
| Lunch 2010 photo by Joachim Montessuis |
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| Breakfast at the house of Master Musicians leader Ahmed El Attar by Phil Hostak |
The festival (ie The Master Musicians and the villagers) provide all meals. Food is sourced locally.
Friday 14th June lunch and dinner.Saturday 15th June Breakfast, lunch, and dinner
16th Breakfast, lunch and dinner.
17th. Breakfast and transport to Ksar El Kebir to meet your train or onward connections.
Snacks are available at your host families house as required!!! They may appear to be meals in themselves.
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| Figs fresh from the trees in Joujouka 2010 photo Tomas McGrail White |
Accommodation
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| The House where Brian Jones stayed in 1968 with well and fig trees by Manno Franco 2009 |
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| Relaxing in the home of Ahmed Attar pic Syra Trek |
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.
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| Inside the courtyard of the home of Master Musician Abdelslam Errtoubi Photo Lars Movin 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.
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| The vista from the grave of Mohamed Hamri by Maki Kita |
Using the paypal button below you can pay for a full ticket for the 3 day event at €350 or a €50 non refundable deposit or if you have paid a deposit and wish to pay the balance of €300.
Full Balance is payable by 1 March 2013 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 Musicians of Joujouka Mali mal M'Halmaz Everyone is together by MasterMusiciansofJoujouka
Master Musicians of Joujouka Brain Jones 40th Anniversary Festival 2008
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| Guests chatting after lunch copyright Herman Vanaershot |
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| Post lunch relaxing in the performance tent photo copyright Herman Vanaershot |
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| Boujeloud in the flames, photo by Robert Hampson master Musicians of Joujouka Festival 2010 |
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