Travel arrangements for Master Musicians of Joujouka Festival June 4-6 2010

Royal Air Maroc are running offers every Thursday on their website www.royalairmaroc.com

Easyjet have cheap flights to Tangier from Paris and Madrid www.easyjet.com
Ryanair fly to Marrakesh and Fez from many European destinations Ryanair.com NB Trian journey times from Marrakesh to Moulay El Mehdi 10 hours Fez to Moulay El Mehdi 4-5 hours, Tangier to Moulay El Mehdi 1 and half hours.
Fly to Gibraltar or Malaga for ferry services to Tangier from Algeciras, Tarifa and Gibraltar, See Andalusia Tourist information http://www.andalucia.com/travel/ferry/home.htm
Moroccan Trains NB destination for pick up by festival organisers for Joujouka/Jajouka is Ksar El Kebir the main train station there is called Moulay El Mehdi www.oncf.ma. Pick up by arrangement with festival. We will meet you at your train and bring you directly to the village.



NB From the UK Ryanair have very cheap flights to Fez on 3 June and returns on the 6 and the 8 of June £73 (retrieved 29/03/2010) www.ryanair.com Trains from Fez to Moulay El Medhi www.oncf.ma
If you need advice on travel arrangements email joujouka@gmail.com

Booking for festival www.joujouka.net

Master Musicians of Joujouka Festival 4-6 June 2010 Booking Now for Joujouka/Jajouka Morocco

Book Now for the Master Musicians of Joujouka Festival 4-6 June, Joujouka/Jajouka Morocco



Stay in the homes of true Master Musicians and experience 3 days in intimate contact with the ancient music and its present day true practitioners.
This event is an ethical festival featuring traditional Sufi trance.

2 day and 3 day tickets available on the official site of the Sufi brotherhood who continue their traditions in their village in the foothills of the Rif Mountains, the Ahl Srif Djebel.

www.joujouka.net

Details and booking from the festival blog http://brianjonesjoujoukafestival.blogspot.com/2010/02/master-musicians-of-joujouka-festival-4.html
NB This is festival run by the only group of Master Musicians who live and play amongst their tribe.

London Calling: A Countercultural History of London Since 1945 Guardian interview with Miles

Miles aka Barry Miles (on his books) has his new book, London Calling: A Countercultural History of London Since 1945,  out  now from Atlantic Books. Miles was a constant on the couterculture scene since the 1960s and has never lost his edge. His new book traces the history of the counterculture in London from 1945 to the present day. This is a milestone publication by one of the few participants in the scene who actually remembers the 1960s.

Eric Anderson, Terry Wilson and Miles

Naked Lunch @50 Paris 2009 photo Frank Rynne

There is a great interview in the Guardian available on line

For 45 years, Miles has lived in the same building in Fitzrovia, north of Oxford Street, a stone's throw from Soho to the south and BBC Broadcasting House to the west. Originally, he occupied a flat on an upper floor with his first wife, Sue Crane; he now lives with the travel writer Rosemary Bailey and their teenage son in the basement. The walls of the narrow hallway are covered with paintings, including several by William Burroughs, made during Burroughs's London phase, when Miles took on archival duties and compiled a bibliography of his work; he has also edited a variorum edition of Allen Ginsberg's Howl. Surrounding the pictures are photographs of Miles with Ginsberg, the cartoonist Robert Crumb and others. He is an exemplary case of social mobility – not upwards via the pursuit of money or status, but into the classless orbit of art. "As soon as I took my art A-level, at 16, I went off to become a painter. There was no further thought than that . . . You went to art school to learn how to do art. Then I saw a programme on television about the Beat generation. It was quite critical, but I thought it was wonderful. There was Ginsberg reading Howl and Lawrence Ferlinghetti with the Golden Gate Bridge behind him. It seemed to me that was the model to go for."
The freedom to choose your own style of living has been the main theme of Miles's pilgrimage. "We wanted the church and state to have no part in personal relations," he writes in In the Sixties, having reminded readers of the rigidity of social mores in previous decades. "And once we had got rid of them, then would come the great experiment of deciding how to live."

Read the full interview http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/mar/20/barry-miles-sixties-indica-interview
 And from the Independent http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/london-calling-a-countercultural-history-of-london-since-1945-by-barry-miles-1919971.html


And buy the book 


Miles, Barry (2010). London Calling: A Countercultural History of London Since 1945. Atlantic Books. ISBN 9781843546139.

Maroc 1 TV filmed in Joujouka/Jajouka c. 2005

Women of Joujouka/Jahjouka/Jajouka with Master Musicians Mohamed Mockshan and Abu filmed in Joujouka/Jajouka c.2005.

This clip is from a segment arranged and filmed in Joujouka c.2005 by Maroc 2 TV. The clip is filmed in the garden of Mohamed Hamri. The olives trees were planted by Hamri when he built this house in 1989. Hamri passed away in 2000. His life's work with the Master Musicians assured that the music of his village and its Master practictioners was world famous. In 1968 Hamri and Brion Gysin brought Brian Jones to the village to record. The resulting LP "Brian Jones presents the Pipes of Pan at Joujouka" was released in 1971

Master Musicians of Joujouka Festival 2010

4-6 June Joujouka, Jahjouka, Jajouka, Ahl Srif Djebel (Ahl Srif Mountains), Morocco.

Booking now on The Master Musicians Official Site

www.joujouka.net

For info email joujouka@gmail.com

Charlie Gillett R.I.P.

 Charlie Gillett (20 February 1942 - 17 March 2010),

Charlie Gillett the  champion of music and especially in the last  three decades of the phenomenon known as World Music has passed away. Master Musicians of Joujouka offer their prayers and sympathy to his family.
His World Service Radio show brought practitioners and fans from across the world together through culture and song.  
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8573682.stm

An anthropological article on Boujeloud and the myth of Pan

An anthropological article on Boujeloud and the myth of Pan, Brian Jones and Joujouka from the New English Review.
The Pipes of Pan (Dedicated to the Memory of Alan Lomax)
by Geoffrey Clarfield

http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/57657/sec_id/57657

Master Musicians of Joujouka Festival 4-6 June 2010 Booking Now for Joujouka Morocco 2010

Master Musicians of Joujouka Festival 4-5 June 2010 with optional extra night 6th June 2010

Place: Joujouka, (Jajouka), Morocco.

Booking  Master Musicians of Joujouka website   or below.

Boujeloud dances at the Brian Jones 40th Anniversary Festival, 

Joujouka, Morocco July 2008. Photo Jill Furmanovsky/Rock Archive

The Master Musicians announce their summer festival will be held 4-6June 2010 in their village in Morocco. Guests will stay with the musicians and their families and experience three days and nights of ritual Sufi music in its natural setting. On Saturday 5 June the musicians will perform the Boujeloud ritual in the village square through the night. In July 2008 the Master Musicians of Joujouka hosted the Brian Jones 40th Anniversary Festival in their village in the southern Rif Mountains of Northern Morocco. The festival was a celebration of fortieth anniversary of Brian Jones’ recording the iconic LP Brian Jones presents the Pipes of Pan at Joujouka (Rolling Stones Records 1971). The festival brought the families of old Masters now passed on and a group of visitors from abroad including old friends of the errant Rolling Stone.

In 2009 the Master Musicians festival moved to June as the tempreture at the end of July can be above 40C. The festival was a great success and was reported on in The Wire magazine  October, 2009.

Guests will experience life in Joujouka staying with the musicians and their families in their isolated village. The Master Musicians of Joujouka will play in intimate sessions around their madrassa/school. The highlight of the festival wwill be the village’s celebration of the Boujeloud ritual in the village square.

Places at the festival are strictly limited as due to accommodation limitations with the families in Joujouka/Jajouka. Guests will be collected from Ksar El Kebir the nearest town to Joujouka on Friday 5th June and will be brought to the village. Full board will be provided. Food will be prepared in traditional Joujouka fashion from locally sourced produced. Joujouka is a framing community well as Sufi trance music the village is famous for its beautiful olives and olive oil.

The festival is booking now. The price for the main two days of the festival 4-5 June is €250 euro.

Accommodation for 4, 5, and 6 June is €300 (Euro)

Guests will be collected at Moulay El Mehdi train station in Ksar El Kebir on June 4th and transported to Joujouka or by arrangement . For Moroccan trains see www.oncf.ma

Full board lunch and evening meal on Friday 4 June

Breakfast, Lunch and traditional Moroccan mountain feast on Saturday 5

Breakfast (all guests) plus  lunch, and evening meal on Sunday 6th (for those with three day bookings)

Booking now on Master Musicians of Joujouka Web Site or below

For payment by credit transfer please email me for details joujouka@gmail.com

Places are limited to 75.

If you have any questions please do get in touch. joujouka@gmail.com 

Joujouka 2-day EUR 250, 4-5 June 2010

Click link below to pay with paypal account or credit cards. Secure payments by Paypal.

Joujouka 3-day EUR 300 4-6 June 2010

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Boujeloud in Joujouka/Jajouka filmed on telephone

This interesting video appeared on you tube this week.

See http://www.youtube.com/user/jmmmedo#p/a/u/0/Ac79LQnHTQs

Master Musicians of Joujouka Brian Jones 40th Anniversary Festival July 2008 link to photos

Images by Marc English

Master Musicians of Joujouka Brian Jones 40th Anniversary Festival July 2008 took place on the anniversary of Brian Jones recocording the seminal "Brian Jones presents the Pipes of Pan at Joujouka".
In 2009 the Master Musicians second annual festival in their home village continued this intersting event which allows people to explore Joujouka/Jajouka and see what life is actually like there away from the histronics of commercialised versions of their music.  The festival was moved from late July as the Fete du Throne of Mohamed VI the king of Morocco takes places in the last week of July and the musicians are annually called on to play as representitives of their region.

link to photos and reports from Brain Jones 40th Anniversary festival on the Master Musicians of Joujouka Myspace

http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=58849694&blogID=422214485

The 2010 Festival takes place from 4-6 June and is booking now
http://brianjonesjoujoukafestival.blogspot.com/2009/12/book-now-for-master-musicians-of.html

Réservez dès à présent pour le festival des Master Musicians of Joujouka, 4 et 5 juin 2010 (nuit supplémentaire le 6 juin en option)

Festival des Master Musicians of Joujouka, 4 et 5 juin 2010 avec nuit supplémentaire du 6 juin en option
A : Joujouka (Jajouka), Maroc

Réservations : site officiel Master Musicians of Joujouka  website ou voir plus bas

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 4 au 6 juin, 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 5 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 les deux jours du festival, les 4 et 5 juin : 250 €.

Pour trois jours (4, 5 et 6 juin) : 300 €.



Les organisateurs accueilleront les festivaliers à la gare de Moulay El Medhi à Ksar El Kebir le 4 juin, les conduiront jusqu’à Joujouka et les raccompagneront à la gare après le festival. Horaires : www.oncf.ma



Pension complète : 4 juin, déjeuner et dîner

Petit-déjeuner, déjeuner et festin traditionnel marocain le samedi 5 juin

Petit-déjeuner (pout tous), puis déjeuner et dîner le dimanche 6 juin pour les réservations 3 jours.

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 75.

Pour toute question, contactez : joujouka@gmail.com





Joujouka 2 jours : 250 €, 4-5 juin 2010

Joujouka 3 jours : 300 €, 4-6 juin 2010

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