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Friday, April 17, 2015
Record Store Day Special Release 1000 vinyl LPs Master Musicians of Joujouka Into the Ahl Srif
The first record of new material available on vinyl since 1978. Focusing on the trance-inducing rhaita music of the fertility rites of Boujeloud, this eschews the highly edited, special effects approach of Brian Jones Presents The Pipes Of Pan At Joujouka in favor of a raw, untampered transmission. This LP takes a closer look than ever before at the most cacophonous, droning, & deeply psychedelic side of their music. Available 18 April 2015
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Sunday, April 12, 2015
preview track Master Musicians of Joujouka new LP Into the Ahl Srif limited edition of 1000 available 18 April
The first new LP on vinyl of The Master Musicans of Joujouka since 1975 will be out 18 April to coincide with record store day. Recorded by acclaimed artist Adrian Rew see The Wire http://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/essays/easy-to-get-to_hard-to-leave
Into the Ahl Srif includes hard core performances form the Boujeloud ritual by the current traditional artist Masters of the village.
A preview is available on the Ergot Records soundcloud
The 8th Master Musicians of Joujouka Festival June 5-7 2015 has some places left booking on www.joujouka.org
inquiries re booking, the festival and the LP email joujouka@gmail.com
Friday, September 5, 2014
The Master Musicians of Joujouka Festival explored by The Independent UK. Nov 2014 and June 2015 Booking now open!
Paul Trynka, former editor of Mojo and Q and author of the definitive biographies of David Bowie, Iggy Pop and now Brian Jones has written a major feature review on the Beat in Morocco featuring his experiences at The Master Musicians of Joujouka Festival.
As evening falls, the musicians walk into the tent in formal, almost military robes. From the first beat the music is arresting, melodies carried by seven or eight rhaita, oboe-like pipes – the pipes of Pan – flanked by five or six drummers playing tbel, primitive military-style drums. Pipers play a call and response; over the next five or six hours, then three successive nights, I hear hundreds of melodies, some surely blues or folk, some impossibly alien, while the drums boom out relentlessly hypnotic polyrhythms. The volume is overwhelming – your ears ring, your brain shakes, your teeth rattle. I've lost all consciousness of time, when suddenly a new energy fills the air – a goat-skinned apparition leaps on stage and the pipes distort into a rush of noise, like a Jimi Hendrix guitar solo. Bou Jeloud dances across the tent, shaking his hips in front of the musicians, who sweat with the intensity of their work. The little goat-skinned creature taunts musicians and crowd, brandishing olive branches, swiping young women and occasional unwary men.
The house where Brian Jones stayed in Joujouka. Photo by Paul Trynka. It's a provocative, powerful performance. But it's fragile and endangered, too. "
Booking for the Master Musicians of Joujouka Festival 5-7 June 2015 with drop off on the morning of the 8th June is open at http://www.joujouka.org/the-festival/"Morocco: Follow the sound of the Beats" by Paul Trynka published in The Independent UK 6 Sept 2014 online version 5 Sept 2014 Paul Trynka Morocco: Follow the sound of the Beats
Booking for a special Burroughs 100 night on 15 November , food accomadation and a full performence of Boujeloud in advance of the European Beat Networks Conference 17-19 Nov Hotel Chellah Tangier celebrating Burroughs is open at
http://www.brianjonesjoujoukafestival.blogspot.fr/2014/08/joujouka-boujeloud-before-european-beat.html
The full program for the European Beat Studies Network Conference in Tangier 17-19 Nov at Hotel Chellah is available on their website http://ebsn.eu/ebsn-conference-2014-tangier-morocco/
Paul Trynka whose new biography of Brian Jones 'Sympathy For The Devil' (Transworld) costs £20 (trynka.net)
Master Musicians of Joujouka on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/pages/Master-Musicians-of-Joujouka/105892372781794
Sunday, August 24, 2014
Burroughs 100 Joujouka Boujeloud 15 Nov before European Beat Network Conference in Tangier Burroughs100 Nov 2014
In prelude to the European Beat Networks Conference which, this year honors William S Burroughs in his centenary year the Master Musicians of Joujouka will perform a special Burroughs100 event in their village featuring Boujeloud on Sat 15 November. The price includes pick up and return to Ksar El Kebir, meals and accommodation for one night in the village. If you are not on a mailing list email joujouka@gmail.com for more details.
Use Paypal Button below to pay 100 euro.
Friday, June 27, 2014
Thursday, May 22, 2014
Video of Boujeloud at Master Musicians of Joujouka Festival 2013
The Sonic Masters in total drone mode. We have put a new video up on our youtube channel shot by Marek Pytel of Reality Films at the Master Musicians of Joujouka Festival 2013. This 5 min edit of hours long performance serves as a teaser and a taster. It features some serious drone sonics. Enjoy and please share. It features from the fraternity of The Master Musicians of Joujouka,
Ahmed El Attar, Abdeslam Rrtoubi, Abdellah Ziyat, Ahmed Talha, El Touhami Talha, Ali Ezouglai, Mustapha El Attar, El Khalil Radi, Mohamed Mokhchan, Mohamed El Attar,and Mohamed El Hatmi (Boujeloud).
Reality Films http://koti.mbnet.fi/cgurney/reality/index.html
Master Musicians of Joujouka http://www.joujouka.org/
Monday, May 19, 2014
LA Review of Books feature on Master Musicians of Joujouka Festival
Artist Piper Mavis has written a report of the Master Musicians of Joujouka Festival and the quest for the haunts of the Beats and the Rolling Stones in Morocco."As the flames licked the inky night sky and the music reached a feverish frenzy, Bou Jeloud himself, the North African Pan-like spirit, seemingly emerged from the fire. As we watched him dance and taunt the fire, the musicians, and the audience, I couldn’t help but believe that there is such a thing as sacred music" Read Piper Mavis's full article A Visit with the Master Musicians of Joujouka
Booking for the last few places for this years festival is available on http://www.joujouka.org/the-festival/more-about-the-festival-and-booking/
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Booking for the last few places for this years festival is available on http://www.joujouka.org/the-festival/more-about-the-festival-and-booking/
Saturday, November 2, 2013
3 Photo essays by Sunny Suits and 1 by Arian Fariborz photographers and writers inspired at Master Musicians of Joujouka Festival 2013
American artist Sunny Suits
Sunny Suits Urban magazine Tangier
http://issuu.com/urbainmagazine/docs/urbain_08_web see page 59
On Dazed and Confused online
http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/16591/1/master-musicians-of-joujouka-festival
Le Festsival Joujouka vu Sunny Suits in Liberation Weekend
http://www.liberation.fr/photographie/2013/07/04/le-festival-joujouka-vu-par-sunny-suits_915920?photo_id=533161
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Master Musicians of Joujouka by Arian Fariborz
Arian Fariborz has a photo essay from the 2013 Master Musicians of Joujouka up on Quantra.de Arian has previously written on Joujouka and included a chapter on Joujouka and a long interview with manager Frank Rynne in his 2010 book Rock The Kasbah Popmusik und Moderen inm Orient
The "Master Musicians of Joujouka": Straddling East and West
English
http://en.qantara.de/node/16996
German
http://de.qantara.de/inhalt/die-master-musicians-of-joujouka-grenzgaenger-zwischen-orient-und-okzident
Booking for Master Musiicans of Joujouka Festival 2014 20-22 June Booking Now http://www.joujouka.org/the-festival/more-about-the-festival-and-booking/
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
10.5 Sat. エキゾ夢紀行 ジャジューカ2013！渋谷UPLINK FACTORY
If you are in Tokyo 5 Oct there is a night in honour of Master Musicians of Joujouka with talks and films at UPLINK Factory
| おなじみ渋谷UPLINK FACTORYでのエキゾ夢紀行。今度はモロッコのジャ ローリング・ストーンズの故ブライアン・ジョーンズをは 最新機材で撮影された貴重なジャジューカの最新映像と音 出演：サラーム海上 (よろずエキゾ風物ライター/DJ) ゲスト：赤塚りえ子 (現代美術家) 料金：￥2,000 (1ドリンク付き) 日時：2013年10月5日(土) 18:30開場/19:00開演 場所： 渋谷UPLINK FACTORY 〒150-0042 東京都渋谷区宇田川町37-18 トツネビル1-2F tel. 03-6825-5503 |
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Master Musicians of Joujouka Festival 20-22 June 2014 booking is now open
The Master Musicians of Joujouka Festival 20-22 June 2014 Booking is now open.
For more info see http://www.joujouka.org/the-festival/more-about-the-festival-and-booking/
Booking now
For more info see http://www.joujouka.org/the-festival/more-about-the-festival-and-booking/
Booking now
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