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Saturday, November 19, 2011
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
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
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
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
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 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 |
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 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 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.
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.
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| 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
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| The House where Brian Jones stayed in 1968 with well and fig trees by Manno Franco 2009 |
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 |
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 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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Monday, November 14, 2011
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
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
Monday, October 31, 2011
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.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
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.
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Master Musicians of Joujouka perform at International Digital Arts Festival Casablanca 29 October 2011
Joachim Montessuis in performance
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
Friday, September 30, 2011
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.
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
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
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