Master Musicians of Joujouka
The Master Musicians of Jajouka (initially mostly Master Musicians of Joujouka ) are a traditional ensemble of musicians from the village of Joujouka in the Ahl- Srif mountains of the southern Rif Mountains in Morocco, which is internationally known since about 1970 and has produced several albums.
History
In the music of the Master Musicians of Jajouka, parts of an old Pan - cult reflect. According to tradition, the music was given to the village musicians from the goat-god Boujeloud, the " Father of Terror ". To date, this music is played at a local fertility festival: Lured by the polyrhythmic interplay of cylindrical drums ( T'bol ), the small cup drums ( Tarija, similar to a darbuka ), the hovering oboe -like Ghaitas and bamboo flutes ( Lira ) comes in each year of Boujeloud as a woman dressed in goatskins and equipped with rods figure with black painted face from his cave, and bring the village of Joujouka again fertility. The music of the village musicians " builds up over hours to a trance, the melodies are created in loops. Up to 50 musicians are involved. "
The musicians and many residents of Joujouka belong to a local Sufi brotherhood, after, according to legend is said to have visited around the 8th century Sidi Ahmed Sheikh, an Islamic missionary from Persia, the village and converted to Islam. Spiritual Center of the musicians whose tomb ( Qubba ) in the center. Only a son of a member of the ensemble may be new Master Musician. In the 17th century they were the court musicians of the Alawites and played in the Sultan palaces on festive occasions and in prayers. In 1912, the members of the ensemble received a license which gave them a special status and she gave birth from work as farmers. When, after 1930 many of them were drafted in the Spanish army, threatened their traditions collapse. The music of Joujouka moved into the 1950s, the attention of the writer Paul Bowles, William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin up, the saw to their published descriptions that musicians such as Brian Jones, Ornette Coleman or Lee Ranaldo on the spot with the music employed by Joujouka.
Published in 1971, the Rolling Stones on their label the album Brian Jones presents the Pipes of Pan at Joujouka, with the Master Musicians have been known to a wider audience. The recorded music was included in the legendary list Wire The Wire 's " 100 Records That Set the World on Fire (While No One Was Listening ) ". Ornette Coleman developed through the interaction with the musicians of Joujouka his Harmolodics.
The ensemble was divided after the death of Hadji Abdessalam Attar into two groups: In addition to the ensemble, which retained the old name, and is now led by Ahmed Attar, were being led by Bachir Attar Master Musicians of Jajouka, whose musicians partially no longer in the Moroccan village lived. Talvin Singh and Bill Laswell worked with these Master Musicians of Jajouka, which opened in the direction of world music, multiple times ( last in 2012 ) on an international tour and were more albums vorlegten.
In September 2013 Howard Shore released the compilation The Road to Jajouka, on the remixed music of the Master Musicians and was reinterpreted. Stakeholders will include, inter alia, Medeski, Martin & Wood, John Zorn, Ornette Coleman, Flea, Marc Ribot, Howard Shore, Bill Laswell and DJ Logic.
On the other hand play the remaining Master Musicians of Joujouka " the music in a form that would be with the sound different from 20 years ago, but does not adapt to the needs of music stars or commercial producers." They have also produced two albums and rock musicians such as Marianne Faithfull or Jane 's Addiction worked.
Disco Graphical Notes
- Ornette Coleman: Dancing in Your Head (Columbia, 1973/76, only one or two pieces cooperating )
- Master Musicians of Jajouka (1974 )
- Bachir Attar: Apocalypse Across the Sky ( 1992)
- Master Musicians of Jajouka Featuring Bachir Attar (2000)
- The Road to Jajouka (2013 )