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Dreamachines available now

November 1, 2012, 4:19 pm
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For the first time in a half century, 500 Limited Edition Dreamachines based on Brion Gysin’s original specifications are now available.

Designed in Canada, The Dreamachine also functions as a stationary Table Lamp. It is made of museum quality Stainless Steel, with North American or European electrical adaptation, rotating at 78rpm / 10hz corresponding with Alpha Brainwaves. Product details here.

At this time, Dreamachines are only available through dreamachine.ca distributed internationally by Innovative Integrated Solutions. Shipping details here

Please joujouka@gmail.com with your Questions.
Not for use by children and not for use by people with problems associated with flicker or flash photography eg epileptics.
Dreamachine US or European
Note that buying directly from Master Musicians of Joujouka websites helps the Master Musicians of Joujouka and  the village through a substantial donation from Brion Gysin Dreamachine.

Choose either US/Canada or Europe on drop down menu below
Price $399 plus $50 shipping USA and Canada
$399 plus $150 shipping to all other places ie Japan, Europe, Australia etc etc ie The Rest of the World Note there are two options either 110v or 240v .
Not for sale to under 18 year olds and see disclaimer regarding usage and medical

Dreamachines 4 options globally



ANY QUESTION EMAIL JOUJOUKA@GMAIL.COM
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Material:  Brushed Stainless Steel
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Global Voltage: Voltage: 240v AC (European Union, Russia, Australia, Africa, China, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile)
The bulb required is an incandescent light bulb with E27 (Edison 27 mm) male screw base and is not included with the product.
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The oldest Master Musician Mallim Ali Abdeslam El Attar passes away

November 3, 2012, 4:55 am
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Mallim Ali Abdeslam El Attar, the oldest Master Musician passed away today at 9.30 am in Joujouka. Mallim Ali was 103 years old. He was the last surviving Master Musician who had played at Hamri and Brion Gysin's 1001 Nights in Tangier form 1954, and in the 1960s he played for Brian Jones recording the seminal Brian Jones presents the Pipes of Pan at Joujouka. He also recorded for Ornette Coleman and was leader of the Master Musicians of Joujouka in the 1980s.
 His nephew Ahmed El Attar is the current leader of Master Musicians of Joujouka.
He will be missed by all the people of Joujouka.
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Brion Gysin Dreamachine launch London 24 Nov with two new Joujouka films

November 22, 2012, 4:37 pm
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DREAMACHINE
Saturday 24th November 2012

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“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!


> > Line Up < <


Music

Robert Hampson's Music for Dreamachines
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 Music for Dreamachines 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
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November 26, 2012, 6:29 pm
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  • 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
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Master Musicians of Joujouka Festival 14-16 June 2013 last places booking now

March 24, 2013, 5:51 pm
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The last few places for the Master Musiicans of Joujouka Festival 14-16 June 2013 are booking now at http://www.joujouka.org/the-festival/more-about-the-festival-and-booking/

Since 2008, the annual festival at Joujouka has taken place in June every summer and offers a unique opportunity to spend three days with the Master Musicians. Unlike any other, ours is a true micro-festival which has received rave coverage from Mojo, The Guardian, Liberation, the BBC, Al Jazeera and The Irish Times.

Our concept

The Festival is all about offering a very small group of people the opportunity to live in Joujouka with the Masters as your hosts and experience the music in the village and spectacular landscape in which it belongs. People who speak French, Arabic and English and who have long, strong connections with the village are on hand to answer questions and make you feel as at home as possible.
Because of the nature of the Festival, numbers have to be strictly limited to 50 people and this means it’s essential to book early if you want to have this incredible experience.

Flying to Morocco

If you’re only coming to Morocco for the Festival, the easiest thing to do is to fly to Tanger and take the train from Tanger Ville, a short taxi ride from the centre of Tanger. A taxi from Tanger to Joujouka costs 100 MAD.
Should you be travelling in Morocco, Fez and Casablanca are four hours from El Ksar El Kebir, the nearest town to Joujouka, by train. Marrakesh is eight hours. Don’t fly to Agadir – there are no direct train connections.

Getting to Joujouka

We collect you at El Ksar El Kebir train station and return you when the festival is over. The station is around an hour from Joujouka.
The Moroccan train service is actually pretty good and very cheap. You can find train times at www.oncf.ma, the website of the national rail network.

How long is the festival?

Due to high demand, we only offer three-day tickets for the full festival but if you really want to experience Joujouka and can only come for a shorter period of time, contact us and we’ll see what we can do.

What the ticket price includes

The Masters play for you and the village every night of the Festival on the stage which was purpose built for them and they spend most of the days playing. Music is part of the fabric of Joujouka and the essence of your experience.
Your ticket includes transport from the railway station, three nights’ accommodation in the Masters’ homes, all your meals and drinks for the three days of the festival and breakfast on the day you leave. Alcohol is strictly prohibited.
All accommodation arrangements will be made for you well before you arrive in Joujouka and, don’t worry, you won’t be sharing a room with strangers.
One of the great treats of the Festival is the opportunity to enjoy home cooked Moroccan food, which is delicious. If you’re a vegetarian or vegan, no problem. Your hosts will often prepare snacks, which are meals in themselves.


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Master Musicians of Joujouka Festival 20-22 June 2014 booking is now open

June 26, 2013, 1:59 pm
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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


Master Musicians of Joujouka Festival 20-22 June 2014

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10.5 Sat. エキゾ夢紀行 ジャジューカ2013！渋谷UPLINK FACTORY

October 2, 2013, 1:35 pm
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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ジューカ編！

ローリング・ストーンズの故ブライアン・ジョーンズをはじめ、古今東西のアーティストを惹きつけていたモロッコの宗教音楽ジャジューカ。そんなジャジューカに魅せられた現代美術家、赤塚りえ子に誘われ、サラームも毎年6月にジャジューカ村で開催される、観衆50人限定、世界最小の音楽祭ジャジューカ・フェスティバルに行ってきまスタ！
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響をたっぷりお楽しみ頂けます！　アップリンクの大スクリーンと立体音響スピーカーで体感するジャジューカに東京都民もトランス必至デス！

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
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3 Photo essays by Sunny Suits and 1 by Arian Fariborz photographers and writers inspired at Master Musicians of Joujouka Festival 2013

November 2, 2013, 4:01 am
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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



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/
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LA Review of Books feature on Master Musicians of Joujouka Festival

May 19, 2014, 7:06 am
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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
The Master Musicians of Joujouka all rights Piper Mavis


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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Video of Boujeloud at Master Musicians of Joujouka Festival 2013

May 22, 2014, 3:36 am
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 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/
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One for the early birds official booking opens 31 June 2014 MMOJFestival2015

June 27, 2014, 3:00 pm
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For the early birds official booking opens 31 June 2014.

Master Musicians of Joujouka Festival 5-7 June 2015
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Borrughs 100 Joujouka Boujeloud 15 Nov before European Beat Network Conference in Tangier Burroughs100 Nov 2014

August 24, 2014, 1:45 pm
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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.




Article on the festival by Paul Trynka in The Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/africa/morocco-follow-the-sound-of-the-beats-9713787.html 
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The Master Musicians of Joujouka Festival explored by The Independent UK. 2015 Booking now open!

September 5, 2014, 1:14 pm
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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.


Mallim Ali Abdeslamn Attar with the Master Musicans of Joujouka at the Brioan Jones 40th Anniversary in Joujouka 2008
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.
It's a provocative, powerful performance. But it's fragile and endangered, too. "

"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 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/

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 programmes 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) 
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Dates for Master Musicians of Joujouka Festival 2013 7-9 June

June 15, 2012, 7:53 am
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Guests at the 2012 Master Musicians of Joujouka festival at the Sanctuary of Sidi Ahmed Schiech Photo Victoria Stevenson 

Boujeloud 10 June 2012 photo Phil Hostak
Si Ahmed Talha who stars in  the new Hurtado brothers Movie
"Jajouka, quelque chose de bon vient vers toi"  Photo Phil Hostak 
Thanks to everyone who attended this year's Master Musicians of Joujouka Festival in their village in Morocco. It was the most successful festival to date with three days and nights of music, food and dancing.
The 2013 edition which marks the 45th Anniversary of Brian Jones recording Brian Jones presents the Pipes of Pan at Joujouka (Rolling Stones Records 1971) takes place 7-9 June 2013 Booking will open soon.
You can see more photos form the 2012 edition on our facebook page https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.394588020578893.78792.105892372781794&type=1
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preview track Master Musicians of Joujouka new LP Into the Ahl Srif limited edition of 1000 available 18 April

April 12, 2015, 2:19 pm
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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
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Record Store Day Special Release 1000 vinyl LPs Master Musicians of Joujouka Into the Ahl Srif

April 17, 2015, 1:45 pm
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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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"Most Exclusive Dance Party in the World" Master Musicians of Joujouka Festival dates for 2016 15-17 June

June 22, 2015, 5:22 pm
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The Master Musicians of Joujouka Fetsival will take place from 15-17 June and is booking now on www.joujouka.org.

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Master Musicians of Joujouka Festival 15-17 July 2016

According to Rolling Stone magazine  the Master Musicians of Joujouka's micro festival is the Most Exclusive Dance Party in the World

see Suzanne Greber's

Inside the Oldest, Most Exclusive Dance Party in the World
JoujoukaRead more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/inside-the-oldest-most-exclusive-dance-party-in-the-world-20150612#ixzz3dq9RjJCQFollow us: @rollingstone on Twitter | RollingStone on Facebook
High in the southern Rif mountains of northern Morocco, just before midnight, a buzz begins to radiate through the groups of sprawled attendees decked out in colorful robes, hippie skirts and flowing Western clothes. Wordlessly we edge up from supine to seated, and rearrange ourselves in casual semicircles, all eyes on the 13 men in ceremonial brown djellabas parading up the front of the stage, which is to say the carpeted chill-out area of a three-sided tent done up in red and green tribal fabric.



SIDEBARBrian Jones Rolling StonesBrian Jones: Sympathy for the Devil »Horn squeals and drum taps puncture the silence, come faster and gradually knit into melody and rhythm. A yowl of high-pitched ghaita horns pierces the air, reverberating from every direction, despite the lack of walls. Five different kinds of drums thunder into a rhythm, then syncopate and alternate, creating layers of polyrhythms.
Almost involuntarily, people make their way to their feet and begin dancing to the pounding drums, the energy among the audience escalating until it's reached the same fever pitch as the players'. And just when it seems like the music is reaching a climax, rhythms change, horns shift gears and the tsunami of sound starts to recede and slowly build all over again.
This continues for a couple hours, until just like that, the music stops. Dancers inch their way to their spots on the carpet as the musicians, still glued to their chairs, ritualistically refill their spindly wooden Sebsi pipes and smile beatifically at one other and at the audience, who are flashing Cheshire cat grins right back at them.
Welcome to the eighth annual Master Musicians of Joujouka "micro" music festival; held in the stunningly isolated Ahl Srif region of Morocco's Rif Mountains, it has become a destination event for impassioned fans around the globe. Each year, a growing number of musicians, world-music devotees and the curious stumble upon this tiny gathering (ticket sales are strictly limited to 50), many returning annually. They come to watch and dance to the village's 15 or 20 master (or malikim in Arabic) musicians performing the tribe's traditional music.
In the early 1950s, the Masters were renowned in their tribal region, but not much beyond. All that changed when writer Paul Bowles and Canadian artist Brion Gysin, based in the expat mecca of Tangier, stumbled upon the MMJ at a Sufi festival, fell in love with the music and befriended the Masters through their painter friend Mohamed Hamri, who had familial ties to Joukouka.
By making the MMJ the house band at their Tangier restaurant, Gysin and Hamri introduced them to the likes of Timothy Leary, William Burroughs and other American beats, as well as the Rolling Stones, which then included guitarist Brian Jones. Jones, instantly enamored, went on to produce their first album, Brian Jones Presents the Pipes of Pan, just before his death in 1969. Depending which source you believe, either Leary or Burroughs dubbed the MMJ "a 4,000-year-old rock & roll band."
Shortly after that, jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman arrived to record with the Masters. In the 1980s, they played at England's Glastonbury Festival and elsewhere on a wild three-month tour. Slowly they built an international following, which came to include Frank Rynne from Dublin, who first visited the village in 1994 to produce a record (Joujouka Black Eyes) and has been their manager ever since, producing more albums, organizing tours and, for the past eight years, the festival.
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Music's been an integral part of Joujouka since there's been a Joujouka. Much of the history is shrouded in the same mist that rings the mountain landscape every morning and after it rains. But there's consensus about the arrival of 15th-century Sufi saint Sidi Ahmed Schiech from Persia or Spain (a likely refugee of the Inquisition), who wrote music that had the power to heal disturbed minds. Today's Masters are said to be able to heal through that same music.
Then there's Boujeloud, a Pan-like half-goat man who's known throughout Morocco, and who, according to myth, gave the gift of flute music to the master musicians. Every spring, he would come out of his cave and dance during the "feast week" that honored the Sufi saint, and bring fertility. The man who's played this shamanic role for the past 47 years is an unassuming villager named Mohamed Hatmi. If you passed him on the dirt road, you might dismiss him as a simple man with little opportunity for self-expression. You would be very, very wrong.
Dressed in goatskin from head to knee, wearing a woven witchy hat and brandishing swaths of tree branches, gyrating onstage to the band's cacophonous fusillade, Hatmi-as-Boujeloud is larger than life. His hips operate independently from the rest of his perhaps four foot, 10 inch frame, and he seems to be plugged into some infinite energy source. He thrashes musicians and when he races up to children in the audience, the blood drains from their faces as they flee in terror.
As Joujouka's musical tradition has evolved from its tribal roots into an international concern, two factions have emerged who call themselves the Master Musicians. One group, led by Bachir Attar, whose father was the leader during the Jones era and who no longer resides in the village, has spent decades blocking the efforts of the local contingent (currently led by the bass drummer Ahmed el Attar) to call themselves the Masters and perform as such. It's been challenging for them, but ironically, has led to greater exposure and acclaim.
As Rynne puts it in his unmistakable brogue, "The festival began to give the Master Musicians of Joujouka a voice and a place where they could show people that they were truly the masters of their village and their music. For their own community, it shows the younger generation that there is a future in the music, as each year people come from across the world and show devotion to their parents' playing, culture and hospitality. And they want it to continue. They feel this music in their hearts; it's in their blood."
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/inside-the-oldest-most-exclusive-dance-party-in-the-world-20150612#ixzz3dq9CZCbx


BOOK NOW for 15-17 July 2016 with drop off Monday 18th July WWW.JOUJOUKA.ORG




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Rolling Stone feature on Master Musicians Of Joujouka Festival 2015

October 24, 2015, 4:16 pm
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Brion Gysn centenary

January 23, 2016, 5:05 am
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Boujeloud dances in Joujouka/jajouka by Brion Gysin 1958

Januray 19th 2016 was Brion Gysin's 100th birthday. Gysin was the mentor of The Master Musicians of Joujouka/Jajouka and the Moroccan artist Mohamed Hamri who ensured the Master Musicians form his family and tribe Ahl Srif came to world attention.
In the early 1960s Hamri brought William S. Burroughs to the village and there are many references to the Masters, Hamri and Boujeloud, styled Pan by Burroughs and Gysin.


Brion Gysin back left with the Masters in performance 1968-9

2016 will see many events globally celebrating Brion Gysin Stay tuned for more info. The Master Musicians of Joujouka Festival 15-17th July will celebrate Brion Gysin and his connection with the village and the music. For more info email joujouka@gmail.com

Boujeloud by Brion Gysin 1958
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The Master Musicians of Joujouka live Centre Pompidou Paris 14 Sept 2016

July 20, 2016, 7:54 am
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 The Master Musicians of Joujouka are proud to announce that they will appear at  Centre Pompidou Paris 14 Sept. 2016 as part of the Beat Generation exhibition in the Beaubourg. Tickets  18 euro.....


More info on Beat Generation  https://www.centrepompidou.fr/id/c58Xyrx/r95XLR6/fr
Master Musicians on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/user/mmojoujouka
Joujouka est un village isolé situé dans la région Ahl Srif, au nord du Maroc, où se crée cette musique remarquable issue d’une tradition soufi millénaire. En 1951, l’artiste Brion Gysin découvre cette musique à Tanger. Ebloui, il affirme vouloir l’écouter tous les jours pour le reste de sa vie, et la partage avec William S. Burroughs, qui les appelle un « groupe de rock n’ roll vieux de 4000 années ». Le pouvoir hypnotique et transcendantal de cette musique fascine les personnalités de la Beat Generation et alimente leurs recherches artistiques. Cette rencontre interculturelle donnera lieu à plusieurs collaborations musicales, dont un célèbre enregistrement avec Brian Jones des Rolling Stones en 1969.

En écho à l’exposition Beat Generation, douze musiciens et un danseur interprètent ce soir cette puissante expérience polyrythmique aux frontières de la transe. Les douze musiciens sur scène – dont sept ghaita, un instrument à vent – sont accompagnés d’un danseur qui incarne le rôle de Boujelod, une figure chamanistique, mi-chèvre, mi-homme, associée aux rites de fertilité, qui apporte le don de la musique, à travers une expression corporelle intense.

The Master Musicians of Joujouka : Ahmed El Attar; Mustapha El Attar; El Khalil Radi; Abdeslam Boukhzar; Ahmed Talha; Abdeslam RRtoubi; Abdellah Ziyat; Ali Ezouglali; El Touhami Talha; Mohamed El Attar; Mohamed Mokhchan; Mohamed El Hatmi; Ahmed Talha 
Producteur : Frank Rynne / The Master Musicans of Joujouka
Producteur délégué : Rikki Stein / Calm Before The Storm Ltd. 
Remerciements : Ministère de la culture, Province de Larache, Royaume du Maroc et le Caid de Tatoft.
Organisateur : DDC / Les Spectacles vivants, Serge Laurent
Link for tickets http://billetterie.centrepompidou.fr/Offres.aspx 
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