muzycy:
Mohamed El Attar - Rhaita and Lira
Mustapha El Attar - drummer
Ahmed El Attar - drummer
Ahmed El Bouhsini - Rhaita and lira
Abdeslam Boukhzar - drummer
Abdeslam Errtoubi - Rhaita and lira
El Khalil Radi - drummer
Mohamed Mokhchan - Rhaita and lira
Mujehid Mujdoubi - lira
Abdellah Ziyat - Rhaita and lira
Editor's info:
The Master Musicians of Joujouka are often credited with being the first "World Music" group. The Joujouka music for Boujeloud, or the Father of Skins, is frantic and has several movements which would equate to a symphony or the score of an opera if it were European classical music. The festival and ritual originate in the worship of the God Pan. Pan was evoked in the springtime to ensure the fertility of both the crops and the people. The people of Joujouka have kept this ancient tradition alive to this day. In 1968 Brian Jones the lead guitarist and founder of the Rolling Stones recorded the Master Musicians of Joujouka in their village in the Ahl Srif Mountains in northern Morocco. Jones was introduced to Joujouka music by the Beat Generation painter and inventor Brion Gysin and the Moroccan painter Mohamed Hamri, who was from the village. The LP "Brian Jones presents the Pipes of Pan at Joujouka" (Rolling Stones Records) was released in 1971 and was the last project Jones worked on before his death in 1969. In 1994 Frank Rynne began a two year long project recording the Master Musicians of Joujouka in their village. Sub Rosa released two CDs from these recordings, Joujouka Black Eyes (SR87) and Sufi (SR97) to critical acclaim in 1995 and 1996 respectively. This is the third and final CD from these intimate recordings to be released by Sub Rosa.
Boujeloud In the mythology of the village of Joujouka, Boujeloud is a half-man/half-goat creature who bears a great resemblance to the ancient god Pan. Each year for a week following the Islamic festival of Aid El Kebir (the Big Feast) the musicians enact the pagan-like ritual of Boujeloud. A man sewn into black goat-skins dances wildly while the musicians play a suite of music to both calm the beast and to scare him away. Joujouka music is played on either small bamboo flutes called liras or on the loud oboe-like rhaita and is backed by their primal drumming. The Masters Musicians utilise cir....... więcej