The Master Musicians of Jajouka entered the international spotlight from the unlikely environs of Morocco when they jammed with the late Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones, who thereafter released the venerated 1971 album Brian Jones Presents the Pipes of Pan at Jajouka. The group finally embarked on their first U.S. tour in 1996, garnering press accolades along the way. This latest Jajouka release features the producing, drumming, and DJ skills of the acclaimed Talvin Singh. With Singh's assistance, Bachir Attar and the Master Musicians cleverly mix up organic originals (recorded in the field) with electronica- influenced collaborations (done in the studio), spotlighting both their folkloric history and their brave new future. On several cuts, acoustic instruments such as oboe-like ghaitas, tablas, flute, and conch shell sympathetically share sonic space with edgy rhythm programming, electric bass, and sparingly used keyboards and record scratching. From a production standpoint, the field recordings sound thin compared with their grooving, beefed-up studio counterparts, which are fresher in their ethno-techno and ethno- ambient qualities. That said, the acoustic tracks are historically important to a familial group whose torchbearers are dwindling. Even so, the inclusion of a repetitive 10-minute track of drums and ghaitas is no easy initiation and would have worked better near the album's end rather than as its second cut. Given the mesmerizing vibe that runs through this music, these compositions tend to be circular in nature, but the whole point is to blissfully trance out, and Singh's input generally keeps the album engaging and gives it a strong crossover potential to a hipper, younger audience. Techno fans should dig the nine-minute dance remix at the end. --Bryan Reesman
Product Description
Produced by Talvin Singh and features Bachir Attar.
Master Musicians of Jajouka,Various Artists,Philips,African,Club/Dance,Electronica,Ethnic,Experimental Rock,Int'l & World Music,Jungle/Drum'n'bass,Middle East,Morocco,North Africa,Pop,Traditional,Trance,Trip-Hop,World Music,Worldbeat
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Brian Jones Presents: The Pipes of Pan at Jajouka
The Master Musicians of Jajouka Manufacturer: Philips ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0000040UX Release Date: 1995-09-26 |
Tracks:
- 55
- War Song/Standing & One Half
- Take Me With You My Darling, Take Me With You
- Your Eyes Are Like A Like A Cup Of Tea
- I Am Calling Out
- Your Eyes Are Like A Cup Of Tea (Reprise)
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Brian Jones's trip to Morocco in 1968 included a trip to the mountain village of Jajouka guided by painter Brion Gysin. What he recorded there introduced the world at large to the Master Musicians of Jajouka, initially released in 1971. Their music is based on ritual, but is still playful. The horns, chanting, and drums of this field recording are completely trancelike. It's a shame that phasing and panning has been added to the sound in an attempt to make it even more psychedelic because it stands perfectly well by itself without the effects. (You also have to wonder whether titles like "Your Eyes Are Like a Cup of Tea" are really literal translations from Aramaic). Still, this is perfectly classic stuff, celebrating the weeklong Rites of Pan festival and offering an almost religious experience to the listener. Anyone who doubts that music has the power to transport should begin here. A classic of world music. --Chris NicksonCustomer Reviews:
Instant Classic.......2004-03-17
Many Jajouka records have sprung after this one, some are good and some are not, but this one is a must have.
If you like this music, check out other Berber records and make sure you go to Morocco to attend the various traditional music festivals throughout the year!
"Nothing is true, everything is permitted".......2004-03-10
Take Me With You, My Beloved.......2004-02-25
This music will scare ... many people. Others will be annoyed. Other people will fall in love with it, as I did. To hear this music as it is meant to be heard, you have to give yourself over to it completely, in whatever way that is best accomplished for you. Then you will abe able to hear the relationships of the repeated patterns in the 3 or 4 musical layers. These relationships can be extraordinarily complex, but sound as beautiful as a living arabesque unfolding itself would appear to the eyes.
The purpose of this music is to take you away. You can only find out where you are going if you take the journey.
A fitting memorial to Brian.......2003-02-26
The sounds made in this album send chills up my spine. This album reminds us that not only is the world stranger than we know, it is weirder than we CAN know. Everything is True. Nothing is Forbidden. These tapes will cause cold winds to blow through the canyons of your mind. The state of Pan is that of "Panic", and that is what you hear in these "songs."
Mick Jagger and Keith Richards caused this album to be posthumously released after Brian Jones unfortunate drowning/murder in the swimming pool of the house where A.A. Milne wrote Winnie-the-Pooh. Brian recorded these tapes several months before his death, intending to release them.
The Master Musicians.......2002-09-28
The music is part of an ancient festival that has been linked by anthropologists to the Roman Lupercalia and the truly ancient prehistoric festivals of pan. It celebrates an ancient, pagan-Muslum tradition in the Moroccan village of Jajouka that is detailed in the linear notes by Gysin and Jones. You need to be prepared to appreciate the anthropological context of this music to enjoy it (and although Brian was on a different plane of reality when he recorded this music, he did have a genuine appreciation of the cultural context, as did Keith when he worked with the Master Musicians of Jajouka many years later).
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Apocalypse Across the Sky
The Master Musicians of Jajouka featuring Bachir Attar Manufacturer: Axiom ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000000GAO Release Date: 1992-03-17 |
Tracks:
- Gabahay
- A Habibi Ouajee T'Allel Allaiya
- El Medahey
- Bujloudia 'Bujloudia Dancing With Aisha Qandisha'
- Alalilla 'About The Night'
- The Middle Of The Night
- Bujloudia
- Jajouka Between The Mountains
- Memories Of My Father
- Mohamed Diha Utalla Fiha (Take Care Of Her Or Leave Her)
- Sbar Yagelbi Sbar
- On Horseback
- Talaha L'badro Alaina
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Although they'd recorded for the Rolling Stones' Brian Jones and played with jazz supremo Ornette Coleman, Morocco's Master Musicians had never really been caught in true sonic clarity until producer Bill Laswell visited them in their village of Jajouka to document their music. And clear it is; the interplay of instruments, drums, and voices is captured with stunning fidelity, bringing their particular brand of trance music right into your living room. The musicians, under the leadership of Bachir Attar, are in superb form, doing what's been done for almost as long as history itself. They feel the music, making for a natural flow on Attar's compositions, which sound as old as the Rif Mountains where they're performed. If you want to hear the Master Musicians as they really are, this is the record to buy. --Chris NicksonCustomer Reviews:
Dark, panic-stricken sounds from the mountains of Morrocco.......2000-07-16
The people of Jajouka perform this incredible music in reverance to the Horned God Pan. The tracks range from mellow to manic, but always with a dark tinge. They use a type of horn that they play with sustained notes, nice and eerie sounding. And of course, rhythms to danse yourself into a frenzy.
This is some of the finest ritualistic music I've ever heard. Check out their other CDs as well.
Endurance Music.......1998-05-18
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The Master Musicians of Jajouka
The Master Musicians of Jajouka Manufacturer: Genes Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000003TK7 Release Date: 1995-11-28 |
Tracks:
- Prayer
- Sidi Hamid Sherk
- Waving
- Jajouka Black Eyes
- Brain Jones
- Jajouka Black Eyes
- Teasing Boujeloud
- Jajouka Black Eyes
- Brain Jones
- Boujeloud
- Boujeloud
- Boujeloud
Album Description
This is considered the definitive recording of this legendary, historic ensemble."When this album was recorded, during the summer and fall of 1972, the Master Musicians were confronting the survival struggle head on. Brian Jones Presents the Pipes of Pan at Jajouka had been released the year before and had done little to improve the lot of the community. The musicians were determined to reach an audience in the West and it was decided at the outset that the extended ritual music which was captured by Jones, and which is so overwhelming under a full moon with bonfires blazing, lost much of its power and purpose when transferred to records. Accordingly, the musicians collapsed their long forms (which are rather like infinitely expandable telescopes) and set about putting concise statements of their heritage on tape...the tune 'Jajouka Black Eyes' is a particularly effective example of the spiritual and psychic powers of the rhaitas. Toward the end of the piece one player hits a continuous drone (maintained by circular breathing, in which the musician blows out and breathes in at the same time, storing air in his lungs as if they were bags of a bagpipe) while the other inserts graceful, semi-improvised punctuations. The horns naturally create many partials or overtones and when two or more play together, as here, these almost sub-audible harmonics build stacked celestial structures which seem to be related to ideas of mathematical perfection deriving from ancient Arabic numerology. In fact, one rhaita piece represents 'the perfection of the factors' and would probably tell us a great deal about the sciences of antiquity if we had a Rosetta Stone to help us decipher its meaning." - Robert Palmer
Customer Reviews:
Not as good as the first one.......2004-03-17
Another gem for my Middle East music collection ~!.......2003-02-28
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The Master Musicians of Jajouka Featuring Bachir Attar
The Master Musicians of Jajouka Featuring Bachir Attar Manufacturer: Philips ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00004TVUV Release Date: 2000-08-29 |
Tracks:
- Up To The Sky, Down To The Earth
- The Truth Forever
- Searching For Passion
- Taksim
- You Can Find The Feeling
- The Blessing For The World From God Only
- Jamming In London
- The House Of Baraka
- Above The Moon
- The Magic Of Peace
- The Magic Of Peace (Remix)
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The Master Musicians of Jajouka entered the international spotlight from the unlikely environs of Morocco when they jammed with the late Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones, who thereafter released the venerated 1971 album Brian Jones Presents the Pipes of Pan at Jajouka. The group finally embarked on their first U.S. tour in 1996, garnering press accolades along the way. This latest Jajouka release features the producing, drumming, and DJ skills of the acclaimed Talvin Singh. With Singh's assistance, Bachir Attar and the Master Musicians cleverly mix up organic originals (recorded in the field) with electronica- influenced collaborations (done in the studio), spotlighting both their folkloric history and their brave new future. On several cuts, acoustic instruments such as oboe-like ghaitas, tablas, flute, and conch shell sympathetically share sonic space with edgy rhythm programming, electric bass, and sparingly used keyboards and record scratching. From a production standpoint, the field recordings sound thin compared with their grooving, beefed-up studio counterparts, which are fresher in their ethno-techno and ethno- ambient qualities. That said, the acoustic tracks are historically important to a familial group whose torchbearers are dwindling. Even so, the inclusion of a repetitive 10-minute track of drums and ghaitas is no easy initiation and would have worked better near the album's end rather than as its second cut. Given the mesmerizing vibe that runs through this music, these compositions tend to be circular in nature, but the whole point is to blissfully trance out, and Singh's input generally keeps the album engaging and gives it a strong crossover potential to a hipper, younger audience. Techno fans should dig the nine-minute dance remix at the end. --Bryan ReesmanAlbum Details
Produced by Talvin Singh and features Bachir Attar.Customer Reviews:
Give it a listen or two..........2002-05-04
Give it a listen or two..........2002-05-04
Give it a listen or two..........2002-05-04
lost potential.......2001-06-01
Successful downtempo trip to Morocco........2000-09-10
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Master Musicians of Jajouka (Arabic) Japanse Release
Manufacturer: Point Music Japan ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0006GTDEC |
Product Description
"To the Pure, all thngs are Pure"... Arabic proverb. 12 tracks.
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Jajouka Between the Mountains
The Master Musicians of Jajouka Featuring Bachir Attar Manufacturer: Womad Select ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00000F1F3 Release Date: 1996-06-18 |
Tracks:
- My God My Love Has Come
- Bughudia
- The Real Long Night Is Jajouka
Customer Reviews:
The Real Long Night.......2004-04-13
But none of that would matter if the Musicians weren't feeling it, and they are feeling it very deeply here. You can tell that they are presenting the audience witnessing this concert with a true gift. At very least, it's their most joyful recording.
The Master Musicians of Jajouka are planning a new release for later in 2004. Be sure to look for it.
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Bets Ov Volume 1
hop-frog's drum jester devotional Manufacturer: Urck Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000ORMU7K |
Product Description
Debut album from hop-frog's drum jester devotional, a member of the hop-frog kollectiv. "tabla samples, moroccan flutes or eastern melodies. Washes of vocals from Gypsies, Indians or some other corner of the world-this is true one-world music"-Vital Weekly. Compared to Muslimgauze, Sun City Girls, Bill Laswell, Tabla Beat Science. Experimental, Post-Asiatic, MIDI-Eastern, Broken-Dub Madness! "one of the best dance albums of the year"-Animal Psi
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Brian Jones Presents: The Pipes of Pan at Jajouka
The Master Musicians of Jajouka Manufacturer: Polygram Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000008QOZ Release Date: 1996-03-19 |
Tracks:
- 55 [Hamsa Oua Hamsine]
- War Song/Standing + One Half [Kaim Oua Nos]
- Take Me With You Darling, Take Me With You [Dinimaak a Habibi Dinimaak]
- Your Eyes Are Like a Cup of Tea [Al Yunic Sharbouni Ate]
- I Am Calling Out [L'afta]
- Your Eyes Are Like a Cup of Tea (Reprise) [Reprise with Flute]
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Harmony & Interplay - Ensembles - Global Meditation
Gnawa Musicians Of Marrakesh , Javanese Gamelan Orchestra , Musicians Of The Gambia , Master Musicians Of Jajouka , Sali Sidibe , Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan , U Srinvas , Soliman Gamil , and Hendry Saimo with Krido Suworo Manufacturer: Ellipsis Arts ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000ENQW5A |
Product Description
Harmony & Interplay - Ensembles - Global Meditation // 1. Chabako - Gnawa Musicians Of Marrakesh 2. Suling/Degung Instrumental - Javanese Gamelan Orchestra 3. Hamaba - Musicians Of The Gambia 4. A Habibi Ouajee T'Allel Allaiya - Master Musicians Of Jajouka 5. Wale Gnouma Don - Sali Sidibe 6. Haq Ali Ali Haq - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan 7. Ghananayakam - U Srinvas 8. Sufi Dialogue - Soliman Gamil 9. Kuda Lumping - Hendry Saimo with Krido Suworo
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Jajouka Between the Mount
Master Musicians of Jajou Manufacturer: Mfs ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00000B0OO Release Date: 1996-05-05 |
Rock Music:
- Meine Hohepunkte [Import]
- Michel Fugain - Les Plus Belles Chansons [Import]
- Midnight Flight [Import]
- Migration [Import]
- Mino-nibaa Abinoojiins: Native American Lullabies
- Nomad Soul
- O Samba da Minha Terra [Import]
- Ondekoza
- Paka Ua (Raindrops)
- Pasión [Import]
Recommended Music:
Sta for Vln & Pno Op 3 / Fantastic Etudes Op 4
Tchaikovsky: Seasons Op37; Piano Sonata in G Op37
Flood [Original recording remastered] [Import]
Right of Way [Enhanced] [Extra tracks] [Import]
Stickin' to the Plan, Vol. 1 [Explicit Lyrics]
Solar - Serie Ao Vivo [Import]