From Weds 13th July anyone who is coming to the festival can contact Frank on the Moroccan local number +212682647732
Brion Gysin Centenary
Today 19 Jan 2016 is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Brion Gysin the mentor and friend of the Master Musicians of Joujouka/Jajouka. he invented the Cut-Up Method of writing for William Burroughs. In the 1950s he fell in love with the Masters and with the painter form the village Mohamed Hamri he helped the Masters in any way he could while he lived. He owned with hamri the 1001 Nights in tangier where the musicians played in groups of 15 for 2 weeks at a time. he loved Hamri and the Masters.
In his diaries he talks of Hamri and the Masters all the time including when Brian Jones came to record:
August 1968
1 – Thursday [Tanger]
To Jajouka with: Brian Jones, Suki, Hamri, Targuisti,[..] & George the Engineer from Olympic.
February 1969
1 – Saturday [Tanger]
Hamri’s great show.
Gave Hamri 17.500 francs.
The governor came & said:
“What difference would it possible
make that I buy this picture or that one?
Hamri, you are the star of Moroccan
painters! I will see that all of these
are sold. I’ll just call some of the
bad boys in town in here and I’ll
tell them: Buy this! Buy that!
[…]
RIP Brion Gysin you are still talked about your little blue hills of the Ahl Srif
Master Musicians of Joujouka Festival featured in Rolling Stone
The 8th edition of the Master Musicians of Joujouka Festival took place 5-7 June in their villlage in Morocco. Suzanne Gerber covered the festival for Rolling Stone magazine. You can read the article here http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/inside-the-oldest-most-exclusive-dance-party-in-the-world-20150612
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