mercredi 22 juillet 2009

Frank Rynne and the Master Musicians of Joujouka

http://brianjonesjoujoukafestival.blogspot.com/2009/07/blog-post.html





Membership card of Master Musicians of Joujouka/Jajouka/Jahjouka association of Frank Rynne.

Since 1994 Frank Rynne has been a member of the association of the Master Musicians of Joujouka/Serifya Association of the Master Musicians of Jahjouka/Jajouka/Joujouka. This membership carries with it the responsibilities and requirements to treat with and treat all fellow members equally. His representation of the Master Musicians of Joujouka in the West is an elected position and his views and actions are guided by the majority view of the Master Musicians of Joujouka/Jajouka/Jahjouka. It is not a relationship based on the contractual norms of the Western music business but rather, he is a fraternal member of the Master Musician's association.

This membership has set Rynne apart from other westerners who have produced the Master Musicians of Joujouka as he is accepted as an equal in the village but his designated and elected role has been to promote the Master Musician's music and to deal with people outside Morocco on their behalf.



Click on newspaper image below for actual article by Frank Rynne on his introduction to Master Musicians of Joujouka. Click links for text.


A Rolling Stone’s Moroccan odyssey

The Irish Times
22 Jul 2008

WHEN I FIRST visited Morocco in 1994, I took a one-way charter flight to Malaga and a ferry across the Straits of Gibraltar. On one side of the Straits were the burnt hills of Southern Spain, on the other the high colossus of the Rif Mountains. Soon I...read more...

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/features/2008/0722/1216627308850.html


Mojo Article on Matser Musicians of Joujouka Brian Jones 40th Anniversary Festival


No Stone Unturned Frank Rynne and Bachir Attar interviewed re the controversy surrounding the reissue of the Brian Jones presnets the Pipes of Pan Cd in 1995 from the Independent newspaper in the UK Friday, 21 July 1995

Past Masters from National Dubai March 6 2009. Though the Master Musicians disagree with many assertions in the article it is of interest as it is written by an unbiased journalist and musician Jace Clayton.


The Faded Myth of the Goat God
German report on the damage to Joujouka and its future caused by Bachir Attar's controversial activities. 2005

An Interview with Bachir Attar July 9th, 2008 Walrus magazine Claims by Bachir Attar with refutations by Frank Rynne speaking on behalf of the Master Musicians of Joujouka

mercredi 15 juillet 2009

Joujouka : More on the story .....


Mallim Ali Abdeslam El Attar at The Brian Jones 40th Anniversary Festival, Joujouka , Morocco, 29 July 2008.
Photo copyright Jill Furmanovsky/Rockarchive


The oldest musician in Joujouka is Mallim Ali Abdeslam El Attar. Mallim is the name given to a true master of music and Mallim Ali is known as the Master of Joujouka to all. He is the oldest musician from Joujouka and the oldest Attar in the village.


Master Musicians of Jajouka/Joujouka tour booklet 1980. The tour was organised
by Rikki Stein a true friend to the Master Musicians.Mallim Ali top photo on left

Last year he presided over the Brian Jones 40th Anniversary Festival in Joujouka as he did at this year's festival in June. The reverence shown to him by the Masters is evident when they arrive at the musician's house in Joujouka. His presence is always something to be appreciated as a blessing. He is the spiritual leader of the musicians by virtue of his age, his wisdom and his adherence to the saint, Sidi Ahmed Scheich, whose blessings he attributes his longevity to.

At nearly 100 year of age Mallim Ali has had a hard life. In 1936 he was conscripted by General Franco into the Spanish colonial army and was forced to fight in all the battles in the Spanish Civil War. This was an experience that many his generation of Sufi masters in Joujouka endured. He was retained in Spain until the end of World War II and then returned to his native Morocco without pay or pension.

From 1945 onwards he continued to play with The Master Musicians of Joujouka and was a veteran of Hamri's efforts to support the village by bringing the musicians to play on the trains between Ksar El kebir and Tangier, in the International Zone. This was the Interzone of William Burrough's fiction. In the 1950s he played at Brion Gysin and Hamri's restaurant, the 1001 nights in Tangier. This is where William Burroughs first saw the Master Musicians perform. He recalls his playing for Brian Jones with humorous glee. However a sadness also descends on Mallim Ali when he recalls those days to people. He always insists on naming the great masters who played with him who are now dead.

Last year, award winning rock photographer, Jill Furmanovsky, made a series of portraits of Mallim Ali which were published in the Onelife magazine. Other photographs by Jill of the Brian Jones 40th Anniversary Festival in Joujouka have appeared in The Guardian, Dazed and Confused and Mojo . The festival was celebration by the village of jaoujouka/Joujouka of brian Jones visit to record an LP in 1968. The resulting LP "Brian Jones presents the Pipes of Pan at Joujouka" was the first release on Rolling Stones Records in 1971. A small selection of her images from the Brian Jones Festival are available on The Master Musicians Myspace.

This June I brought copies of the magazine to the village and the day before the festival and on 4 June 2009, I presented Mallim Ali with a copy. In the below slide show you can see Mallim Ali looking at the magazine and I really like the photo I took of him with Jill's photo open on a magazine page with his full page portrait. Michael Pollock and his son Marlon were on the porch and Master Musicians Mohamed Mockshan and Radi El Kahil arrive and greet the Master. It is obvious in the photos the reverence that the Masters have for Mallim Ali. I always bring several tubes of prescription eye ointment for him as he has severe eye pain and discomfort. He always blesses me for this small gesture.
Mallim Ali Abdeslam El Attar and Frank Rynne discuss Brian Jones and the recording of Brian Jones presents the Pipes of Pan at Joujouka, (Rolling Stones records 1971) for Zac Assemakis's film on the Brian Jones 40th Anniversary Festival in Joujouka. 29 July 2008.
Photo copyright Jill Furmanovsky/Rockarchive

The day I left Joujouka in June he called me to one side and asked me where was the money gone from the Brian Jones recording and the other records he played on such as the Master Musicians of Jajouka record that Joel Rubiner put out in 1974 and Ornette Coleman's "Dancing in My Head" all of which have been reissue on Cd without any consultation with the Masters.

Sadly the answer is not a mystery as other posts on this blog have revealed. Cherie Nutting , her ex husband Bachir Attar and Joel Rubiner, who runs a successful business in New Mexico selling Moroccan leather, have the answers. Philip Glass's label Point Music reissued the Brian Jones LP in 1995 and no one thought to consult or include Mallim Ali or the other Masters and their families in the remuneration that ensued.





Words and Photos copryright Frank Rynne
Pics of Mallim Ali and Frank Rynne taken by Marlon Pollock

Read Hamri's Open Letter of Protest against the CD reissue of Brian Jones's LP

samedi 11 juillet 2009

The Whirling Dervish

7/18/2009 9:00 PM - 5$ - 21+

Lauren’s b-day show @ Keegan’s

1434 Marcelina Ave, Torrance, California

90501



w/ Headtraffic, Gumshoe Suicides, Ready The Jet, & DJ Kawika



7/22/2009 8:00 PM

IsGoodRadio.com w/jon Hershfield----tune in!



Performance/interview. be sure to also check out

IsGoodMusic.com.



7/24/2009 9:00 PM - FREE - 21+

The Crest

1625 Cabrillo, Torrance, 90501



w/ Electric Children



8/15/2009 9:00 PM - TBD - 21+

The Good Hurt

12249 Venice Blvd, West LA, California 90066

w/ The Spies



The Spies' record release!


master musicians of joujouka

Brion Gysin on The Magic of Joujouka/Jajouka and Boujeloud from Gnaoua Magazine 1964:
http://brianjonesjoujoukafestival.blogspot.com/2009/07/brion-gysin-on-magic-of-joujoukajajouka_09.html

Naked Lunch 50th Anniversary in Paris and William Burroughs The Last Words of Hassan Sabbah:
http://brianjonesjoujoukafestival.blogspot.com/2009/07/naked-lunch-50th-anniversary-and.html

mardi 7 juillet 2009

Noelle Pujol : site, photos and videos

http://noellepujol.free.fr/

Mon nouveau projet l'installation photo et vidéo "Les animaux de Tirana" est en ce moment en partie exposée au Centre d'art Passerelle à Brest dans le cadre de l'exposition collective "en vue… des manières de voir / la nature mise en image et en vitrine" (15 mai-22 août). http://www.cac-passerelle.com/

Elle est aussi visible dans la nouvelle revue en ligne Leucothéa, revue autour de l'oeuvre de Jean-Marie Straub et Danièle Huillet.
Voici le lien :
http://www.revue-leucothea.com/

"Noëlle Pujol a passé trois semaines à Tirana en Albanie dans le cadre d'un programme d'échange artistique. Pour mieux accéder à l'histoire du pays, elle décide de s'appuyer sur la figure animale et plus particulièrement la collection des animaux naturalisés du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de la Rruga Kavajës; c'est un espace ignoré, oublié, préposé à une activité de recherche scientifique et universitaire, aujourd'hui en état de dégradation. Un taxidermiste travaille encore dans son laboratoire. Il continue de porter l'irréalité du lieu de son atelier jusqu'aux salles obscures occupées par la communauté des animaux naturalisés (Le taxidermiste de Tirana). Ici l'animal est non seulement une figure de transition entre l'humain et l'inhumain, le vivant et l'inerte mais aussi porteur d'indices, de directions, d'un régime esthétique des arts où le processus d'hétérogénéité contient une secrète dimension politique.
La vidéo Oiseau en cage montre le seul animal en mouvement devant l'architecture du Muséum, où les bruits de la ville de Tirana viennent se mêler à l'appel à la prière du dernier jour de Ramadan.

La série Nanook à Tirana fait résonner un nom de cinéma (Nanook of the North de Robert Flaherty, 1922) avec l'identité de Fatos Nano, représenté avec une coiffe indienne, ancien premier ministre et président du Parti Socialiste d'Albanie. Sur le mur du Muséum, un graffiti porte l'inscription"NANO IK" (NANO DEHORS) sur lequel un partisan a recouvert la lettre i par la lettre o pour signifier "NANO OK" (NANO OUI).

Avec Taxidermy in process Noëlle Pujol poursuit ici son travail de recherche sur la taxidermie, la figure animale et le politique au Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Berlin.

Jean-Michel Gosselin and Sonofage meetings

Les rencontres de Sonofage : septembre 2009 :
http://sonofages.free.fr/rencontres
Site on MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/sonofages

Frank Rynne : Burrough's Naked Lunch 50th Anniversary in Paris First photos of Plaque unveiling at Beat Hotel 1 July 2009

See the first videos and photos by Frank Rynne of Naked Lunch festival at
http://brianjonesjoujoukafestival.blogspot.com/2009/07/burroughs-naked-lunch-50th-in-paris.html

vendredi 3 juillet 2009

Frank Rynne : brian jones RIP radio special



Friday, July 3, 2009
Brian Jones 40th Anniversary special radio Broadcast
Brian Jones (28 February 1942 – 3 July 1969)R.I.P.




To commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the untimely death of Brian Jones there is a special radio broadcast featuring Donovan and Julian Jones plus the homage to Brian written by Mohamed Hamri "Brian Jones Joujouka very Stoned".The Master Musicians of Joujouka's thoughts are with Brian and his family on this day.




This is to invite you to listen on-line--- LIVE our web-radio special dedicated to commemorate Brian Jones life and his contribution to the music of the sixties, of course making emphasis in his work with the Stones, Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, his soundtrack, his gingle, his World-music experimentation, etc, etcAgain, you can call us and contribute to this programme, we are trying to get a two-hour special this time. We’re gonna have simultaneous translation to English and to SpanishNow the good news, we’re going to have some very special guests, Donovan, yes the legendary Donovan already confirmed and Julian was invited and we’re waiting his confirmation.




In addition to the best of Brian we’re gonna put some songs dedicated to Brian like “Local Boy Chops Wood” by Donovan and one or two songs by Julian.The appointment is on Friday, 3rd July 2009, we’re gonna be on the local air and on the world wide cyber air!










Phone: +52-(55)-5292-5909


Instant Messenger: obladioblada909@hotmail.com
•Stones Song
•Stones Song
•Degree of Murder (audio extracted from DVD) with Jimmy Page and Nicky Hopkins
•Stones Song
•Rice Crispis Jingle
•Thank you for being there my love a poem by Brian Jones performed by Julian Jones
•"You know my name, look up my number" w/The Beatles
•My Little One w/Jimi Hendrix, Dave Mason and Mitch Mitchell
•Heavy Inside (Julian) a song inspired by and dedicated to Brian
•Local Boy Chops Wood a song composed and performed by Donovan, dedicated to Brian
• Brahim Jones Joujouka Very Stoned (A song dedicated by the MMOJ to Brian)

Donovan and Linda will be on the air, after "Local Boy Chops Wood"

Time Schedule

jeudi 2 juillet 2009

Whirling Dervish: Consumption Twelve June 6th, June 20 The Crest, June 28 Que Sera



This is a late night for the diehard! Silver Factory Studios is also an after-hours venue. We will be performing at 1AM and the venue remains open and serving until 4AM. Drink that energy drink and come on down!
FAC 915 Presents The Cockerspaniels (from Austin Tx), The Modern Time Machines & The Whirling Dervish
Wednesday July 8th - 10PM - $TBDSilver Factory Studios915 mateo St. Los Angeles, Ca 90021
Coming soon:
July 22 - IsGoodRadio.com performance / July 24th - The Crest, Torrance, Ca / August 15th - Good Hurt, Venice, Ca




Yannig: mon nouveau podcast du bizarre ..

Bonjour à tous,Je viens de mettre à jour mon site web et pensais que vous pourriez souhaiter le consulter. Pour vous y rendre, il vous suffit de cliquer sur les liens ci-dessous ou de copier les URL dans votre navigateur web.
liestra
Pour :S'abonner

Ne manquez pas d’aller y jeter un coup d’œil et dites-moi ce que vous en pensez.

mardi 23 juin 2009

Sunday June 28th, The Whirling Dervish LIVE in Long Beach @ Que Sera



QUE SERA

1923 E 7th St Long Beach, CA 90813-5104

(562) 599-61709

PM 5$
COMING SOON:

July 22 - Is GoodRadio.com performance / July 24th - The Crest, Torrance, Ca / August 15th - Good Hurt, Venice, Calast


Yannig: sous le microscope !

Bonjour à tous,

Je viens de mettre à jour mon site web et pensais que vous pourriez souhaiter le consulter. Pour vous y rendre, il vous suffit de cliquer sur les liens ci-dessous ou de copier les URL dans votre navigateur web.
yannig http://web.me.com/adanig/yannig
animalcules

Ne manquez pas d’aller y jeter un coup d’œil et dites-moi ce que vous en pensez.

lundi 22 juin 2009

Jean-Marc: galerie ECRITURES


Galerie écritures


Inauguration de la Galerie ECRITURES
et
Vernissage de l’exposition d’ETE



Jean ADLER
Roland COGNET
Jean ESTAQUE
Pierre LAFOUCRIERE
Yo MARCHAND
Rémy PASTOR


le 1 Juillet 2009 à 19h




1 rue Pierre PETIT 03100 MONTLUCON
galerie.ecritures@live.fr

jeudi 18 juin 2009

Vasha Dadaya on facebook

Vasha's page is at

www.facebook.com/people/Vasha-Dadaya/1247300554

Burroughs Homage, July 1 - 3 - Naked Lunch@50

Bonjour Burroughsians,
With two weeks to go before the Anniversary Homage to William Burroughs starts at the University of London Institute in Paris, we wanted to say that the final programme of events is now up on the special website:
http://nakedlunch.org/events/paris/ OR http://nakedlunch.org/events/paris/francais/
If you have any questions about any part of the programme, please let us know and we will get back to you as quickly as possible.
We hope this will be a truly special event, a tribute to Burroughs that catches some of the spirit of his great book, and we want to thank you in advance for your part in making it happen.
With our best wishes,
Oliver, Andrew, Ian
Oliver Harris, Andrew Hussey, Ian MacFadyen
Dr Oliver Harris
Professor of American Literature
American Studies
Keele University
Staffordshire ST5 5BG
http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/as/staff/harris.htm
o.c.g.harris@ams.keele.ac.uk

The Whirling Dervish LIVE on Saturday night @ The Crest - Torrance, Ca



June, 20 2009 09:00 PM- The Crest - Irvo’s Birthday Show, Free! w/
Plus X, Gumshoe Suicides
1625 Cabrillo, Torrance, California 90501 - FREEA super-duper birthday celebration for Irvo!


COMING SOON:JUNE 28th - Que Sera, Long Beach, CA
JULY 22ND - Performing on IsGoodRadio.com w/ Jon Hershfield
JULY 24th - The Crest, Torrance, Ca
AUGUST 15h - Good Hurt, Venice Beach, Ca

lundi 15 juin 2009

NL@50 in Paris

With the anniversary events at the University of London Institute just 5 weeks away now, we wanted to let you know that updated information about the programme, July 1st to 3rd, is up on our website - http://nakedlunch.org/events/paris/ - and, as well as the scheduled three-day programme, we expect other discussions and events, some entirely impromptu, to happen in parallel. We very much hope you'll be coming along, and really look forward to meeting you.

In the meantime, with our best wishes,

Oliver and Ian

Dr Oliver Harris
Professor of American Literature
American Studies
Keele University
Staffordshire ST5 5BG
http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/as/staff/harris.htm
o.c.g.harris@ams.keele.ac.uk

Interzone report: May 2009

Accueil March-April 2009


Paul O'Donovan: “My Baobab Retreat House”

Hi all,

Blogs :

The blog Interzone news http://interzone-news.blogspot.com/ has been supressed during some days, probably because of an error from a robot. I thought it had definitely gone, but it came back after some days after I complained. In the meantime I had created another one, Interzone news’ blog at http://interzonenews.wordpress.com/ . I am keeping it as a mirror site.
I like the web pages preview on the links at WordPress.
If Zoners want to post their news directly on the blogs, I can add them to the page “authors”.

August: 12th anniversary of Interzone:

It’s been 12 years since this net is working !!! 12 years of monthly reports relating Zoners’ activitis included my own ones.
What shall we do for the occasion ?
I suggest a meeting on internet : the chat of Interzone forum is practical and can welcome a large numer of people without disconnecting. We can use other tools as Skype. Othger suggestions ? If some of you happend to be in France at this time, let me know here.

Interzone compilation :

I have finished to gather the tome of the Time of the Naguals which contains the articles. It is 237 pages thick. The contents is too big to be included in this page, so it’s on line at http://aubert.isa.googlepages.com/articlescontents.htm . It is in an OpenOffice writer file, which I can convert in pdf.
I suggest to send it in pdf through mail to all the zoners who have written in it, for free of course.

Twitter:

I have subscribed at twitter http://twitter.com/ You can follow me there at Izzy 23’s twitter, as well as shocker_TV (Foe) http://twitter.com/shocker_tv and Grazulis (Gary) http://twitter.com/grazulis .
Foe, Gary and I got in touch on the first day of Interzone on August 10th 1997, and we are still in touch, which is absolutely great !

Sites :

Changes to come in free providers :
Changes are going to happen soon in google pages and geocities :
- Googles pages system is going to become Google sites : this concerns the sites Interzone reports and Interzone Galleries. So the adresses will change, and visits to the googlepages.com URL will be redirected to the new sites by Google.
- Geocities :
Geocities new sites are no longer available and the existing sites will be closed later this year. This concerns the sites Interzone Academy , Interzone Library , Rédacteurs Reporters d’Interzone and BD d’Interzone , so a lot of existing pages, and remaking the sites somewhere else would be a real brainstorm due to their size.
A number of Zoners have sites in Geocities. What do you foresee for them ? Is it possible to migrate them to another free space ? Any tip welcome.

Yannig : come to see my web site :
“Hi all,
I have just updated my web site and thought you might like to visit it. To view it you just have to click on the links below or copy them in your navigator
yannig http://web.me.com/adanig/yannig
animalcules http://web.me.com/adanig/yannig/animalcules/animalcules.html
Let me know what you think.” Yannig

Music :

Joujouka festival in the Guardian :
“Hi All,
This year’s festival is on next weekend 5-7 June. There is a nice article in the Guardian today on the Festival :http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/may/29/master-musicians-joujouka-festival-morocco
Best wishes frank 00 353 87 6254901″

Concerts of the Whirling Dervish:
They have been giving a number of concerts in May on 26th the Scene bar in Glendale and on 29th at Alex’s Bar http://www.myspace.com/alexsbarOn June 6th they played at Consumption 12 http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/151752/ . They will play at the Crest, in Torrance, Ca on June 20th , and on the 28th at Que Sera in Long Beach.

Galleries :

Paul O’Donovan’s illustration :
Paul sent a new one , ”My Baobab Retreat House”, on line in Interzone Galleries at http://interzone.galleries.googlepages.com/odonovan57.htm

Exhibitions :

Optical Sound news :

The burning world : http://interzonenews.wordpress.com/2009/06/06/optical-sound-the-burning-world/
http://interzone-news.blogspot.com/2009/06/optical-sound-burning-world.html

New pages on line :

In Interzone sites :

Interzone news’ blog : http://interzonenews.wordpress.com/
Interzone news : http://interzone-news.blogspot.com/
Contents of “The Time of the Naguals” : articles : http://aubert.isa.googlepages.com/articlescontents.htm
Izzy 23’s twitter http://twitter.com/Izzy23
Paul O’Donovan: “My Baobab Retreat House” http://interzone.galleries.googlepages.com/odonovan57.htm

In the other Zoners’ sites :

Shocker_TV ’s twitter : http://twitter.com/shocker_tv
Grazulis’ twitter : http://twitter.com/grazulis
Joujouka festival in the Guardian : http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/may/29/master-musicians-joujouka-festival-morocco
yannig http://web.me.com/adanig/yannig
animalcules http://web.me.com/adanig/yannig/animalcules/animalcules.html

So now, Interzone news between two reports are available at http://interzonenews.wordpress.com/ and http://interzone-news.blogspot.com/
This report is at http://aubert.isa.googlepages.com/reportmay09.htm and the French version is at http://aubert.isa.googlepages.com/reportmay09fr.htm .

Cheers.

Izzy