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Discography of Music of The Master Musicians of Jajouka and Bachir Attar (LP and CD recordings)

       
 

The Master Musicians of Jajouka with Talvin Singh

Bachir Attar and the Jajouka musicians collaborated with Talvin Singh to produce a transcontinental rhythmic trance classic. Fully integrated music.

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  Master Musicians of Jajouka: Apocalypse Across the Sky

North African pre-psychedelic mind explorations. Classic digital multitrack field recordings from Jajouka. Axiom/Island Records, 1992. Produced by Bill Laswell.

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Apocalypse Across the Sky is also available on Apple's iTunes.

  Brian Jones presents The Pipes of Pan at Jajouka

The original Jajouka recording made by Rolling Stones founder Brian Jones, reissued by The Rolling Stones in 1995 on Point Music. A heady concoction of hypnotic rhythms and psychedelic sound treatments.

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Master Musicians of Jajouka: The Primal Energy that is the Music and Ritual of Jajouka, Morocco

LP released in 1974 Adelphi Records, Inc., this music by the Master Musicians was recorded in Jajouka during the of summer 1972. (Produced by Joel Rubiner, with special thanks to Brion Gysin and Robert Palmer).

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  Bachir Attar: The Next Dream

Tribal music from Jajouka, Morocco in North Africa brought into the 21st century. A trance excursion into the past. (Producer: Bill Laswell)

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  Nicky Skopelitis: Ekstasis

Bachir Attar collaborated in 1993 with Nicky Skopelitis on two mind-blowing tracks in the CD album Ekstasis, produced by Bill Laswell.

  Lost in the the Translation: Axiom Ambient

Music for the inner cinema. Contains "Flash of Panic" an ambient sound sculpture of Jajouka recordings.

  Bachir Attar in New York with Elliot Sharp

Bachir Attar downtown with the musician Elliott Sharp in New York. Improvisation meets North African tradition.
 

  Ornette Coleman: Dancing in Your Head

This classic includes the track "Midnight Sunrise", recorded by Ornette Coleman with assistance from writer-clarinetist Robert Palmer in Jajouka, Morocco in 1973. Originally released on LP by A&M Records, it was re-released on CD by Verve Music Group in April 2000.

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  The Rolling Stones: Steel Wheels

The Master Musicians of Jajouka and Bachir Attar recorded "Continental Drift" with The Rolling Stones (Mick Jagger, Ron Wood and Keith Richards) in the summer of 1989 at le Palais ben Abbou in Tangier, Morocco. Steel Wheels was first released in LP format in August 1989. The audio CD version was released by Virgin Records America in July1994. The BBC simultaneously filmed a documentary The Rolling Stones in Morocco, including Mick Jagger visiting and talking with Bachir Attar in Jajouka.

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    Jajouka Between the Mountains

The legendary musicians of Morocco conjure up the primeval spirit of Pan in a musical tour-de-force. Tracks include: "My God My Love Has Come", "Bughudia" and "The Real Long Night Is Jajouka".  WOMAD/Real World Records, 1996 (Producers: Cherie Nutting, Eric Sanzen and Steve Carnaby).

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  The Cell (film music performed by the Master Musicians)

In 2000, Bachir Attar and the Master Musicians travelled from their small village in Morocco to London, England to record film music for The Cell. The music was orchestrated and conducted by Howard Shore and The London Philharmonic Orchestra with Bachir Attar and The Master Musicians of Jajouka. This music has been described as "a haunting and peculiar sound design for the virtual reality psycho-thriller."

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