1968 A Handwritten Account by Bachir Attar of the Arrival of Brian Jones to the Village of Jajouka
A handwritten account, commissioned by Cherie Nutting, by Bachir Attar describing the very first arrival of Brian Jones to the Village of Jajouka in 1968.
November 1972 Letter from The Imperial Khalifa of Tétouan to the Master Musicians of Jajouka
Written to the Master Musicians of Jajouka from The Imperial Khalifa Mohammed Mehdi of Tetouan recognizing the Master Musicians of Jajouka as the pipers of the royal family. Written and bestowed upon Bachir’s father El “Hadj” Abdesalam el Attar at the wedding of Lalla Fatima Zohra in 1972.
July 1989 Letter from Georges Bousquet to the Caid of Tatoft
Written by Georges Bousquet, the head of the French Cultural Center, to the Caid of Tatoft concerning the theft of his possessions during a festival in Jajouka featuring imposter “musicians” calling themselves “Joujouka” under the leadership of Mohamed Hamri. Bachir Attar and the Master Musicians of Jajouka were not involved in this event..
August 1989 Letter from Joel Rubiner to Gene Rosenthal
Written by Joel Rubiner, producer of “The Master Musicians of Jajouka” 1974 Adelphi Records release, to Gene Rosenthal, owner of Adelphi Records, now called “Gene’s CDs”. Mr. Rosenthal has failed to respond to any requests for royalty payments despite the fact that the initial $2000 advance from Adelphi was recouped over 20 years ago.
February 1991 Letter from Paul Bowles to Frederick Robbes
A letter of high recommendation by Paul Bowles of Bachir Attar to Producer Frederick Robbes regarding the proposed filming of the story of Boujeloud to be directed by the Hurtado brothers. The film eventually was shot in 2006.
March 1991 Fax from Timothy Leary to Frederick Robbes
A letter of recommendation by Timothy Leary of Bachir Attar and Cherie Nutting to Producer Frederick Robbes regarding the proposed filming of the story of Boujeloud to be directed by the Hurtado brothers. The film eventually was shot in 2006.
August 1992 Postcard for the “Here to Go” Show in Dublin, Ireland
In 1992, after the band was reunited and all internal conflicts were settled within the brotherhood, a Dublin event was organized that falsely advertised Bachir Attar & The Master Musicians of Jajouka as performers. A Cherie Nutting photo of the group was used without permission and a reference to Jajouka’s recent collaboration with Bill Laswell was included in the advertisement for the show. However, Bachir Attar and the Master Musicians of Jajouka were never invited, contacted, nor did they appear at the event. Instead, an imposter group from the region was passed off as the real thing.
June 1994 To Whom It May Concern Letter from the Consulate General of Morocco
Letter from the Consulate Morocco to “whom it may concern” recognizing Bachir Attar as the leader of the Master Musicians of Jajouka.
November 1994 Letter from William S. Burroughs to Cherie Nutting
Written by William S. Burroughs to Cherie Nutting recognizing Bachir Attar as the “sole rightful inheritor” of the mantle of Leader of the Master Musicians of Jajouka, who are the only rightful “Master Musicians.”
July 1996 Letter from Joel Rubiner to Frank Rynne and Joe Ambrose on Hamri-Joujouka
Written by Joel Rubiner, producer of “The Master Musicians of Jajouka” 1974 Adelphi Records release, to Joe Ambrose and Frank Rynne regarding the history of lies, misinformation and misrepresentation of the Master Musiciains of Jajouka perpetuated by Mohamed Hamri and continued by Frank Rynne and Joe Ambrose. The letter also discusses the illegal use by Frank Rynne of Joel Rubiner’s photograph of William Burroughs, Brion Gysin and Mohamed–Hamri.
Written by Bachir Attar, leader of "The Master Musicians of Jajouka" on May 12, 2009 regarding the misrepresentation and confusion rendered by the faux group calling themselves "The Master Musicians of Joujouka."
September 2009 Video message from the eldest Master Musician of Jajouka, Malim Ali el Attar, concerning "Joujouka."
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During Ramadan 2009, retired Master Musician of Jajouka, Malim Ali el Attar, came to Bachir Attar's house in order to address his misrepresentation by certain individuals who have perpetuated an imposter group called "Joujouka." In the summer of 2008, an Irish outsider came to Jajouka and took many pictures of Ali and used them on their websites and blogs without Ali’s consent, and erroneously claiming Ali supported the "Joujouka" group. In this video, Malim Ali sets the record straight and recalls his long career as a Master Musician of Jajouka under the leadership of both Bachir Attar and Bachir’s father, "Hadj" Abdesalam Attar.
Bachir Attar
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[edit] Attar as the leader of the Master Musicians of Jajouka
Bachir Attar carries on his father's Attar family traditions with a new generation of Master Musicians descended from members of his father's group. They include his brothers Mostapha Attar, Abdellah Attar, and the son of the famous drum master, Mohammed "Berdous" Attar, Other members include Abderrzak el Attar, Mokhtar Jaghdal, and Mohamed Attar, moqqadem of the shrine of Sidi Ahmed Sheikh, and Abdellah Bokhzar all who played with Bachir's father. Hamri was let go as manager in 1972. He had sold the copyright for the music to Brian Jones, and Bachir Attar had to negotiate with The Estate of Brian Jones and The Rolling Stones for the loan of their ancient music for the reissue. The group recorded under the shorter and correct pronunciation of the Moghrebi name "The Master Musicians of Jajouka" on soundtracks for films including((The Cell]],((The Hand of Fatima, 2009 by Augusta Palmer who is the daughter of the late music critic and journalist Robert Palmer, William Burroughs,"A Man Within", directed by Yoni Leyser 2010,Nicolas Roeg's"Bad Timing" 1980.Bertolucci's adaptation of Paul Bowles' novel ((The Sheltering Sky)) 1989,The BBC filmThe Rolling Stones in Morocco 1989,and William Burrough's novel ((Naked Lunch))directed by David Cronenburg 1991.
CD's include Bill Laswell's "Apocalypse Across the Sky"1991, Peter Gabriels' "Jajouka Between the Mountains"1995, appearances with the Rolling Stones on Steel Wheels1989, the second album of the group from 1974 produced by Joel Rubiner entitled "The Master Musicians of Jajouka', and Attar's controversial 1995 reissue of The Pipes of Pan with The Rolling Stones and Brian Jones' Estate with Point (Polygram) records, Brian Jones Presents The Pipes of Pan at Joujouka changed to the correct pronunciation "Jajouka" for consistency.
[edit] Solo Career In addition to his work with Master Musicians of Jajouka, Bachir Attar was granted a Music Composition Fellowship from "The New York Foundation for the Arts"in 1990 for his compositions "Memories of My Father" and "Sounds of New York".He has also recorded a solo album entitled The Next Dream, which was produced in New York City by Bill Laswell in connection with Apocalypse Across The Sky, the album Laswell recorded of the traditional music for his label Axiom. Attar was a guest performer on Nicky Skopelitis's 1993 album, Ekstasis.He also recorded "Bachir Attar in New York with Elliot Sharp" in 1988,and later with Debby Harry and Chris Stein on the "Cash Cow" cd entitled "The Best of Giorno Poetry Systems 1965-1993". Talvin Singh and Bachir also made a CD in London 2000.With Bachir,the group has toured extensively in Canada in the summer of 2008 and Europe, Hong Kong. and USA in the 1990s,the new millenium 2000 until 2009. Attar's manager and official photographer during his group's 1990s recording career was his wife, Cherie Nutting, whom he had married in 1989. The two parted in Bachir and but she was managing him and his band again by the mid-2000s. The Master Musicians Of Jajouka led by Bachir Attar released a live album on newly founded Jajouka Records in January 2009.Bachir Attar and The Master Musicians of Jajouka toured the USA in winter 2009 playing at "UCLA Live" "The Arabesque" show at The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.among other concerts around the USA.In August 2009 Bachir and The Jajouka Masters were honored to be invited to play at "Le Fete du Throne"for the celebration of the coronation their King, His Royal Highness Mohammed VI in Al Hoceima,Morocco. In June 2009 Bachir Attar and The Master Musicians of Jajouka performed with Ornette Coleman, Patti Smith and Flea from The Red Hot Chili Peppers, at The Meltdown Festival in London. In July 2010 Bachir and his Musicians have the honor of being invited to play again with Ornette Coleman, at The North Sea Festival in Holland. A new record will also is expected to be released at this time.
[edit] Solo Discography
The Next Dream' with Maceo Parker (1992)
Bachir Attar In New York (With Elliott Sharpe, 1988)
Talvin Singh 2000
[edit] Further reading
AFROPOP - An illustrated guide to Contemporary African Music. Sean Barlow & Banning Eyre, Jack Vartoogian photographs Chartwell Books Inc 1995
"Reveillons a Tanger" by Daniel Rondeau 1988
(French) Alaoui, Mehdi Sekkouri. "Souvenirs. Sur les traces des Rolling Stones". Telquel Online. Retrieved Jan. 14, 2007.
Bowles, Paul (1991). Days. The Ecco Press. ISBN 0-88001-269-2. Davis, Stephen (1993). Jajouka Rolling Stone. Random House. ISBN 0-679-42119-X; Davis, Stephen (2001). Old Gods Almost Dead. Broadway Books, ISBN 0-7679-0312-9, at 197. Gross, Jason (June 2000). "Master Musicians of Jajouka: Bachir Attar Interview". Perfect Sound Forever. Retrieved Jan. 22, 2007.
Harris, Craig. "Bachir Attar". Retrieved Jan. 14, 2007. Kinney, Glenn (June 20, 1993). "Bachir Attar: The Next Dream". The New York Times, p. H841. Nutting, Cherie, with Bowles, Paul. (2000). Yesterday's Perfume: An Intimate Memoir of Paul Bowles. Clarkson Potter, at p. 199. ISBN 0-609-60573-9.
Pareles, Jon (December 9, 1993). "Pop and Jazz in Review: Bachir Attar and Trilok Gurtru". The New York Times, p. C14. Ranaldo, Lee (August 1996). "Into The Mystic". The *Wire. Retrieved Nov. 22, 2009. Palmer, Robert (October 14, 1971). "Jajouka: Up the Mountain". Rolling Stone, at 42. Palmer, Robert (March 23, 1989). "Into the Mystic". Rolling Stone, at 105. "Apocalypse Across the Sky"1992 and "Steel Wheels" 1989, and "On the Edge"1993 in Rolling Stone *Magazine by David Fricke The New York Times, 1992 Milo Miles "Magic Mountain" Details Magazine 1992 by Brian Cullman Turner, Steve. "When Keef Met Mr. Kif: ... in Morocco's land of forbidden pleasures". The Mail on Sunday: 35, 37. April 20, 2008. "The New Yorker Magazine",November 16,2009 The Wire 2009 Rewind - Global "Jajouka Live Vol.I"Bachir Attar and The Master Musicians of Jajouka. Best Cds in 2009 Uncut Magazine 2009 review - Ornette Coleman,The Master Musicians of Jajouka led by Bachir Attar with Flea and Patti Smith at Meltdown Festival London-rated Best performances of 2009 "Blues and Chaos" - The music writing of Bob Palmer edited by Anthony DeCurtis, Scribners 2009 . The New York Times - "In Search of a Father,In Search of the Blues" Ben Sisario November 2 THE WIRE MAGAZINE - The Master Musicians of Jajouka are nominated for one of the 10 best Global albums 2009 JAZZ BEYOND JAZZ-overview of Le Poisson Rouge show for Robert Palmer with Bachir Attar. BBC on the performance of the Meltdown Jazz Festival Performance with Ornette Coleman, Patti Smith and Bachir Attar and The Master Musicians of Jajouka BIRMINGHAM JAZZ-Reviews the final night of Meltdown Performance with Ornette Coleman and Jajouka led by Bachir Attar THE INDEPENDENT 2009 - Andy Gill, reviews the performance with Ornette Coleman and The Master Musicians of Jajouka THE GUARDIAN 2009 - Reviews Ornette Coleman jamming with Jajouka led by Bachir Attar THE TELEGRAPH UK, The London Evening Standard- reviews Patti Smith and mentions her jamming with Jajouka at Meltdown 2009 THE GUARDIAN-Alexis Petridis -A mention of Patti Smith performing with the Master Musicians of Jajouka Meltdown. AFROPOP WORLDWIDE-Interviews Bachir Attar preceding the final US Tour date at The Knitting Factory in New York City. Banning Eyre 2009
MoroccoBoard.com Reviews the opening show included a 120-member children choir from Syria, Bachir Attar & the Master Musicians of Jajouka from Morocco, Qatar symphony orchestra and Marcel Khalifé and Al Mayadine Ensemble. LAist Reviews The Royce Hall UCLA LIVE Performance 2009.Charging the air of Royce Hall with complex trance-inducing music and magic, The Master Musicians of Jajouka treated Los Angeles to a mesmerizing performance on Friday night. Portland's KBOO radio interviews Bachir Attar 2009
Bachir Attar of The Master Musicians of Jajouka stops by KBOO studios for an interview on the eve of their performance at the Roseland Theater.
METAL JAZZ REVIEWS-“Near the climax, the musicians’ energy loosened and broke in waves against the crowd’s frenzy…” UCLA’s Daily Bruin publishes a review of The Master Musicians of Jajouka’s music in preparation for the tour launch. METAL JAZZ REVIEW 2009 favorable review of Live Volume 1 published by Metal Jazz.
UCLA TODAY- Features Tour launch of Bachir Attar 2009
[edit] References
^ Sweeney, Philip (July 21, 1995). "No Stone unturned". The Independent (London).
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/no-stone-unturned-1592456.html. Retrieved 2009-04-02. ^ Rosemary Woodruff Leary, "The Master Musicians" Excerpted from "The Magician's Daughter", a work-in-progress., in , Ed Paul Krassner, Psychedelic Trips for the Mind Reprint (New York, 2000° pp 58-62
[edit] External links
Official site for The Master Musicians of Jajouka led by Bachir Attar
Bachir Attar and the Master Musicians of Jajouka official MySpace page
Lion-Auriga Music Publishing Master Musicians of Jajouka and Bachir Attar artist page
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachir_Attar"
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Cherie Nutting
born on April 24, 1949 in Wellesley, Massachusetts, is a photographer and musical artist manager, known for her photographs of expatriate author and composer Paul Bowles. Bowles and Nutting collatorated on the book Yesterday's Perfume: An Intimate Memoir of Paul Bowles (2000).
She studied photography at the New England School of Photography and at the New York School of Visual Arts. Enchanted by Morocco since her first brief visit to that country as a child in 1960, she met her first husband in Marrakech ten years later. Her first husband gave her a copy of Paul Bowles' book The Sheltering Sky shortly before they divorced. She became an admirer of Bowles' works and felt again drawn to visit Morocco. After writing Bowles about her interest in the region and his work, she began photographing him in Tangier at his invitation in 1986. She remained close friends with the author until his death in 1999.
In February 1989, Nutting married the Moroccan musician Bachir Attar, and she became manager for both the Master Musicians of Jajouka Featuring Bachir Attar, and her husband, who inherited the mantle of leader after the death of his father. Nutting also helped to arrange logistics and Tangier location for the June 1989 recording sessions of the 'Master Musicians of Jajouka Featuring Bachir Attar', and the Rolling Stones, for the song "Continental Drift" on the Stones' Steel Wheels album. She further served as a music and location coordinator for the BBC film The Rolling Stones in Morocco.
Cherie Nutting was an additional music coordinator for Bernardo Bertolucci's film adaptation of The Sheltering Sky (1990) and David Cronenberg's film adaptation of William S. Burroughs' novel the Naked Lunch (1991).
Nutting coordinated arrangements in Tangier for Bill Laswell's crew during the production of Apocalypse Across the Sky on Axiom (1992). As official photographer for her husband's Master Musicians of Jajouka group, she contributed photos to the album booklets and covers for the group's album releases during the 1990s. Nutting also contributed photographs to Bachir Attar's 1992 solo album on CMP, The Next Dream, and to his 1994 album with Elliott Sharp on Enemy Records, In New York.
Nutting was one of three executive producers on the 1995 CD release Jajouka Between the Mountains on WOMAD by recorded by the 'Master Musicians of Jajouka Featuring Bachir Attar'. She served as project coordinator on the 1995 controversial Point Music CD reissue with The Rolling Stones;Brian Jones Presents The Pipes Of Pan At Jajouka'[1] Her photos were included in a 1998 book about life in Tangier called The Tangier Diaries 1962–1979, by John Hopkins. Nutting and Attar divorced in 1996 but the two remained friends. manage Bachir Attar and The Master Musicians of Jajouka. The book Yesterday's Perfume: An Intimate Memoir of Paul Bowles was published January 2000, several months after Bowles' death. Nutting continues to manage the Master Musicians, helping to arranging tours and performances for the group, as well as her photography.
[edit] References
^ Rosemary Woodruff Leary, "The Master Musicians" Excerpted from "The Magician’s Daughter", a work-in-progress, Ed Paul Krassner, Psychedelic Trips for the Mind Reprint (New York, 2000 pp 58-62).
[edit] Further reading Aiken, Stephen (2001). Morocco: The Collected Traveler. Three Rivers Press. Bowles, Paul (1991). Days: Tangier Journal: 1987-1989. The Ecco Press. Carlson, Jon (Spring 2001). "Book Review: Yesterday's Perfume". Rain Taxi Literary Review, vol. 6, no. 1. "Cherie Nutting Discusses Paul Bowles on Jerry Jazz Musician". Jerry Jazz Musician. Retrieved Jan. 16, 2007. Hopkins, John (1998). The Tangier Diaries 1962-1979. Arcadia Books. ISBN 1900850028. McMurtrie, John (December 10, 2000). "A Relationship That Clicked". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved Jan. 16, 2007.
Nutting, Cherie, with Bowles, Paul. (2000). Yesterday's Perfume: An Intimate Memoir of Paul Bowles. Clarkson Potter. ISBN 0-609-60573-9.
Stephen Davis - "Jajouka Rollingstone" Random House 1993 (ISBN:0-679-42119-X) Stephen Davis - "Old Gods Almost Dead" Broadway Books (ISBN: 0-7679-0312-9) 2001
Turner, Steve. "When Keef Met Mr. Kif: ... in Morocco's land of forbidden pleasures". The Mail on Sunday: 35, 37. April 20, 2008.
Ranaldo, Lee (August 1996). "Into The Mystic". The *Wire. Retrieved Nov. 22, 2009.
PAUL BOWLES, A LIFE - By Virginia Spencer Carr,(ISBN:0-684-19657-3) Scribners 2004
"In Touch", Paul Bowles Letters, edited by Jeffrey Miller, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York 1994
[edit] External links
Short biography of Cherie Nutting and some of her photographs of Paul Bowles
Cherie Nutting artist page at June Bateman Fine Art
June Bateman Fine Art Bio on Cherie Nutting
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