(Ethnic Trance / Electronic) Talvin Singh & Master Musicians Of Jajouka feat. Bachir Attar - Master Musicians Of Jajouka - Talvin Singh - 2002, FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

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Talvin Singh & Master Musicians Of Jajouka / Master Musicians Of Jajouka  (ft. Bachir Attar) [PHCF-3535]
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Talvin Singh Matharoo[2] (Punjabi: ਤਲਵੀਨ ਸਿੰਘ ਮਠਾਰੂ) (born 1970 in London, England), is a producer and composer and tabla player, known for creating an innovative fusion of Indian classical music and drum and bass. Singh is generally considered involved with an electronica sub genre called Asian Underground, and more recently as Indian and/or Asian electronica.
After collaborating with Siouxsie and the Banshees and Björk in the early 1990s, Singh released his debut album Ok which received the Mercury Music Prize in 1999.[3]
Singh has since collaborated with a variety of acts including Madonna and Massive Attack.
Master Musicians of Jajouka
Jajouka is a small ancient village perched above a long valley in the blue Djebala foothills of the Rif mountains several kilometers from Ksar el Kebir, in northern Morocco. Once upon a time—a time before history —when the past was remembered in words and music recited in the fire-lit dark—a group of migrants, perhaps from the Phoenician settlement of Lixus on the Atlantic coast, made their home on the Mountain of Owls in the gold-green foothills of the Moroccan Rif. There, above the winding valley of the Loukous, a music was born in the magic and mystery of the darkness which for years beyond counting has survived, absorbing all influences that have come along, from Roman Gods and Islamic Saints, to the development of a modern Moroccan kingdom.
The inhabitants of this small village are from the Ahl Sherif (meaning "the saintly") tribe. The Attar clan of Jajouka is the founding family of Jajouka's Master Musicians and keepers of one of the world's oldest and most unique surviving musical traditions. The music and secrets of Jajouka have been passed down through generations from father to son, by some accounts for as long as 1,300 years. The musicians of Jajouka are taught from early childhood a complex music which is unique to Jajouka, until they finally become malims or masters. They possess baraka, or the blessing of Allah, which gives them the power to heal, and the endurance required to play some of the most intense and complex trance-like music around. The Master Musicians of Jajouka are all descendants of one family, the Attars. Attar is a Sufi watchword and a deeply mystical name meaning "perfume maker". Members of the group, who speak Arabic, adopt the surname "Attar," which translates as "the perfume maker." The band continues to reside in Jajouka.
An album produced by the Rolling Stones' Brian Jones a month before his drowning death in 1969, Brian Jones Presents: The Master Musicians of Jajouka introduced the unique sound of the Master Musicians of Jajouka to much of the Western world. At the time, the group had been performing their unique, drone-heavy music for several thousand years. The band, comprised of sons of sons of musicians, has subsequently recorded several unforgettable albums on their own and has been featured on albums by Ornette Coleman, the Rolling Stones, Randy Weston, Maceo Parker, Jimmy Page, and Robert Plant. An album released by the group in 1992, Apocalypse Across the Sky, was produced by Bill Laswell and became an instant classic.
Proclaimed "one of the most musically inspiring groups in the world" by Mick Jagger, the Master Musicians of Jajouka perform a hypnotic style of music that The African Music Encyclopedia described as "a strange (at least to Western ears) combination of high-pitched, nasal, buzzing sounds (imagine a swarm of bees) with surging waves of rhythm which can induce an ecstatic trance state." An all-male group, the Master Musicians of Jajouka lineup for tonight’s show features 5 ghaita (a double-reed, oboe-like instrument) players and five drummers. Several of the musicians double on other traditional instruments including the the lira (a bamboo flute), and the gimbri (a three stringed lute). This music is comprised of several fairly simple parts, which are then intricately woven together in a way foreign to most Western ears, so that the resolution of individual phrases and sections can be difficult for outsiders to discern. The music can be extended indefinitely, and many performances last for hours at a time, with some musicians taking breaks and others stepping in to take their place. The music of Jajouka has always been highly respected and sought after by those living in the region.
Unknown to the Western world for most of their history, the Master Musicians of Jajouka were "discovered" in the '50s by beat novelist William Burroughs and composer/writer Paul Bowles, who recorded the band for the Library of Congress. Brian Jones was introduced to the group by painter, writer, and metaphysician Brion Gysin. Starting in the early '90s, the Master Musicians of Jajouka were led by Bachir Attar, whose father had led the group in the late '60s. The Master Musicians of Jajouka's first tour of the United States in 1997 included a reenactment of the week-long lunar feast of Aid El Kabir. In 1999, the group was visited by Sonic Youth guitarist Lee Ranaldo. By the end of the '90s, the electronica world embraced the group as well; Talvin Singh produced their 2000 album The Master Musicians of Jajouka Featuring Bachir Attar.
Long before the current Alaouite dynasty of the Moroccan sultans, the Master Musicians traveled with the sultans as their Royal Musicians. They rode at the head of the army and heralded the sultan's arrival in a new city. They had very old papers from the king which spelled out their duties and rights at the palace: to play the king to bed at night; to play for him in the morning; and to play at the mosque when he went to pray. These papers were renewed when the Alaoui family, the ancestors of the current Moroccan king, came to power. The papers addressed the Master Musicians with extraordinary respect and set them free from all labor, allowing them to collect a tithe on all the crops grown around the village.
The Master Musicians were the Royal Court musicians for seven kings of Morocco prior to Morocco's occupation by France and Spain, and subsequent Independence in 1956. People still travel to Jajouka on pilgrimage to visit the shrine of the holy man Sidi Ahmed Sheikh, who brought Islam to the valley centuries ago. It is said that this holy man plowed his field with a team of Berber lions, a feat which inspired the special Jajouka insignia―a lion created through the calligraphic weaving of sacred text from the Qur'an. Sidi Ahmed Sheikh also had the power to heal mental illnesses, and he blessed the music of Jajouka with this same healing power (baraka). To this day, the Master Musicians, along with the holy man of the village, heal mental illnesses of the people sent from around Morocco. The guardian of the tomb is a member of the Master Musicians led by Bachir Attar, and is off-limits to non-Moslems and curiosity-seekers.
Writer William Burroughs referred to them as a "4000-year old rock & roll band". They were a defining influence on mid-60s Rolling Stones. They are the Master Musicians of Jajouka. Talvin Singh took up the challenge of collaborating with the Master Musicians of Jajouka shortly after winning the 1999 Mercury Music Prize. The Master Musicians of Jajouka are an all-male group from Morocco who have received royal patronage for centuries. This album is an ambitious mix of styles, moving from minimal trance-like jams to the electronica of tracks sych as "Searching For Passion", where the solitary wail of Bachir Attar's horn is set against Singh's ambient "atmospheres". Combining ancient rhythms with futuristic effects, including Cleveland Watkiss' vocoder, record scratching and rapidfire drum & bass, this is a vibrant release. At times Singh lapses into his electronic doodles, but the raw brilliance of the Jajouka musicians means that he never meanders there too long.--Lucy O'Brien

Talvin Singh was reportedly pleased and amazed to win the Technics Mercury Prize in the U.K. in 1999, a highly commendable trade achievement, for his eclectic CD OK. His instant reaction to receiving the award was to disappear off the European club and concert circuit to jam for months with the famed Master Musicians of Jajouka, heroes of the Rif mountains in a less than easily accessible region of Morocco. Beat author William Burroughs once described the Master Musicians as "the World's Only 4,000-year-old band," and Brian Jones recorded a tremendous album with them in 1969 shortly before he died. The outfit of long, strange, and wonderful renown achieves something heretofore unexplored in the company of Singh. Here the guest introduces a hallucinogenic, soulfully high-tech texture to the primordial rhythms and riffs of the masters, creating one of those rare syntheses of past and present, a gorgeous (of loosely hooked) carpet of colors and shapes. There is a whiff of the controlled jam here, not as fresh or far from the studio as one might expect from the high Rif, but this may be due to the production hand of Singh himself in the elaborate remix. A heartfelt and utterly noncommercial collaboration, probably meaning that winning the Mercury doesn't mean that everything, stylistically, must be cast in stone.

Performer – Abdullah Attar, Abdullah Attar Sandoui, Abdullah Boukzar, Ahmed Elhamdi, Ali Rtoubi, Amin Attar, Bachir Attar, Hadj Mohamed Attar, Mohamed Attar Larbi, Moktar Gajhdal, Mustapha Attar, Brad Somatik*, Tahir Boukzar, Talvin Singh
Producer – Talvin Singh
Written-By – Bachir Attar, Brad Somatik* (tracks: 5, 10 to 12), Talvin Singh (tracks: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 to 12)
Executive-producer – Rory Johnston
Mixed By, Programmed By – Brad Somatik*, Talvin Singh