Apocalypse Across The Sky, by THE MASTER MUSICIANS OF JAJOUKA feat. BACHIR ATTAR

Apocalypse Across The Sky

by THE MASTER MUSICIANS OF JAJOUKA feat. BACHIR ATTAR

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j_alan My goodness this is special music, a superb recording and a quality vinyl pressing. The packaging is elegant and sturdy. I can recommend this music and pressing to anyone. Favorite track: The Middle Of The Nlght.

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It is not every day that one comes across something like this. Truly exceptional, marvelous! “Apocalypse Across The Sky”, though, is perhaps not the best title for this album… Just an opinion.
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Val Clipp what a transcending ride. highly recommend getting this on vinyl if you have the financial means. one of the cleanest and well sounding records i own...goosebump inducing material & hard to believe this was played by a group of human beings.

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1.	Gabahay 06:01	buy track
2.	A Habibi Ouajee T'allel Allaiya 04:12	buy track
3.	EI Medahey 07:04	buy track
4.	Bujloudia Bujloudia Dancing With Aisha Qandisha” 05:46	buy track
5.	Alalilla “About The Night” 05:03	buy track
6.	The Middle Of The Nlght 05:53	buy track
7.	Bujloudia 06:26	buy track
8.	Jajouka Between The Mountains 05:53	buy track
9.	Memories Of My Father 07:17	buy track
10.	Mohamed Diha Utalla Fiha (Take Care Of Her Or Leave Her) 03:28	buy track
11.	Sbar Yagelbi Sbar 03:29	buy track
12.	On Horseback 05:12	buy track
13.	Talaha L'badro Alalna 03:00	buy track

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Available on vinyl for the very first time: the 1992 album „Apocalypse Across The Sky“ by the legendary MASTER MUSICIANS OF JAJOUKA. Produced by BILL LASWELL, remastered for vinyl by HELMUT ERLER at D&M Berlin and according to Songlines one of the essential recordings of the ensemble.

No matter if you consider the MASTER MUSICIANS OF JAJOUKA a “4,000 year-old rock‘n‘roll band” (WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS) or even „6,000 years old“ (ORNETTE COLEMAN) – without doubt, the music of the ensemble in all its incarnations over the centuries is deeply rooted in Sufi mysticism, paganism and the cult of the goat-god Boujeloud. According to a myth, many centuries ago Boujeloud appeared to a shepherd called Attar, an ancestor of today‘s ensemble leader BACHIR ATTAR, and till today every year at the end of Ramadan a fire in honour of the goat-god is ignited. This pagan root aside, the music performed in several hour long rituals on traditional instruments like tebel and tariyya (drums), ghaita (a woodwind instrument), lira (flute) and gimbri (stringed instrument) reveals hypnotic, trance-inducing qualities and is considered to have magical and healing properties.
In the 1950s, BRION GYSIN along with PAUL BOWLES were among the first westerners to witness such a ceremony, and it was GYSIN who invited the MASTER MUSICINS OF JAJOUKA to play in his restaurant in Tanger, and who later (in 1967) brought BRIAN JONES to the small village of Jajouka where the ROLLING STONES guitarist recorded the ensemble for what became the first „world music album” and that raised interest in the MASTER MUSICIANS OF JAJOUKA in the western world. Since those days, a wide number of creative minds like WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS, ORNETTE COLEMAN, MARC RIBOT, FLEA, TALVIN SINGH or the ROLLING STONES have worked with THE MASTER MUSICIANS OF JAJOUKA who are now performing regularly outside Morocco.
In 1991, iconic producer BILL LASWELL also embarked on a trip to the small village of just 800 inhabitants in the Rif mountains to record the group for his AXIOM label - „Apocalypse Across The Sky“ is, unlike other LASWELL projects that bring together different cultures and genres, a pure document of the ensemble, raw and unpolished but exquisitely recorded, and ranks according to the world music magazine Songlines among the essential recordings of the legendary MASTER MUSICIANS OF JAJOUKA and is now available on vinyl for the very first time!

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released March 6, 2020

Musicians
Bachir Attar (Leader) - Ghaita, Gimbri, Lira, Vocals
Mohamed Bacari - Ghaita, Gimbri, Lira, Vocals
Ali Nachat - Ghaita, Gimbri, Lira, Vocals
Larbi Lalli Attar - Ghaita, Lira, Tarija, Vocals
Mohammed El Hammadi – Ghaita, Gimbri, Tebel, Vocals
Ali Mojdoubl - Ghaita, Liria, Tarija, Vocals
Tahir Bokzar - Ghaita, Violin, Lira, Vocals
Abdellah Sandaoui Attar - Ghaita, Lira, Tarija, Vocals
Abdellah Attar - Ghaita, Tebel, Vocals
Lahesen Brital - Violin, Tarija, Vocals
Abdeslam Bokzar - Tarija, Vocals
Abdellah Shirioui - Tarija, Vocals
Mokhtar Jaghdal - Tebel, Vocals
Mostapha Attar - Tebel, Vocals
Abmed EI Himdi - Tebel, Vocals
Abdellah Bokzar - Tebel, Vocals

Womens Group
Rahama Attar - Bendir, Vocals
Menana Attar - Tarija, Vocals
Rahama Attar - Tarija, vocals
Hadoush Attar - Tarija, Vocals
Rahama Attar - Tarija, Vocals
Yamna Attar - Tarija, Vocals

Produced by Bill Laswell

Recorded at Jajouka in the foothills of the Rif Mountains of Morocco on november 8, 9 and 10, 1991
Coordination and production assistance in Morocco: Nicky Skopelitis
Assistance in Tangier and Jajouka: Cheerie Nutting

Engineered by Oz Fritz
Assistant engineer: Carl Glanville
Mixed at The Hit Factory, New York

Remastered for vinyl by Helmut Erler at D&M, Berlin

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