Brian Jones Presents the Pipes of Pan at Joujouka
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Brian Jones Presents The Pipes Of Pan At Jajouka, originally spelled Brian Jones Presents The Pipes of Pan at Joujouka, is an album produced by Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones band in 1968. The album is a recording of the Moroccan group The Master Musicians of Jajouka, led by Haj Abdessalem el-Attar in performance in their village. The L.P. released in 1971 on Rolling Stones Records presented the Master Musicians of Jajouka to a global audience. Jones worked on the two track recordings in London, adding panning and other effects. He finished producing the LP a month before his death in 1969. His ex-girlfriend Anita Pallenberg said that Brian wanted the to incorporate the Jajouka sound into the music of the Stones. In the Goddard movie 1+1, Sympathy for the Devil, Stones drummer Charlie Watts can be seen in rehearsal playing a Jajouka drum.
Background
It was the first release on The Rolling Stones own record label, Rolling Stones Records in 1971. It is widely credited with being the first World Music LP.
Brian Jones was brought to Jajouka by Mohamed Hamri and Brion Gysin. Hamri was fired from managing the group in 1972 by the group's leader Haj Abdessalem el-Attar, father of Bachir Attar, who leads the Master Musicians of Jajouka group in the village today. Jones paid for a school for the musicians to be built which was later squatted by one family from the village and it ceased to be a place the villagers were welcomed.
The album is widely known as a pioneering work in the world music field.
Album Cover Change and Name Change
In 1995, a rerelease of the album on compact disc featured a new album cover and change of the spelling of the album title's last word to "Jajouka", in keeping with the spelling used first on the 1972 album by the same group produced by Joel Rubiner of the band for consistency reasons. Hamri's friend Frank Rynne, manager of a rival group that released material in the mid-1990s on Sub Rosa Records and using the "Joujouka" spelling in their Master Musicians of Joujouka group name, claimed foul play, spreading rumors disparaging Abdessalem el-Attar's son Bachir Attar throughout the music industry, editing in Wikipedia, and posting on collaborator Joe Ambrose's personal website complaints about the album title change and front cover photos.
The original cover prior to the redesign for the 1995 cd featuring the Master Musicians with Brian Jones in the centre was painted by Mohamed Hamri. It is believed to be in the collection of former Rolling Stone bassist Bill Wyman and was hung in his Sticky Fingers restaurant in London in the 1990s.
References
Davis, Stephen. Jajouka Rolling Stone, 1992.
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