Brian Jones Presents The Pipes Of Pan At Joujouka

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Brian Jones Presents The Pipes Of Pan At Joujouka

Studio album by Brian Jones and The master musicians of Joujouka
Released	1971
Recorded	Rolling Stones
Genre	World music - Trance music
Label	AFM
Producer(s)	Brian Jones
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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 Joujouka in performance in their village. The L.P. released in 1971 on Rolling Stones Records presented the Master Musicians of Joujouka 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 Joujouka 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 Joujouka drum.

[edit] 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 was brought to Joujouka by Mohamed Hamri and Brion Gysin. The cover 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.

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.

[edit] Controversy

In 1995 a controversial CD reissue was released by Point Music. The cover featured a photograph of Bachir Attar, a musician from the village who was attempting to have a career in the World Music business. Attar who was six at the time of the recording of the LP claimed ownership of the name of the group, the disc and all royalties associated with the release.

The name of the artists was also changed to "The Master Musicians of Jajouka featuring Bachir Attar". Brion Gysin's original sleavenotes were altered to leave out all mention of Mohamed Hamri's central role in both the album's realisation and his role as the person who brought Joujouka to the attention of the Beat Generation and Brian Jones, Ornette Coleman and Timothy Leary. Concerts by both Attar and Philip Glass were the scene of protests; both in the USA and London, against misappropriation of the monies received for the CD which were not passed to the musicians or their descendants These protests also highlighted the rewritting of the history of the group. The issue became a cause célèbre and was widely reported in the UK media in The Guardian, The Wire, The Telegraph, and The Independent newspapers as well as BBC World Service and BBC Radio 4.

The Master Musicians of Joujouka still record under their original name. A new CD featuring their music for Pan will be released in September 2006 by Sub Rosa Records.