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Bachir Attar, born in Jajouka in 1964 is the founder and leader of Master Musicians of Jajouka Featuring Bachir Attar. Attar's father, Hadj Abdesalam Attar, led the group Master Musicians of Joujouka at the time of their groundbreaking album produced by Brian Jones. This group recorded under the shorter name "Master Musicians of Jajouka" on soundtracks for films including The Cell, appearances with the Rolling Stones on Steel Wheels, the second album of the group from 1974 produced by Rubiner, and Attar's controversial 1995 reissue of the Joujouka musicians album, Brian Jones Presents The Pipes of Pan at Joujouka. 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 brother Abdellah Attar and the son of the famous drum master, Mohamed "Berdous" Attar. Other members include Mokhtar Jagdal, and Mohamed Attar, moqadeem of the shrine of Sidi Ahmed Sheikh. The claim that Attar's reissue of the Brian Jones album was made by friends of the former manager, Mohamed Hamri, a ruthless and tyrannic manager, who was ousted from the job by the musicians back in 1973. Hamri 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 issue.

Bachir Attar has recorded a solo album in addition to his work with Master Musicians of Jajouka, entitled The Next Dream which was produced in New York by Bill Laswell in connection with the album Laswell recorded of the traditional music for his label Axiom, entitled Apocalypse Across The Sky. Attar was a guest performer on Nicky Skopelitis's 1993 album, Ekstasis. 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 1996, but she was managing him and his band again by the mid-2000s. The Master Musicians Of Jajouka led by Bachir Attar has released a live album on newly founded Jajouka Records in January 2009 and will leave on a Winter Tour of The United States in February 2009. In connection with the release of the live album, the group launched a fresh website www.jajouka.com which documents in great detail the confusion surrounding the new splinter group. Also Bachir Attar has declared, that more albums will follow with the ancient material, including the mystical track 55, in Arabic Hamza U Hamzeen.

Solo Discography

• The Next Dream (1992)
• In New York (With Elliott Sharp, 1994)

References

1. 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

Further reading

• Template:Fr 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.
• 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 Jan. 14, 2007.

External links

• Official site for the Master Musicians of Jajouka featuring 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

• Moroccan musicians
• Jajouka
• 1964 births
• Living people