Billy Corgan comments on Master Musicians of Joujouka. Smashing Pumpkins' leader Billy Corgan with the Master Musicians of Joujouka in their home village in Morocco. March 2006. He is talking to Joujouka producer Frank Rynne "Joujouka Black Eyes" (1994), "Sufi" (1996), "Boujeloud" (2006) "10%:file under Burroughs" (1996), after a long performence by the Sufi masters. The musicians are holding a festival in honour of Brian Jones' visit to record them in 1968. The 40th Anniversary festival is limited to 50 place and is booking now on www.joujouka.net

Opens with Boujeloud whipping at the camera. like Pan Boujeloud whips with a branch of leaves bestowing fertility and good luck. This clip is the last 6 minutes of a 2 hour performance. The musicians hardly move while they create the intense force needed to drive Boujeloud, or Pan from their village. Boujeloud dances in a frenzy in the dark. The clip opens with Boujeloud whipping at the lens. Boujeloud imparts fertility and blessings with flicks of his stick. In Joujouka it is said that if Boujeloud’s flailing branches touch a young women she soon be pregnant. Boujeloud dances as The Master Musicians of Joujouka play in an informal session. Billy Corgan speaks Moroccan at the end. The instrumental music in Joujouka forms two distinct repertoires with very different origins. Firstly there is the music called Boujeloudia which is traditionally performed annually on the Islamic feast of Aid el Kebir. This suite of music is played while a boy sewn into fresh goat skins dances in frenzy. The music is used to keep the goat-man at bay. The music for Boujeloud, or the Father of Skins, is frantic and has six movements which would equate to a symphony or the score of an opera if it were European classical music. The festival and ritual originate in the worship of the God Pan. Pan was evoked in the springtime to ensure the fertility of both the crops and the people. The people of Joujouka have kept this ancient tradition alive. The Musicians are holding The Brian Jones 40th Anniversary Festival in their village in Joujouka, Morocco on 29th July 2008. Info and Booking at myspace.com/mastermusiciansofjoujouka And www.joujouka.net.

This was the masters first trip to Porto. The dancing piper is 78 year old Mohamed Mockchan. the dancing drummer is Ahmed Attar. Ahmed Attar " I was a twelve year old learning drumming with my father and the Mallims. Brian Jones was very good. My father played rhiata with and for him and I danced and played my drum. He came with Hamri and Brion Gysin. He had long hair and he rubbed my head. He brought a lot to Joujouka. Besef Baraka. We will mark the 40th Anniversary of his visit here in Joukouka to honour Brian Jones and to let people come to Joujouka and see what it is like here for themselves. It is good to feel the Baraka of Sidi Ahmed Scheich. Joujouka is his country. He is the Cultivator with Lions and Healer of Crazy Minds."

master musicians of joujouka live in Porto The Master Musicians of Joujouka warming up for a a long trance at Casa da Musica, Porto, 1 April, 2006. This was the masters first trip to Porto. The dancing piper is 78 year old Mohamed Mockchan. the dancing drummer is Ahmed Attar. Ahmed Attar " I was a twelve year old learning drumming with my father and the Mallims. Brian Jones was very good. My father played rhiata with and for him and I danced and played my drum. He came with Hamri and Brion Gysin. He had long hair and he rubbed my head. He brought a lot to Joujouka. Besef Baraka. We will mark the 40th Anniversary of his visit here in Joukouka to honour Brian Jones and to let people come to Joujouka and see what it is like here for themselves. It is good to feel the Baraka of Sidi Ahmed Scheich. Joujouka is his country. He is the Cultivator with Lions and Healer of Crazy Minds."