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.