Master Musicians of Joujouka "Boujeloud" In Joujouka ghaita

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 Master Musicians of Joujouka are holding their festival 10-12 June 2011 booking email joujouka@gmail.com

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Music

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• ghaita
• jajouka
• joujouka

[Noodles37UK]

Maroc Akbar!!

[jmmmedo]

extra, ca fait bouger mais dommage cette video manque d'eclairage et bajloud (l'homme habillé en peaux de chevreaux) n'est pas bien visible.

[cass57cass]

Pure magic. Brion Gysin wrote about them in 'the process'. Don't think that's why he lost the resturant.

[btlz01]

Jahjouka ghayat or musician is a legende it's a a deep art and tradition of the prerif hills and mountains. Thy are known for their excellent inspiration and magic music

[ebonmonochrome]

I know that he lost his restaurant, but it seems that afterward he was still good friends with them, leading them to meet Genesis P-Orridge.

[Oscar301]

Didn't the musicians try cursing Brion Gysin for revealing their art to the outside world?

[jamazoncloud]

Surely you must understand that there are no words for what is in my heart. Thank you.  well said euterpocks . . .

[sutcliffe62x]

awesome riff, like jimmy page.

[Euterperocks]

Surely you must understand that there are no words for what is in my heart. Thank you.

[spangla777]

BEAUTIFUL