Jazz Articles about The Master Musicians Of Jajouka & Material

The Master Musicians Of Jajouka & Material: Apocalypse Live

by Martin Longley
July 13, 2017

This is another entry for M.O.D.'s new download-only Digital Incunabula series, which concentrates on live recordings from the Bill Laswell vaults. Here's a Jajouka/Material set from 2015's Gent Jazz Festival in Belgium, a performance actually witnessed by your scribe. The five-piece Jajouka Sufi trance contingent (from the eponymous mountain village in Morocco) are led by Bachir Attar, a longtime collaborator with Western experimenters, mostly as a consequence of his work with producer and bassist Laswell. The Jajouka introduce ...