THE ROLLING STONES - BRIAN JONES PRESENTS THE PIPES OF PAN AT JOUJPUKA
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TRACKS UNTITLED ENGINEER GEORGE CHKIANTZ PRODUCER BRIAN JONES
BACKGROUND
Painter/novelist Brion Gysin first heard music from the area with American writer Paul Bowles at a festival in Sidi-Kacern in 1950. Entranced with music's sound,he later was led to the village to hear the music in person by Moroccan painter Mohamed Hamri. Gysin,along with Hamri,brought Brian Jones to hear the village music in 1968. The album's music included songs meant for the village's "most important religious holiday festival,Aid el Kbir".The festival's ritual of dressing a young bot dressed as"Bou Jeloud,the Goat God" wearing the "skin freshly slaughtered goat",involved the child's running to "spread panic through the darkened village" as the musicians played with abandon. Gysin connected the ritual,performed to protect the village's health in the coming year,to the fertility festival of Lupercalia and the "ancient Roman rites of Pan",he referred to the Bou Jeloud dancer as "Pan" and "the Father of the Skins".This name stuck,leading to the reference to Pan in the ablum's title. Jones,recording engineer Geogre Chkiantz,and Gysin travelled to the village in 1968,accompanied by Hamri and Jones's girlfriend Suki Potier to record the musicians using a portable Uher recorder.Jones worked on the two-track recordings in London,adding stereo phasing,echo,and other effects. Jones edited the full-band selection to 14 minutes by "cross-phasing" fragments of a work that runs to some ninety minutes in uncut form" The album included three types of music:repetitive vocal chants"similar to those employed throughout Islam"
RELEASED 1971 RECORDED 1968,MOROCCA
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