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Revision as of 14:21, 15 April 2007 by BKLisenbee (talk | contribs) (→External links: Again, the brink.com libel and slander has been removed.)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Bachir Attar is the leader of Master Musicians of Jajouka, who since 1990 have sometimes recorded under the name The Master Musicians of Jajouka featuring Bachir Attar. Attar's father, Hadj Abdesalam Attar, led the group at the time of their groundbreaking albums produced by Brian Jones and Joel Rubiner in the early 1970s. The group recorded under the shorter name "Master Musicians of Jajouka" on soundtracks for films including The Cell, recording with the Rolling Stones the song Continental Drift for the Stones' Steel Wheels album in 1989, the second album of the group from 1974 produced by Rubiner, and the 1995 Rolling Stones' reissue of the group's first album, Brian Jones Presents The Pipes of Pan at Jajouka. Bachir Attar carries on his father's Attar family traditions with a new generation of "master musicians" descended from members of his father's group. Bachir Attar continues to live in the village with his musicians who have recently returned from a concert in Lisbon, Portugal in homage to Paul Bowles held on March 31, 2007, greeted by the audience with a standing ovation.
He has recorded a couple of solo albums in addition to his work with Master Musicians of Jajouka. Attar was a guest performer on Nicky Skopelitis's 1993 album, Ekstasis. Attar's manager and official photographer during his group's 1990s recording career was his wife, Cherie Nutting, whom he had married in 1989. The two parted in 1996, but she was managing him and his band again by the mid-2000s.
Solo Discography
- The Next Dream (1992)
- In New York (With Elliott Sharp, 1994)
Further reading
- Template:Fr Alaoui, Mehdi Sekkouri. "Souvenirs. Sur les traces des Rolling Stones". Telquel Online. Retrieved Jan. 14, 2007.
- Bowles, Paul (1991). Days. The Ecco Press. ISBN 0-88001-269-2.
- Davis, Stephen (1993). Jajouka Rolling Stone. Random House. ISBN 0-679-42119-X.
- Gross, Jason (June 2000). "Master Musicians of Jajouka: Bachir Attar Interview". Perfect Sound Forever. Retrieved Jan. 22, 2007.
- Harris, Craig. "Bachir Attar". Retrieved Jan. 14, 2007.
- Kinney, Glenn (June 20, 1993). "Bachir Attar: The Next Dream". The New York Times, p. H841.
- Nutting, Cherie, with Bowles, Paul. (2000). Yesterday's Perfume: An Intimate Memoir of Paul Bowles. Clarkson Potter, at p. 199. ISBN 0-609-60573-9.
- Pareles, Jon (December 9, 1993). "Pop and Jazz in Review: Bachir Attar and Trilok Gurtru". The New York Times, p. C14.
- Ranaldo, Lee (August 1996). "Into The Mystic". The Wire. Retrieved Jan. 14, 2007.
External links
- Official site for the Master Musicians of Jajouka featuring Bachir Attar
- "Bachir Attar": General Info
- Pictures of Attar and Jajouka with the Rolling Stones during a 1989 recording session in Tangier, Morocco
- Lion-Auriga Music Publishing Master Musicians of Jajouka and Bachir Attar artist page
- "No Stone Unturned: Bachir Attar and Frank Rynne comment on the controversy surrounding the reissue of Brian Jones Presents The Pipes of Pan at Joujouka" in The Independent (retrieved 28 March 2007)
- Hamri's Open letter of protest against the reissue of Brian Jones presents the Pipes of Pan at Joujouka]