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Bachir Attar (Arabic: بشير عطار, born 1964) is a Moroccan musician and the leader of The Master Musicians of Jajouka led by Bachir Attar. He is the son of Hadj Abdesalam Attar, who led the group Master Musicians of Jajouka at the time of their album, '' Brian Jones Presents The Pipes of Pan at Jajouka'', produced by
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in 1968.


Attar as leader of the Master Musicians of Jajouka

Bachir Attar was born in Jajouka,
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, and the Master Musicians are descended from members of his father's group. They include his brothers Mostapha Attar, Abdellah Attar, and the son of the famous drum master, Mohammed "Berdous" Attar. Other members include Abderrzak el Attar, Mokhtar Jaghdal, and Mohamed Attar, moqqadem of the shrine of Sidi Ahmed Sheikh, and Abdellah Bokhzar, all who played with Bachir's father. Hamri was released as manager in 1972. Hamri had sold the copyright for the music to Brian Jones, and Bachir Attar had to negotiate with the Estate of Brian Jones and The Rolling Stones for the loan of their ancient music for the 1995 reissue of the first album. Attar and the group recorded under the shorter and correct pronunciation of the Moghrebi name ''The Master Musicians of Jajouka'' on soundtracks for films including ''The Cell''; ''The Hand of Fatima'' in 2009 by director Augusta Palmer; ''William S. Burroughs: A Man Within''; directed by Yoni Leyser (2010); and Nicolas Roeg's ''Bad Timing'' (1980). Albums with the group and Attar include ''Apocalypse Across the Sky'' (
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, 1992), ''Jajouka Between the Mountains'' (
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, 1996), appearances with the
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on "Continental Drift" from the album '' Steel Wheels'' in 1989, the second album of the group from 1974, produced by Joel Rubiner, entitled ''The Master Musicians of Jajouka'', and the 1995 reissue of '' Brian Jones Presents The Pipes of Pan at Jajouka'' on Point (Polygram) records. The spelling of "Jajouka" in the 1995 reissue title was corrected from "Joujouka" in the initial release's title for consistency with the band name spelling on the second album from 1974.


Solo and group performances and recordings

In addition to his work with Master Musicians of Jajouka, Bachir Attar was granted a Music Composition Fellowship by "The New York Foundation for the Arts" in 1990 for his compositions "Memories of My Father" and "Sounds of New York". Attar has also recorded a
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entitled ''The Next Dream'', which was produced in
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by
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in connection with ''Apocalypse Across The Sky'', the album Laswell recorded of the traditional music for his
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label. Attar was a guest performer on Nicky Skopelitis's 1993 album, '' Ekstasis''. He recorded "In New York" with
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in 1990 and toured with Sharp's band Carbon. He also recorded with Debby Harry and Chris Stein on the ''Cash Cow: The Best of Giorno Poetry Systems 1965-1993''. Talvin Singh and Attar also made a CD in London 2000. With Attar, the group has toured extensively in Canada, Europe, Hong Kong and USA since the 1990s. 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 amicably in 1996, but she was managing him and his band again by the mid-2000s. The Master Musicians of Jajouka led by Bachir Attar released a live album on newly founded Jajouka Records in January 2009. Bachir Attar and The Master Musicians of Jajouka toured the US in winter 2009 playing at UCLA Live, Arabesque: Arts of the Arab World festival at The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. among other concerts around the US. In August 2009 Bachir and the Jajouka Masters played at Festival des Plages in Al Hoceima, Morocco, and during la Fête du Trône in honor of the coronation of His Majesty King Mohammed VI. In June 2009 Bachir Attar and The Master Musicians of Jajouka performed with
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,
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and
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from the
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at The Southbank Meltdown Festival in London. In July 2010 Bachir and his master musicians group performed again with Ornette Coleman at The North Sea Jazz Festival in Rotterdam, Holland. A new CD and vinyl album, ''The Source'', was released in July 2010 by Son du Maquis in Paris. On May 12, 2013, Attar's performance with the Master Musicians of Jajouka on CNN's '' Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown'', was aired in the first season's episode 5 segment, which focused on
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.''Burroughs, Bogey and Bourdain: A portrait of Tangier''
May 12, 2013. CNN.com (retrieved August 19, 2013).


Discography

(Solo) * ''In New York'', with Elliott Sharp (1990) * ''The Next Dream'', with
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(1992)


References


Further reading

* Alaoui, Mehdi Sekkouri
"Souvenirs. Sur les traces des Rolling Stones"
Telquel Online. Retrieved January 14, 2007. * Bowles, Paul (1991). ''Days''. The Ecco Press. . * Davis, Stephen (1993). ''Jajouka Rolling Stone''. Random House: New York. * Davis, Stephen (2000). "Old Gods Almost Dead". Broadway Books: New York. * Gross, Jason (June 2000)

''Perfect Sound Forever''. Retrieved January 22, 2007. * Harris, Craig. "Bachir Attar" Retrieved January 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. . * Palmer, Robert (2010). "Blues and Chaos - The music writing of Bob Palmer". Ed. Anthony DeCurtis. New York: Scribners. * Palmer, Robert (October 14, 1971). "Jajouka: Up the Mountain". ''Rolling Stone'' magazine. * Palmer, Robert (March 22, 1989). "Into the Mystic". ''Rolling Stone''. * 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 November 22, 2009.


External links


Official site for The Master Musicians of Jajouka led by Bachir Attar

Bachir Attar and the Master Musicians of Jajouka official MySpace page


* ttp://www.exberliner.com/articles/%E2%80%9Ci-have-the-archive-in-my-brain%E2%80%9D Interview in English with Bachir Attarin ''Exberliner Magazine'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Attar, Bachir 1964 births 20th-century Moroccan musicians 21st-century Moroccan musicians Jajouka Living people