Bureau of Lost Culture – The ‘4000 Year old Rock Band’ (10/06/2023)
In a remote village in the Ahl Srif tribal area of Northern Morocco, dwell a collective of Sufi musicians
They play a form of trance music which is used for healing. Timothy Leary called them The 4,000-year-old Rock’N’Roll band – hyperbole of course though it is true that the music The Master Musicians of Joujouka play is thousands of years old.
Ahead of their performances in London (The Forge June 20 and 21) and at the Glastonbury. Record producer, film-maker and beat historian Frank Rynne, who co-organises their annual festival, came to the Bureau to tell the strange and wonderful story of Jojouka, their culture and their interaction with the counterculture. of the 50s and 60s
And we hear about Tangier and the life there of Beat artists Bryon Gysin and William Burroughs – and of the story of Brian Jones who recorded the Master Musicians shortly before his death.