Artist: Bachir Attar
Genre(s):
Folk
Discography:
The Next Dream
Year: 1992
Tracks: 7
Inheriting the group's leadership from his father in 1982, Bachir Attar has guided the Master Musicians of Jajouka through matchless of their most fulfilling periods. Under Attar's direction, the mathematical group, which flap novelist William Burroughs called a "4,000 class old tilt & twine band" and web.crittersbuggin.com called the "ancient founding kin of enchantment," has collaborated with international artists including the Rolling Stones, Ornette Coleman, Maceo Parker, Sonic Youth, and the London Symphony Orchestra. Indian composer, DJ, baseball club promoter, and tabla instrumentalist Talvin Singh produced the ensemble's 2000 album Searching for the Passions.
A native of the northern Moroccan foothills of the Rif Mountains, Attar was born to be a musician. Descended from a long cable of government-sanctioned musicians, including the royal tribunal musicians for seven kings prior to the occupation of Monocco by France and Spain, he began perusal percussion at the age of four. Attar was still a minor when the Master Musicians of Jajouka were recorded by the former Brian Jones, shortly before his decease from drowning in 1969. The album The Pipes of Pan at Jajouka was released deuce years later. In addition to his liaison with the Master Musicians of Jajouka, Attar has retained an active calling as a soloist and recording sideman. During frequent trips to Paris, London, and New York, he collaborated with Deborah Harry, Ornette Coleman, Maceo Parker, the Rolling Stones, and Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo. A solo record album, The Next Dream, was released in 1992 and was followed by In New York, recorded with influential improviser Elliott Sharp, in 1994.
