Brian Jones Presents The Pipes Of Pan At Joujouka

He only wanted to share: Brian Jones was justifiably evangelical about the shrill, gripping music that he heard in a village nestled in Morocco's Atlas Mountains. Simply recording the Pipes of Pan wasn't enough in 1969. In an effort to communicate his own kif-enhanced experience, The Rolling Stones guitarist took his four-track tapes home to England, where he deployed the full arsenal of psychedelic signal processing. The resulting album documents a millennia-old music, the sound of panic itself, as well as the fragmented mind of Jones in the months before his death. Drums throb in the foreground as the pipers are sucked figuratively into the slipstream of a jet engine via extreme phase shifting. A women's chorus, shrieking like seagulls, loops in the distance. Jones's apology for a muffled female solo is sufficient to raise gooseflesh: "It was not for our ears". Well before dub reggae and its spawn - the cult of remixing - Jajouka showcased techno-primitive terror, up where the air was very thin.

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Tracklisting:

1. "55 ("Hamsa oua Hamsine)" – 0:58
2. "War Song/Standing" + "One Half (Kaim Oua Nos") – 2:22
3. "Take Me with You Darling, Take Me with You (Dinimaak A Habibi Dinimaak)" – 8:06
4. "Your Eyes Are Like a Cup of Tea (Al Yunic Sharbouni Ate)" – 10:35
5. "I Am Calling Out (L'Afta)" – 5:55
6. "Your Eyes Are Like a Cup of Tea" (reprise with flute) – 18:04

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