Outside World Joujouka Special

So, as promised, here’s last night’s show - a special on the 40th anniversary of the recording of Brian Jones Presents: The Pipes of Pan at Joujouka.

We talked to author and musician Frank Rynne, who is involved with the festivities taking place in Joujouka on July 29th.
We also played a lot of music from The Master Musicians, as well as Bachir Attar’s solo work and the MMoJ’s work with others, host Daniel read from liner notes and we had virtual Dream Machines running in the air room.

The interview kicks in at the 39 minute mark. Frank was kind enough to wake up bright and early, Dublin time, and call in and chat with us for the better part of the show.

Download:
Outside World Joujouka Special (1 hour, 20 mins. - 114 megs.@192kbps.)

ALSO:
The touring faction of The Master Musicians of Jajouka are appearing this month at the Vancouver Folk Festival, in Vancouver B.C.
Lucky SOB Daniel gets to go, and he’d better get some pictures!

Here’s their tour itinerary:

Master Musicians of Jajouka Summer 2008 schedule

7.11.08 Festival D’été International de Québec
7.13.08 Cisco Ottawa Bluesfest - Ottawa
7.15.08 Phoenix Concert Theatre - Toronto
7.18.08 Concert of Colors - Detroit
7.19.08 Vancouver Folk Festival
7.20.08 Vancouver Folk Festival
7.22.08 Neumo’s - Seattle
7.24.08 Calgary Folk Festival
7.25.08 Calgary Folk Festival
7.26.08 Calgary Folk Festival
7.28.08 Le Poisson Rouge - New York

Updates and Kill Ugly Guestbook

Hi visitors!
Please take the time to leave comments and feedback in my guestbook page, particularly if you’ve downloaded something.

I not only appreciate feedback, but am trying to assess what this blog’s future needs - in terms of filesharing - might be.
I am looking at my bandwidth and visitor stats and am curious which direction I should take this blog.

To be clear, I am probably not going to be getting into sharing a lot of albums anymore. I did a lot of that in previous years and it’s a lot of work and I’m terribly busy these days. If someone desperately needs something that’s dead in my archives, I may be willing to help out in some way offline.

My main aim with the blog is to share news, views and some original radio mixes and audio art.

As I stated in the past, I may delete the old, Blogger Kill Ugly Radio, but it still steers traffic here and it allows posting of Seeqpod’s embedded player (curse you, WordPress!). When it no longer pulls in much traffic, it will cease to exist and I may have to consider upping my WP account to a paid account that will allow a player and some audio server space. Right now I’m operating under the kindness of a friend with buttloads of server space and bandwidth.
Anybody out there know of an embed-able audio option that will work with the free version of WordPress? I’d like to hear about it, as the paid option is almost out of the question.

I could do ads….

JUST KIDDING!
I’d sooner jump in a river of snot than to kiss Mammon’s ass and I couldn’t do that to you, dear reader.

So, please take a moment and give me your two cents or just a shout-out.
Thanks!
Peace,
Rich

Different Waters

In all my weirdly elliptical blog wanderings, I have forgotten how amazingly cool Different Waters is.
Go there and get lost in his voluminous archives like I am now (at 3:46AM).

Joujouka and Brian Jones Festival

On July 29th, 2008, will be the anniversary of the recording of the wonderful (and controversial) album Brian Jones Presents The Pipes of Pan at Joujouka.
To commemorate the event, there’s going to be a festival in Joujouka, Morocco:

To mark the 40th anniversary of this historic recording, the Master Musicians of Joujouka are staging a celebratory festival on 29th July 2008. The musicians will perform the Sufi healing music of Joujouka. There will be a a visit to the 8th century sanctuary of Joujouka’s patron saint Sidi Ahmed Schiech. It will also be possible to visit the cave of Boujeloud, Magara, which is a short trek outside the village.

The evening and night will be devoted to the healing trance music of Joujouka. After dinner, the night will be filled with a full performance of the Boujeloud Rite, which is likened to the ancient Rites of Pan.

Joujouka is a farming community with strong Sufi traditions, located in the Ahl Srif Mountains some 80 km south of Chefchaouen and 20km from Ksar El Kebir. It is a halal village; therefore, both the presence and consumption of alcohol is strictly forbidden.

Read more here.

Anybody got €250 they could spot me?

ALSO:
On Friday, July 4th, The Outside World (12AM-3AM) will feature music from this and other Master Musicians of Joujouka albums and other surprises.
So tune in this Friday to KBOO, 90.7FM in Portland OR and kboo.fm/listen for the rest of the world and 12AM Pacific time and join the fun, fire up your Dream Machine, etc.

A Violet Tempest in a Teacup

I could give a rip about Violet Blue. Like a lot of things in life, I’d rather engage in it than listen or read someone bloviate about it. It’s amusing, however, to note the goofy controversy around Boing Boing’s summary deletion of this media darling sex writer from their contributions along with any of her posts from their archives:

…Violet behaved in a way that made us reconsider whether we wanted to lend her any credibility or associate with her. It’s our blog and so we made an editorial decision, like we do every single day. We didn’t attempt to silence Violet. We unpublished our own work. There’s a big difference between that and censorship.

Yadda yadda, with a gigantic shitstorm of negative comments trailing the post. Most seem to think that Boing Boing has sold out or become Big Brother, declaring poor Violet an unperson and sending her fascinating posts down the memory hole.
Many speculate what it could be about. One most likely cause could be her absolute nuttiness in trying to trademark her trade name in the wake of a nutty lawsuit with a Washington porn star who was using the same name at the same time - or first. I don’t know. My grandpa always told me not to interfere in a fight between a trendy sex writer and a pornstar, so I don’t have dog in this fight, per se….
Whatever reason they chose to do this is their own. Possibly they have decided to disengage themselves from this litigious individual and a retroactive deletion may have been the safest move from a possible legal standpoint.
Bottom line: a blog is a glorified, electronic diary, not a public forum. They can post what they like and do house cleaning how they choose. That’s why Boing Boing doesn’t just give anyone the ability to log in a start posting. It’s not IndyMedia. If it was, you’d have to read through endless 9-11 Truth posts and rambling entries about contrails. Thank God(dess), too. What else would I read with my coffee every morning?
My and other people’s speculation aside, we may never know why they really chose to disassociate themselves from VB and any explanation might fall short of the expectation that the supposed transgression of censorship/unpublishing puts in people’s heads.
‘Nuff said.

—UPDATE:——
Read Mr. David Raffin’s post here. He never got the word about the Pornstar vs Sex Writer thing and wrote volumes about this long before Boing Boing bounced VB away.

Tim Russert and George Carlin in Fred Phelp’s Hell

Funny podcast featuring lots of Carlin on death and dying as well as recent Fred “God Hates Fags” Phelps on his passing and the spectacularly unfunny Capital Steps.
Listen here.
I think Phelps is plenty funny enough in his own right without all the whacky sound effects, IMHO.

New DJ Cheb I Sabbah Interview on Solipsistic Nation

Bazooka Joe contacted me to let us all know that:

Just thought I’d let you know that I recently had Cheb back on my show to talk about his latest CD, Devotion. Here’s the link.

Thanks, Joe!

New Negativland Site

Empty Handed just clued us in that Negativland have updated their site.:

“…they’ve got a crapload of more content online now (including the new album Thigmotatic, which officially goes on sale in a couple of weeks but is available for listening and ordering right now on the site).”

It now contains more and updated stuff if you’ve grown tired of looking at the older site.
Heck! Even the Weatherman has a little sub-site!

Go check it out.

Earlier Negativland Posts:

Don Joyce and Negativland

Negativland’s Mark Hosler Interview

Negativland in Portland part Deux

Negativland on KBOO

All about Dick

So long, Medussy

Another one gone.
Only one original cat left.

I’ll really miss her. She was a neurotic goofball, but really sweet and friendly. She either either got zapped by coyotes or stowed away in someone’s car and got lost somewhere (she had a habit of crawling into open windows of cars and falling asleep).

RIP: Mind Candy

I’ve known this was coming for some time, but now it’s official. Mind Candy, Vancouver’s greatest alternative book and video store will be closing up shop for good in a few months.
Now, if you want to rent Alejandro Jodowrosky videos or great cult TV series or some smutty comics, you have no one to blame but yourself, Vancouverite. You just didn’t want to drive a few measly miles out of your way to rent up some kultcha. Now you must schlep your sorry ass over to Movie Madness over in Pee Town when you want to see a bunch of Coffin Joe movies or Peter Greenaway flicks. Tsk, tsk.
Also, a hearty fuck you to the Vancouver Voice, for their apparent deliberate snub of Mind Candy (along with - ahem - The Catalyst!) when doing their lengthy article on Uptown Village and what a trendy, upscale and hip place it is supposed to be .
Vancouver doesn’t deserve you, Mind Candy. Let them rent 300 on Netflix.
I’m especially sad about the closing of Mind Candy, because it is the remains of what was Pegasus Books, a store run by a guy who I’ve come to be friends with over the last 24 years or so, Pat Richardson. He used to run the store in a dilapidated ghost-plaza on Grand and Evergreen for decades before partnering with movie and book collector Jerry, where they turned half of the store into a goldmine of movie rental weirdness. They moved the store a few years ago into trendy Uptown Village on Mainstreet and seemed to thrive for a spell. But a combination of a shit economy and a third partner’s departure made the end inevitable. So I’ve been renting every movie I can think of and copying it to my hard drive. Sigh. And pawing through old comics and remembering. Sad.