Jilala/Gnaoua, Moroccan Trance Music (1990)

Paul Bowles, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Gregory Corso and Ian Sommerville in Burroughs’s Villa Mouniera garden, Tangier (July 1961).

Jilala/Gnaoua, Moroccan Trance Music

Sub Rosa, "Le Coeur Du Monde", 1990.

1. Unknown Artist – Jilala Wedding Procession

2. Jilala De Tanger – Ouled Khalifa

3. Jilala De Tanger – Darba Del Hameni

4. Jilala De Tanger – Gnaoui

5. Unknown Artist – Ghaitta And Drums (Part 1)

Blind Musician, Jemaa El Fna (Part 2)

6. Gnaoua De Abdenbi Binizi – Jellaba Titara

7. Gnaoua De Abdenbi Binizi – Yumala

8. Gnaoua De Abdenbi Binizi – Neksma

9. Gnaoua De Abdenbi Binizi – Baba Larabi

Producer : Randall Barnwell. Track 1 & Part 1 of Track 5 recorded by Paul Bowles in Tangier in 1978. All other recordings by Randall Barnwell in 1990.

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Other Worlds

“I would say Oist music is mostly rooted in Sun Ra's music. His music was a very particular mix of american classic jazz with ritual improvisation, traditional influences and avant-garde sounds, a strange type of futurist Exotica. Oist music has also a ritual function. It is rooted in american popular culture, there's a lot americana in it, but it is mainly improvised and the vocal part of it is very specific. I love Pygmy music, for an example: it is maybe my favourite music. I don't understand why people are always singing the same way.”

Jim Shaw in discussion with the author about A Tone, Meant for Your Sins, a musical performance soon in Turin on the occasion of "Blinding the Ears"

Other worlds:

V/A, from Gabon, Musiques des Pygmées Bibayak, Dialogues avec le esprits (1996)

Sun Ra, from Lanquidity, There Are Other Worlds (They Have Not Told You Of) (1978)

Secret Chiefs 3, from First Grand Constitution, Assassin's Blade (2000)

Exo'ism

Jim Shaw, Dream Object (Elephant Trunk), 2007

“I would say Oist music is mostly rooted in Sun Ra's music. His music was a very particular mix of american classic jazz with ritual improvisation, traditional influences and avant-garde sounds, a strange type of futurist Exotica. Oist music has also a ritual function. It is rooted in american popular culture, there's a lot americana in it, but it is mainly improvised and the vocal part of it is very specific. I love Pygmy music, for an example: it is maybe my favourite music. I don't understand why people are always singing the same way.”

Jim Shaw in discussion with the author about A Tone, Meant for Your Sins, a musical performance soon in Turin on the occasion of "Blinding the Ears".

Other music:

"Gabon, Musiques des Pygmées Bibayak", Dialogues avec le esprits (1996)

Sun Ra, from "Lanquidity", There Are Other Worlds (They Have Not Told You Of) (1978)

Secret Chiefs 3, from "First Grand Constitution", Assassin's Blade (2000)