Brian Jones Presents.. The Pipes of Pan @ Jajouka

"There can be no more to be added to Brion Gysin's spine-chilling description of the Rites of Pan Festivals, particularly by myself who has never witnessed the week-long  chaos. In fact I don't know if I possess the stamina to endure the incredible constant strain of thie festival.  Such psychic weaklings has Western Civilisation made of so many of us. Jajouka yet has to have a road built thereto, is without electricity, plumbing, in short all the 'comforts' without which the majority of us would cry out in agonsied discomfort.  In fact there is no school as such, All knowledge and culture is passed down from mother to child untill the age of tweleve, at which age the father-community watches over the tender years of the boys and the young girls are not further to be seen untill they are married off.

What exists here is a specially chosen representation of the type of music which is played and chanted during the festival. The pieces and therefore the climaxes are necessarily shortened and when one considers that many of these chants continue for hours and hours one will realise the necessity.  We apologise for the vitual inaudibility of the lead singer during the chanting of the women, but they are chanting an incantation to those of anotehr plane, and while we were reconrding her, she hid her bearutiful voice behind the drum she was playing. It was not for our ears. Anyway we hope to have captured the spirit and magic of Jajouka". - Brian Jones
 

"Brian Jones Presents The Pipes Of Pan at Jajouka" was the closest thing Brian has to a solo album (since 'A Degree Of Murder' has not been officially released as a soundtrack). Released as a kind of tribute in 1971, and then rereleased by Point Music in 1995, it is a mixture of agonising tribal harmonies, rythms and lullabyes, and gives the listener an insight into a 4000 year old carnival.

Jajouka was *Discovered* by the beat generation, and Brian Jones was introduced to the music of Jajouka by Brion Gynsin in 1967, Brian was captivated by the intriegue and ritual of Jajouka, and the festival of Pan, which the inhabitants played on a mock festival for Brian. Reading the linear notes from the origional album, and the others that were added for the Point Music release, gives a breif description of the customs and rites from this festival.

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