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 Ottar has guided the Overlord Musicians of Jajouka through matchless of their nearly fulfilling periods. Under Attar's direction, the mathematical group, which beat novelist William William S. Burroughs called a "4,000 class old rock & entwine dance band" and web.crittersbuggin.com called the "ancient origination kinsperson of enchantment," has collaborated with international artists including the Roll Stones, Ornette Coleman, Maceo Parker, Sonic Younker, and the Jack London Philharmonic Orchestra. American Indian composer, DJ, baseball nightspot impresario, and tabla instrumentalist Talvin Singh produced the ensemble's 2000 album Searching for the Passions.
A aborigine of the northern Moroccan foothills of the Rif Mountains, Athar was born to be a musician. Descended from a long cable television service of government-sanctioned musicians, including the royal tribunal musicians for septet kings prior to the occupation of Monocco by French Republic and Kingdom of Spain, he began poring over percussion at the geezerhood of foursome. Attar was still a tike when the Headmaster Musicians of Jajouka were recorded by the former Brian Inigo Jones, shortly earlier his death from drowning in 1969. The album The Pipes of Pan at Jajouka was released two years later. In addition to his inter-group communication with the Captain Musicians of Jajouka, Athar has retained an active voice calling as a soloist and recording sideman. During frequent trips to Paris, Jack London, and Freshly York, he collaborated with Deborah Provoke, Ornette Coleman, Maceo Charles Christopher Parker, the Rolling Stones, and Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo. A solo phonograph recording album, The Next Dream, was released in 1992 and was followed by In New York, recorded with influential improviser Elliott Sharp, in 1994.
