The Master Musicians of Jajouka were “discovered” by Beat-generation writer Brion Gysin, and later visited by Brian Jones and Timothy Leary on their lysergically-inclined wanderings around Morocco in the 1960s. Leary famously remarked that he had "found" a “four thousand year old rock and roll band” in the foothills of the Rif Mountains below Tangier. While the group's history remains contentious and questions about their roots still linger (Philip Schuyler's article "Joujouka/Jajouka/Zahjouka" gives the most comprehensive account) and while they’re hardly rock and roll, Leary’s sense of time lapse was appropriately and unsurprisingly apt: when the Master Musicians lock into a groove, minutes quickly turn to hours and hours to minutes. more ›