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Ira Cohen
The Majoon Traveler

Album BE 1994 on Sub Rosa label
Electronic, Jazz and Spoken Word (Spoken Word, Bop, Field Recording, Poetry, Ambient, Post-Bop, Tribal)

This is Sub Rosa's Aural Document SR62. It is subtitled "The Poetry Of Ira Cohen With DJ Cheb I Sabbah's Cut Up Mix Of Don Cherry, Ornette Coleman, Angus MacLise, Lights In A Fat City, Jilala". It is dedicated to Brion Gysin. Music of tracks 1, 6 and 11 recorded in Marrakesh in 1987. Field recordings of track 4 recorded at Kumbh Mela festival in Hardwar in 1986; Tibetan Horns sampled from "Tibetan Rituals" on Auvidis/Unesco. Recording in track 5 recording courtesy of Ossian K. MacLise, Sheldon Rochlin and Mystic Fire, circa 1964. Field recordings of track 7 recorded in Tangier in 1961 and dedicated to Ira Cohen. Recording of Don Cherry on track 8 at Earwax. Music in track 9 from the track "Midnight Sunrise" on the album Dancing In Your Head. All tracks engineered and assisted at Bloody Angle Studios. All tracks © Cohen/Sabbah except 3 © Extreme and © Cohen/Sabbah 7 © Trance Records and © Cohen/Sabbah 8 © Eternal River and © Cohen/Sabbah 9 © Phrase Text Music, ASCAP and © Cohen/Sabbah Lights in the Fat City appear courtesy of Extreme All photos © Ira Cohen Special thanks to John Solt, Bob Moore, Philippe Franck, Suzanne Thomas. Track 7 is titled "Allah Moulana Jilala" inside the booklet, "Allah Moulana" on the sleeve. Master Musicians of Jajouka are called "The Master Musicians of Joujouka". "At last we are on the verge of cracking the st*r language". This is a Digipak release.

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	Ira Cohen voc, 1935-2011 US photography by, voice, read by, written by, all poems and prose, album by, recorded by, music
	DJ Cheb I Sabbah , design, cover, producer, edited by, mixed by, edited by, cut up
	Naut Humon , US engineer, recorded by, ira cohen, recorded by, stephen kent
	Bill Laswell b, *1955 US recorded by, ira cohen
	Eddy Sayer perc, dr, GB ching, cymbal, bells
	Stephen Kent dgdo, perc, AU didgeridoo, didgeriddo
	Lights In A Fat City , performer
	Kenneth Newby sampler, *1956 suling, sampler, samplings, oboe, piri
	Loren Standlee fl, voc, flute
	Raja Samyana perc, voc, guitar
	Hetty MacLise org, *1931 GB organ
	Angus MacLise dr, 1938-1979 US percussion, harpsichord, cembalum
	Angus MacLise And The Tribal Orchestra , performer
	Ziska Baum voc, voice, chants
	Ed Blackwell dr, 1929-1992 US drums
	Don Cherry tr, cor, 1936-1995 US flute, keyboards, harp, dousso n'gouni
	Hans Christian vc, *1960 US recorded by, don cherry
	Ornette Coleman as, 1930-2015 US alto saxophone
	Robert Palmer cl, as, rec, 1945-1997 US clarinet
	Master Musicians Of Jajouka , performer

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