Face to face with a Bootleg = $15 CAN
Here it is: the Bootleg I suspected was floating around of an epic gig I played at Théâtre Corona in 2004 with the following musicians at Le Festival du Monde Arabe. The show was a concept gig where musicians from the Occident meet musicians/mystic sufists from the Orient:
Montrealers:
Michel Donato (contrabass - played with Oscar Peterson), Thom Gossage (drums - top canadian drummer), Thuryn Von Pranke (keyboard - internationally renown musician), Jeremiah McDade (woodwinds/multi-instrumentalist - tours the world with The McDades), and me (violin).
Morrocans - 8 morrocan sufists from Tangier & Marrakech:
Abdellah El Gourd, Abdelkader El Khiley, Lahcen Alti-Llah Khalid, Rahali, Mohamed Benothman, Ahmed Benothman, M'Barek Benothman, and Najib Senhadji
First off, I never signed any document that would allow this to come out. Beyond that, I have many mixed emotions about it all: from surprise & disdain at the fact that I had to buy a CD that I contributed to the musical phenomena of...for $15 CAN...and knowing that I, nor any of the other musicians, will never ever see a cent of it - to an ironic sense of accomplishment when my friend Joe looked over at me (as I borrowed $15 from him to buy the CD) and he said in awe: "Wow, you have bootlegs of your playing floating around?! Cool..."
One thing for certain: my investigation about the circulating rumours of an existing CD is now over. Three years ago I got in a cab and the cabbie was playing a CD that had a very distinctive violin and sax playing wrapped in a gnawa trance of Karkabouhs. I asked the guy what show it was and he proudly explained "Gnawa El Jazz". I then went through the underground arabic community rumour mill... (also labeled by the community as "le téléphone arabe") and found out that my friend Nazir had a copy of the CD. It took me a year of playing phone tag with him to get a copy of it. That was last year (2007). And just when I though it was all behind me, two weeks ago I ended up at a Nomadic Massive show and found the official bootleg on sale.
That's all folks. I'm not ready to go into a full on sermon about bootlegs and all that shit. Especially not when we live with the World Wide Web and we download everything to high heavens for little money or free. All I can say is that as a musician living in these modern times, we work/live like dogs trying to pay the bills and we scramble like rats in hopes for our music to be heard and appreciated. We are stupid enough to leave it to others to make the money off of our backs. And that's where I want to change.
Montrealers:
Michel Donato (contrabass - played with Oscar Peterson), Thom Gossage (drums - top canadian drummer), Thuryn Von Pranke (keyboard - internationally renown musician), Jeremiah McDade (woodwinds/multi-instrumentalist - tours the world with The McDades), and me (violin).
Morrocans - 8 morrocan sufists from Tangier & Marrakech:
Abdellah El Gourd, Abdelkader El Khiley, Lahcen Alti-Llah Khalid, Rahali, Mohamed Benothman, Ahmed Benothman, M'Barek Benothman, and Najib Senhadji
First off, I never signed any document that would allow this to come out. Beyond that, I have many mixed emotions about it all: from surprise & disdain at the fact that I had to buy a CD that I contributed to the musical phenomena of...for $15 CAN...and knowing that I, nor any of the other musicians, will never ever see a cent of it - to an ironic sense of accomplishment when my friend Joe looked over at me (as I borrowed $15 from him to buy the CD) and he said in awe: "Wow, you have bootlegs of your playing floating around?! Cool..."
One thing for certain: my investigation about the circulating rumours of an existing CD is now over. Three years ago I got in a cab and the cabbie was playing a CD that had a very distinctive violin and sax playing wrapped in a gnawa trance of Karkabouhs. I asked the guy what show it was and he proudly explained "Gnawa El Jazz". I then went through the underground arabic community rumour mill... (also labeled by the community as "le téléphone arabe") and found out that my friend Nazir had a copy of the CD. It took me a year of playing phone tag with him to get a copy of it. That was last year (2007). And just when I though it was all behind me, two weeks ago I ended up at a Nomadic Massive show and found the official bootleg on sale.
That's all folks. I'm not ready to go into a full on sermon about bootlegs and all that shit. Especially not when we live with the World Wide Web and we download everything to high heavens for little money or free. All I can say is that as a musician living in these modern times, we work/live like dogs trying to pay the bills and we scramble like rats in hopes for our music to be heard and appreciated. We are stupid enough to leave it to others to make the money off of our backs. And that's where I want to change.
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