First Pan-African Cultural Festival
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| - | The Symposium of the '''First Pan-African Cultural''' Festival was held in [[Algiers]] from 21st July to Ist August 1969. The Festival was organized by the [Organization of African Unity] (OAU). Host to the festivities was "His Excellency, [[Houari Boumédienne]], President of the Revolutionary Council, President of the Council of Ministers of the Algerian People's Democratic Republic, and current Chairman of the Conference of Heads of State and Government of the Organization of African Unity"; Algeria's military dictator, who had come to power in a blood-spattered coup. With the Icarian rhetorical style of Soviet-type bureaucrats, Mohamed Seddik Benyahia, the Algerian minister of Information (i.e. the minister of Censorship), said in the inaugural speech: "We have always believed that independence was not an end in itself, that it should promote the birth of new men, completely liberated and free. The task is to create, in each one of us, a new mentality, a new way of seeing the world (...)". In other words: national liberation should be the first step towards ideological brainwashing. The African Dream had already started to go sour. | + | The '''First Pan-African Cultural Festival''' was a music festival held in [[Algiers]] from [[July 21]] to [[August 1]] [[1969]]. The Festival was organized by the [Organization of African Unity] (OAU). The festival was hosted by [[Houari Boumédienne]], Algeria's military dictator, who had come to power in a military [[coup]]. |
| - | == External links == | + | The musical sessions were recorded and released by the French [[BYG/Actuel]] label under the title "Live At The Pan-African Festival". Given the conditions in which the recordings were made, it comes as no surprise that the sound quality is rather poor. [[Sunny Murray]]'s drumming and Silva's double bass are completely drowned in the trance-inducing fury of the massed Algerian and Touareg percussion: drums, tambourines and karkabous (metallic castagnettes). [[Dave Burrell]]'s piano can be heard only occasionally. The wind-instrument players - Shepp himself, Thornton and Moncur III - improvise their lines over the North-African rhythms, but the jazzmen's playing seems a little lost at the roaring sea of North-African percussion. |
| - | *[http://surrealdocuments.blogspot.com/2007/07/archie-shepp-live-at-pan-african.html Archie Shepp - Live At The Pan-African Festival] | ||
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The First Pan-African Cultural Festival was a music festival held in Algiers from July 21 to August 1 1969. The Festival was organized by the [Organization of African Unity] (OAU). The festival was hosted by Houari Boumédienne, Algeria's military dictator, who had come to power in a military coup.
The musical sessions were recorded and released by the French BYG/Actuel label under the title "Live At The Pan-African Festival". Given the conditions in which the recordings were made, it comes as no surprise that the sound quality is rather poor. Sunny Murray's drumming and Silva's double bass are completely drowned in the trance-inducing fury of the massed Algerian and Touareg percussion: drums, tambourines and karkabous (metallic castagnettes). Dave Burrell's piano can be heard only occasionally. The wind-instrument players - Shepp himself, Thornton and Moncur III - improvise their lines over the North-African rhythms, but the jazzmen's playing seems a little lost at the roaring sea of North-African percussion.
