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the Faruq box
A special 26 only copies box, with an extra LP: the tenor sax of Faruq Z Bey sounds really wonderful here – blown soulfully and openly, with a depth that draws on all of Bey's many years in jazz, yet never falls into any sort of easy, overdone modes! Instead, there's a vitality here that reminds us of sounds that Charles Gayle or Arthur Doyle were giving us over a decade ago – nicely unstructured in the setting of this loose quartet, yet still focused with a sense of soul that's undeniable! The …
West Africa Tour (Sierra Leone, Liberia & Guinea), April 1985
special box in 26 copies, made in high quality leather various African objects/artworks from various African tribes, stunning booklet with many rare photos (30) of the Tour (mostly color and b&w) cola nuts (to break the colanut with somebody african saying, which means to make friendship) an extra one-sided LP (I side) on gold and gold/green wax, - ALL recordings available here for the 1st time! "One of music's most amazing powers is its ability to tell a story. In the case of The African Tapes,…
Live at the Detroit Art Space
Another rare experience: Faruq in a 4et date with a piano player (nominated outstanding jazz pianist in the Detroit Metro Times Music awards) !? yes, live ! (Label press)
Primal waters
Fresh/new live studio rec. by one of the greatest jazz Ensemble around these days. (Label Press)
Synchron
"Lost big D eclectic jazz from the late 80's ! not much info/track titles about it ?! seems an unissued studio date who was planned for release but never happened, until now... it feauture rare appearances by members of Sphere (Vreeland/Dana) who unfortunatly released only one fantastic album back then on Strata... and Ron English who also rec. an LP for Strata under his name (but never issued on wax) and played with Lyman Woodard (drummer Leonard King was also part of the Organization), Wendell…
Muharram 1392
**restocked, few copies left** Almost sold out in pre-sale, act fast! As this album is a treasure, a minblowing reissue (dated 1972) of an intense, spontaneous droney improvisation and the complex Michael Ranta's chiming rhythms interlaced with trance-alike collective passages. It’s a monster! ""...tomorrow i will send you the CD of a very strange anarcho spontaneously improvised sound tableau. it is one of the very first musical projects with Ranta, when we met in Egypt in 1972. i didn't listen…
Stalllife
A spare, dark, improvised performance between Hartmut Geerken and Valeri Scherstjanoi – recorded at the start of the 21st Century, but with a depth that goes back to Geerken's earlier work! As with some of his best recordings, there's a quality here that's almost more focused on sound than music – lots of unusual percussive moments and ringing tones – shaped by the freedom of the performance, and slightly augmented by some wordless vocal utterances too! The record is only single-sided – a very u…
Brasilia in waitawhile
"It has always been one of my desires to do an album with Brazilian musicians/flavours... i remember years ago trying to do a free-funk-samba album with saxophonist Ivo Perelman which unfortunatly never happened ?! when Hartmut told me about a very special number that he did with Don Moye and musicians/artists from Brazil under the effect of Santo Daime's sacrament, i sensed that this might be what i was waiting for so long... warning: you'll NOT be able to hear this music seated... hip DJs took…
Love Life & Games
RESTOCKED: I wrote these tunes in 1968 when Micheal Cosmic and i were students at the AACM School of Music. i revised Love life & games in 2008. i had a band going on then with Micheal Cosmic. we played students concerts with Roscoe Mitchell. he also taught us our reeds. i had music theory with Anthony Braxton and Richard Muhal Abrams..." Phill Musra
Live in Berlin, Ballhaus 1987
Thomas ! Thomas wrote me one day and said to me to check out some audio called So long ago in Berlin... wow, i immediatly fell in love with that sound, really 60's and melancholic in a way... those were the rec. of a mini Tour that Norris Jones set up with his new sextet (2 gigs in Berlin/2 more in NYC). Sirone was one of the most respected bassist coming out of the New Thing, having played with all the greats: Albert Ayler, Archie Shepp, Marion Brown, Pharoah Sanders, Cecil Taylor, Noah Howard,…
Live at Lelli's
Roy Brooks ! what can i say about one of the greatest jazz drummers ?! a man who paid his dues, who lived an hard life...who's Detroit Jazz ! started to play in the 50's with Yusef Lateef, spent 5 years with Horace Silver doing the hard and the bop, then with Dexter Gordon, Lee Morgan, Jackie McLean, two years with Mingus, played with Max Roach M'Boom... plus many others... in the 80's he formed The Artistic Truth & The Aboriginal Percussion Choir... the rec. on this album is even more precious …
Live in Nashville & Louisville
arthur doyle- tenor sax, voice; vin paternostro- roland 505; ed wilcox- percussions; leslie q- bass ;rec. march 26 & 27, 2004 at springwater tavern & artswatch...the final available rec. i have left of Arthur, unfortunatly ?! i kept it for the last since i find it a really special goody: a more intimate 4et live dates from 2004
Revenge of the one-eyed hyena
Moody, open, and airy – not really a jazz record, but one that feels quite improvisational in nature – although more in the ways you might get from an extended minimalist jam at start of the 70s! Instrumentation here includes synth, music box, violins, guitar, kalimba, and toy keyboard – but often used in these really abstracted ways, so that the sounds float out in the air, and are circled back a bit – and getting nice and noisy by the end! (Limited edition.)
Acid Birds II
RESTOCKED Fresh from a successful US Tour, here it comes Acid Birds vol. II, after their 1st release on qbico. It's a live set rec. exactly one year ago at a club with the best ISSUE, attitude... a two sides long track, where you'd hear electronic & instrumental birds getting excited by the terrific drumming of Andrew Barker... it's not an easy combination jazz & electronics but the acid birds surely succeed in bringing jazz music to the next level, that one called future ! see those wings ?! th…
Slow Motion
Deeper into... Schnitzler's discography (the missing link, finally !): the unreleased soundtrack to an underground movie made in 1972. classic Schnitzler (rec. same year as the electronic masterpiece Rot) and for sure among the most fascinating music ever received from Con... so long ! ah, and don't worry if you'll have the illusion of being an illusion ,while listening... it's just a Maya
Live in Poland
2LP black vinyls, with insert, design by EP. Limited edition of 200 copies. "I had the pleasure to invite this xholfull trio back in 1998 (same period of this recording) and to me is still the best and most exciting jazz trio I had ever seen/heard live! I remember that it was organized in a famous squat place, but 1st time for a jazz concert. People went crazy, can't forget the total silence during Denis' solos (du doooom) and everybody was around him after it ended, offering this & that,…
Cairo Free Jazz Band
Restocked, few copies left: the privately pressed Cairo Free Jazz Ensemble 1st album had always been considered as a kind of legendary album, difficult to find (Hartmut confirmed to me that it was pressed in Egypt in only 200 copies)... here are available for the 1st time ever the sole other recordings left of this mythical Ensemble ! it all started with Salah Ragab & the Cairo Jazz Band playing jazz standards and new compositions in the end of the 60's... then, with the arrival of Hartmut, they…
Father Yod And The Spirit Of 76
restocked, very last copies : awesome LP reissue on Qbico's new label Sagittarius A-Star, unreleased before and limited to 200 copies only "one day i was reading a book about the Milky Way... the name for the black hole at the center of our galaxy was called Sagittarius A-Star... ding ! it just sounded perfect ! later on i was checking out Father Yod wonderful book to find out the right pic for the cover... could i have ever envisioned something better for the front cover of the A-Star rocket #0…
Live at Red Creek, Rochester, NY
lucky restock, VERY few copies left...A special friend said to me that he waited a while before unhidden the most precious gem from his vast Sun Ra's archive... Big bang!" Recorded August 11, 1986. Sun Ra- piano, synth, voice, Tyrone Hill- trombone, Marshall Allen- alto sax, flute, percussion, John Gilmore- tenor sax, clarinet, Ronald Wilson- tenor sax, Eloe Omoe- alto sax, bass clarinet, James Jacson- Infinity drum, Pat Patrick-alto sax, electric bass, Billy Bang- violin, percussion, Bruce…
The creator is far out
Phil Musra, Micheal Cosmic, Hüseyin Ertunç; Intex/Cosmic labels... these are LEGENDARY names from the US underground jazz music scene of the 70's... They released one LP under each name and if you got one of those rare gems, you'd easily feel LUCKY! Musra album came out back in 1974, more then 35 years ago... so we're really pleased here at Sagittarius A-Star to be able to present the come back of such an underrated musician, who got style, a unique one for sure! His compositions are reall…