condition (record/cover): NM / VG+ (light ring wear)

Gatefold sleeve. Insert and obi included.

Material from Albert Ayler's 1969 sessions, issued by Impulse! after his death under a title that pulls no punches. Blues shuffles, rock rhythms, bagpipes - yes, bagpipes - and some of the rawest, most exposed saxophone of his late period. It is a strange and haunting record, assembled from a moment when Ayler was searching hard for new ground, and precisely that searching quality is what keeps revealing new corners decades on. Not the first Ayler album anyone should own, but for those already deep in the story, an indispensable and genuinely moving chapter. Japanese pressing, clean and quiet, which suits this fragile music well.