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Khan Jamal Creative Arts Ensemble
Drumdance to the Motherland
Eremite
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$14
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Very welcome reissue of vibraphonist Khan Jamal's legendary Dogtown Records LP. Four deep cuts that reside in a neighborhood somewhere between Sun Ra's Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy and the East New York Ensemble de Music's At the Helm. Artwork by the underground legend Dr. E. Pelikan Chalto seals the deal.
"There's not another record on the planet that sounds even remotely like vibraphonist Khan Jamal's eccentric, one-of-a-kind masterpiece, Drumdance to the Motherland. In its improbable fusion of free jazz expressionism, black psychedelia, & full-on dub-like production techniques, Drumdance remains a bracingly powerful outsider statement thirty-four years after it was recorded live at the catacombs club in Philadelphia in 1972. Comparisons to Sun Ra, King Tubby, Phil Cohran & BYG/Actuel merely hint at the cosmic otherness conjured by the band & by recording engineer Mario Falana's real-time "enhancements." The first edition of three hundred copies, issued by Jamal in 1973 on the local Philadelphia label Dogtown, was barely distributed outside the city's limits. Since then, Drumdance has assumed a mythic status among the very few aficionados, Ebay mutants, & heads who know of it at all. Hallelujah that it can finally be heard outside their murky inner-sanctums!" - Eremite
Credits:
Khan Jamal: vibraphone, marimba, clarinet
Alex Ellison: drums, percussion
Dwight James: drums, glockenspiel, clarinet
Billy Mills: fender bass, double bass
Monnette Sudler: guitar, percussion
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