Pharoah Sanders - Izipho Zam

A rare non-Impulse Records album from the early days of Pharoah Sanders.

A set that ranks right up there with his classics for that legendary label! and it's a uniquely collaborative session from 1969, one that has Sanders working with a largeish group that includes Sonny Fortune on alto sax, Sonny Sharrock on guitar, Lonnie Liston Smith on piano, Leon Thomas on vocals, and Cecil McBee on bass all coming together with a freely exploratory sort of energy.
Sanders' tenor still dominates most numbers, but not as much as on some of the Impulse sides and there's a nicely relaxed and personal feel to the whole album. The album features 3 long tracks "Prince Of Peace", which has Leon Thomas doing his "Creator Has A Master Plan" thing, and the cuts "Balance" and "Izipho Zam", the latter of which jams for a full 28 minutes.

Pharoah Sanders - Izipho Zam
1. Prince of Peace
2. Balance
3. Izipho Zam

Pharoah Sanders (tenor saxophone)
; Leon Thomas (vocals)
; Sonny Sharrock (guitar)
; Lonnie Liston Smith (keyboards)
; Cecil McBee (bass)
; Chief Bey (African drums).

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Aisha Kandisha's Jarring Effects - Shabeesation

Aisha Kandisha`s Jarring Effects, was formed in Marrakech in 1987 by Abdou El Shaheed, Habib El Malak and Pat Jabbar, to develop a Shabee crossover, influenced by diverse elements such as Gnawa, Reggae, Ragga, HipHop, Ambient, Trance, House, and experimental noises.

Under the direction of their Arabic-speaking Swiss leader and co-producer Patrick Jabbar El Shaheed, the seven members of AKJE recorded the initial sessions for SHABEESATION in 1991 and 1992 in Casablanca. A shabee (Popular Moroccan music) band at its core, the group's Indian and Arab melodies and rhythms were embellished in the initial mixing process with "found sounds" recorded to DAT by Jabbar El Shaheed.These atmospheric snippets of life in Marrakech include the thud of a knife being slapped across the back of a neck (on "Dunya"), samples of Soussi Berber musicians (also on "Dunya"), and the blasts of a gunshot (on "Nbrik"). Throughout the album's nine tracks, electric guitars and synthesizers mix with traditional Moroccan instruments including the kmenja, a violin instrument played vertically, the guimbri, a West African bass-stringed instrument, and aouuda, a small wooden flute.

The band's already complex sound was further transformed at Bill Laswell's Brooklyn studio in 1993. As co-producer, he invited Umar Bin Hassan of the Last Poets to lend his booming vocals to "Fin Roh," while Laswell himself picked up his fabled bass for several tracks. P-Funk keyboardist Bernie Worrell and rest of the groove-heavy Greenpoint Posse round out the funk. The already hypnotic fusion of Moroccan dance-pop and modern sampling technology were taken to a higher plane under Laswell's direction, and the resulting trance like melange is positively rapturous.

Aisha Kandisha's Jarring Effects - Shabeesation
side one/side two

01	A Muey A Muey	5:12
02	Dunya	2:16
03	Fin Roh	7:29
04	Nbrik	5:46
05	Nbrik Dub	3:04
06	Lahbab	7:52
07	Nenzak	8:09
08	Zin	5:53
09	El Harb	5:28

MY. Cheb Ahmed: lead voice
Cheb Qchatar: electric & acoustic guitar, bass, voice
El Habib El Malak: electric guitar, voice
S’Mohamed Kbirr: violin, mandolin, flutes, voice
Omar Jar & MY. Mansour: darbuka, percussion, voice
Pat Jabbar El Shaheed: synth, sampler, guitar noises, voice
Bill Laswell (Tracks 1,2,3,4,5,9): bass, loops, sound effects
Bernie Worrell (Tracks 4,5): Hammond organ, voice
Umar Bin Hassan (Track 3): voice
Fido K. (Track 6): synth, General Check King
Abdou El Shaheed (Track 9): vibes
MC O-Khan Antifa (Track 4): vox
Funbox Crew: additional drum sounds and loops

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V/A - Hallucinations: Psychedelic Pop Nuggets from the WEA Vaults

Hallucinations gathers 24 psych pop treasures released between 1966 and 1969, none of them available on Rhino's Nuggets boxed sets.
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Hallucinations is a true excavation of the vaults, picking overlooked album tracks and neglected singles from a cornucopia of WEA-owned labels, including Warner Bros., Cotillion, Jubilee, Valiant, Reprise, and Atco.

While the focus is on acts that released a single or forgotten album, there are a handful of recognizable names... the Association, Kim Fowley, the Electric Prunes, the Bonniwell Music Machine, the Tokens, the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band and in the Monkees' "Porpoise Song." Most of these are quite obscure, and it's even arguable that because they were released on major labels (or at the very least, high-profile labels), the songs haven't been given the attention or respect as psychedelia released on smaller, regional labels.
Hallucinations is a much more interesting listen than the average psychedelic rarities collection since these underground ideas are applied in bizarre, unpredictable ways to professionally written, melodic songs that were designed for mainstream radio.
Hallucinations is overtly trippy and psychedelic, filled with fuzz guitars, echoes, phased vocals, organs, studio effects, and minor-key drones. This brings it closer to familiar Nuggets territory, but there's a much heavier emphasis on production here than there is on anything on the original double-vinyl Nuggets or Rhino's original box set

Hallucinations makes a convincing argument that psychedelic pop is at its best when it's pure, undiluted ear candy like this. It's not just a good introduction to the charms of psychedelic pop; it holds its own next to any collection of freaky, guitar-fueled garage-psychedelic rarities

HALLUCINATIONS
side one/side two
HALLUCINATIONS- Baker Knight & The Knightmares
IT'S LOVE- The Misty Wizards
BREAK AWAY- The Next Exit
LOOKING AT A BABY-The Collectors
HER NAME IS MELODY- Adrian Pride
PANDORA'S GOLDEN HEEBIE JEEBIES- The Association
LANTERN GOSPEL- The World Column
WHO PLANTED THORNS IN MISS ALICE'S GARDEN- Tom Northcott
MAN OF STRAW- John Wonderling
THE WHITE PONY- Ellen Margulies
STRAIGHT ARROW- Jeff Thomas
MY MIND GOES HIGH - M.C.2
HELL WILL TAKE CARE OF HER- Brass Buttons
LUCIFER- The Salt
STRANGERS FROM THE SKY- Kim Fowley
ANTIQUE DOLL- The Electric Prunes
ASTROLOGICALLY INCOMPATIBLE- The Bonniewell Music Machine
HOW NICE?-The Tokens
YOUR LOVE BELONGS TO EVERYONE- The Coronados
THAT'S THE WAY IT'S GONNA BE- Lee Mallory
HOUSE OF GLASS- The Glass Family
WILDFLOWERS- The Holy Mackerel
PORPOISE SONG- The Monkees
SMELL OF INCENSE- The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band

V/A - PASSED NORMAL" VOL. 6&7

This two-CD collection of mostly unavailable recordings offers something for all who like their music on the fringe. Canterbury and space/psychedelic sounds are represented by Short Wawe, (featuring Hugh Hopper, ex-Soft Machine), Didier Malherbe (ex Gong), Pip Pyle and Phil Miller (both ex-National Health/Hatfield and the North), Daevid Allen & the Magic Brothers (former Gong members do space rock cum Terry Riley).The rest floats between avant rock, lo-fi improv to the Balinese Monkey chant.

To call this anthology eclectic is quite the understatement. Nimbus sound like a mixture of Univers Zero and Von Zamla (which is to say, they are terrific!), whereas Maestro Subgum & the Whole does an a cappella number that sounds like an avant rock version of the Bobs. Glenn Philips dishes up some solid rock guitar with a slightly quirky edge, while Mike Hovancsek cranks out cosmic third worldisms with electronics and home-made/found instruments. All this plus Pere Ubu, the Sediments, Peter Blegvad, the Clubfoot Orchestra, Arthur Brown, Amy Denio, Ron Geesin and many more...

"PASSED NORMAL" VOL. 6&7
part one/part two/part three

DISC 1: VOLUME 6:

1. Tracksuit Vendetta - Holy Joy

2. Narnia - Mark Robson/Graham Clark/Fred Gianelli

3. Mr. Mr. Po - Men & Volts

4. Nyckelfiguren - Nimbus

5. Sticky Ticky Liquid - Maestro Subgum & The Whole

6. Burn - Skot Lee Wilson

7. Dr. Gray's Thank You - Ron Geesin

8. Driver's Seat - Peter Blegvad

9. Star Of Tomato, The - Big Butter

10. Sojourn - Winston Damon

11. Hiroshima - Steve Burson

12. Cobra - Henry Kaiser/Glenn Phillips

13. Big Beat - Tone Dogs

14. Mr. Peterskin - Juliet Armstrong

15. Plastic Museum Fiasco - Mike Havancsek (excerpt)

16. Petrified - Pere Ubu

17. Gymnopedie #1 - Tommy O'Donnell-

DISC 2: VOLUME 7:

1. Spa Club - Amy Denio/FRED

2. Private Joke - Maestro Subgum & The Whole

3. Downdance - Las Toallitas

4. Levitation - Kampec Dolores

5. Tiny Pyramids - Clubfoot Orchestra

6. I Love You - The Rudy Schwartz Project

7. Fighting - Voodoo Mark Band

8. Nonsense - Frank Pahl

9. Wanna Make Something Of It - Steve Horowitz & The Code

10. Juices Of Love - Arthur Brown

11. I One - Paul Rucker

12. 8 Wet Zeros - Voltaire & The Molemen

13. Nan's True Hole - Short Wave

14. Cone Of Silence, The - Men & Volts

15. All-American Mom - The Sediments

16. Wayland Smithy - Daevid Allen & The Magick Brothers

17. Monkey Chant - Kecak

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Loop Guru - Duniya : The Intrinsic Passion of Mysterious Joy

LOOP GURU
A spicy transmission form.

LOOP GURU
takes you through Zenbowls and quantum metallics.
A hypno-rhythmic therapy,mountain chants and rolling inflections.
A transcendent jungle of rhythm, spice and bell beats
Loop Guru... synthesizers that buzz, bleep and jolt the dance floor, the hypnotic tones of sitars, kora, tabla and gamelan instruments drift in and out of the mix. Though this exotic array defines the album at its surface, closer attention,this is dance music (techno, ambient, trance...take your pick) and should be judged as such. The hip-hop breakbeats of 'Jungle A' and 'The Fine Line Between Passion and Fear' spin outwards & 'Aphrodite's Shoes' dilutes the sound of Jamaican dub with exotic found sounds
Loop Guru ride these rhythms with a teasing sonic payoff. Eclipsing everything that precedes it,the staggering album closer 'The Third Chamber (Pt. 4)' clocks in at over 20 minutes.

Loop Guru - Duniya : The Intrinsic Passion of Mysterious Joy
Side one / side two

Hymn
Sussan 11
Jungle a
Through cinemas
Bangdad
The fine line between passion & fear
Senseless
Freedom from the known
Aphrodite's Shoe
Under Influence
Tchengo
The Third Chamber (Part 4)

Personnel: Cat Von Trapp, Nidahl Bulbul (vocals); Jamuud (vocals, Balinese dove whistle, noseflute, kaval, suling, trumpet, synthesizer, Zen bowls, percussion, bells, bonang, sound effects, tape loops); Ravi (kora); Salman Gita (suling, synthesizer, percussion, tape loops, sound effects); Psycho Karaoki (bass); Count Dubulah (bass, drums); Chip Carpenter, The Pleasure Dome (percussion); Richard Horowitz (samples); Jim Chase (tape loops); Zahrema, Speechless, Mad Jym, Sussan, No Odd Mass, The Vague Blur, Hhamid.
Engineers: Paul Tipler, Paul Madden, Graham Holdaway.

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Band Of Pain - You're Miss Fortune

Band Of Pain is Steve Pittis of Splintered & Dirter Promotions. He released one LP and numerous singles prior to the release of the highly acclaimed debut CD - "You're Miss Fortune" in 1996. Band Of Pain work in the avant garde electronic scene and make some of the most beautiful and disturbing dark ambience around. Steve was commissioned for the soundtrack to a Redemption film and this is a genre where his creative ability will flourish. "You're Miss Fortune" remains one of the most powerful albums of it's genre.
Band Of Pain - You're Miss Fortune

A Multitude of Sins
The Time When
Still Sulking
Forcefed Obsession
4’33”
Blast # 1 (Remix)
Beacon House
Comedown 5:30 a.m.
The Erosion of Beauty


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TREASURE ISLE IN DUB - RARE DUBS 1970 - 1978

Treasure Isle Studio’s,33 Bond Street, was one of the main contenders to the Studio 1 crown.So many hits came from it’s wooded loft premises that it seemed every track was destined to become a hit, propelled by the Trojan himself Mr Duke Reid

1968-1969 saw the beat slowing down and reggae was evolving into Rocksteady and again Duke had his finger on the pulse.Working with guitarist Ernest Ranglin and the great sax player Tommy McCook and the Supersonics, the hits flowed from the studio.The Paragons ‘Wear you to the Ball’,Alton Ellis’s ‘Rock Steady’, The Melodians ‘Last train to Expo’ and The Technique’s rendition of the Curtis Mayfield classic ‘Queen Majesty’ were all big hits of the day.Getting released on Reid’s own labels and on Trojan [ named after his Sound System ] in the UK.

The musical style would change again around 1970,but the ever resourceful Reid would apply his tunes and start a new genre, the DJ Sound.By using his classic backing tracks and interspersing the dubbed vocal along side his Sound System DJ’s rants and raves, his tunes became hits once more.The irrepressible U Roy cut ‘Wake this Town’ a version of Alton Ellis’s ‘Girl I’ve Got a Date’,’Rule the Nation’, rode the Techniques ‘You Don’t Care’ and ‘Wear you to the Ball’ the Paragons hit of the same name, became three hits in a row in the Jamaican charts...an unheard of feet....This collection brings together a set of rare dubs recorded at the legendary studio with such classics as the for mentioned ‘Queen Majesty’,Alton Ellis’s ‘I’m Just a Guy’,The Ethiopians ‘Everything Crash’.All great tunes and classic rhythms,the atmosphere and the guidance of the seasoned engineers Byron Smith and Syd Bucknor alongside the top musicians,set the tone for these lost till now recordings.Arthur ‘Duke’ Reid died in 1974 but his legacy lives on through the music.His Treasure Isle Studio’s,inspiring all that used it .... enjoy ...

TREASURE ISLE IN DUB - RARE DUBS 1970 - 1978

1.EVERYDAY IS DUB DAY.
2.THIS OLD DUB OF MINE.
3.CARPENTER DUB.
4.WHY DUB IN SPRING.
5.MAJESTY DUB.
6.JUST A DUB.
7.DUB YOU MADLY.
8. LET THE DUB GO.
9.EVERYTHINGS DUB.
10.PRISONER DUB.
11.DUBBING YOU.
12.I’M YOUR DUB.
13.DUB SATISFACTION.
14.IT’S RAINING DUB.

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You & Me on a Jamboree

Herbert Huncke - from dream to dream.

Herbert Huncke is the pivotal figure in the development of beat literature.
Huncke's use of the carny term beat in his stories of riding the rails in
the thirties inspired Jack Kerouac to chronicle his own tales of rootless
wandering in On the Road.
Huck, whom you'll see on Times Square, somnolent and alert, sad, sweet, dark, holy. Just out of jail. Martyred. Tortured by sidewalks, starved for sex and companionship, open to anything, ready to introduce a new world with a shrug.-Jack Kerouac
Alcohol is not his habit but he'll kindly allow you to buy him a drink at Montero's. His voice is deep, gentle and musical. He never forgets his manners and you'd rarely think of him as Huncke the Junkie. He respects law and obeys none of it - Frank McCourt
He turned William Burroughs onto heroin, and
appears as a character in Burroughs Junky, the first step in an immersion
in addict culture that would eventually produce Naked Lunch. And the image
of Huncke¹s shoes filled with blood tramping 42nd Street gave Allen Ginsberg
the very model of the angel-headed hipster in his seminal poem Howl. But
most beat fans do not realize that before he even met the beat lit
triumvirate, Huncke was writing in a journal he always carried with him.
The
stories that come down to us, depicting lyrical childhood memories, loss of
innocence, misfits of society, petty crime, incarceration, junk sickness and
the downtown art scene, reveal that Huncke's legendary storytelling skills
were infused with their own touch of the poet.

The Herbert Huncke Reader is one of those books that you just don’t want to put down but you equally don’t want to read it too fast because that means you might get to the end and then there is nothing left to read.buy it here & here

This reader contains the full texts of Herbert Huncke's out-of-print works, "Huncke's Journal" and "The Evening Sun Turned Crimson", and a wide selection from his other published and unpublished poems, stories, memoirs, letters and diaries.

"Huncke's greatest crime was that he was an unreconstructed, unredeemed drug addict who made no apologies for his behavior, who had learned from hard experience that those used drugs in America were not simply downtrodden but truly among the damned. Next to blacks and poor immigrants, they were the most despised and persecuted outcasts of the society, without rights, beneath dignity, beyond the pale of compassion. The word that Huncke coined for such a condition was 'beat.'"

- Martin Torgoff

"I always followed the road of least resistance. I just continued to do what I wanted. I didn't weigh or balance things. I started out this way and I never really changed."

"I wish I could say I'd hit upon the answers to the great mysteries of life. But it doesn't make any more sense to me than it did on day one." -Herbert Huncke

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Guilty of Everything
Huncke’s Journal

Irving Rosenthal. SHEEPER[Excerpt]
The book includes fascinating accounts of Herbert Huncke and Alex Trocchi.

Herbert Huncke - from dream to dream

1 - The Lights Are Shining On Me
2 - Louis
3 - I Try To Tell Things
4 - The Evening Sun Turned Crimson
5 - Listen To Me
6 - Elsie
7 - On Heroin
8 - Cheers
9 - New Orleans
10 - Impressions
11 - On Being A Romantic
12 - The Savior
13 - On Language
14 - Beat/nik
15 - On Joan Burroughs (with the bells of Brugge)

Huncke-Times
Herbert Huncke, the unsung Beat, finally gets his due
Huncke and Louis/ A Video Documentary by Laki Vazakas

Herbert Huncke's Introduction to Pipe Dreams
Interview with Herbert Huncke By Johnny Strike
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