Effectively their third album, with seven songs from 1969, and seven instrumentals from the same vintage, completed in 1998, plus an outtake and a soundtrack piece. A fine addition to their two essential albums.

Hyperreal treatments of live woodwinds, banjo, voice, lap steel, piano, guitar.

Bagpiping meets Partch DIY and the singing of Pandit Pran Nath, at the grass roots of Fluxus, in an empty swimming pool. Long, slowly building drones, lightly processed, with snatches of melody. Check it out.

Another key document of the Los Angeles radical jazz underground, by way of Outernational Sounds.
A tour de force of spiritually energised independent jazz music, this is pianist and composer Kaeef Ruzadun Ali’s debut recording as leader of the Creative Arts Ensemble, as it emerged from Horace Tapscott’s legendary Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra,
PAPA mainstays like reedsman Dadisi Komolafe, drummer Woody ‘Sonship’ Theus and altoist Gary Bias are here; besides such veterans as Henry ‘The Skipper’ Franklin on bass, and George Bohannon on trombone. Kaeef’s sister B.J. Crowley provides visionary, sanctified singing.
Classic spiritual jazz, available again as an LP for the first time since 1981; with the recordings at full length on vinyl for the first time ever.

Besides all-new recordings, this features two fond souvenirs from Valle’s late-seventies sojourn in California, out of reach of the military dictatorship at home: Feels So Good, a precious two-step collaboration with Leon Ware, initiated in 1979 but unfinished till now; and a fresh version of Life Is What It Is, sunny AOR disco originally written for the Chicago 13 album, now with upped tempo and a deeper groove.
The rhythm section is Alex Malheiros and Renato Massa, from Azymuth, and percussionist Ian Moreira.

Alternatively — Terry Callier Boys Tear Up Bacharach And David With Charles Stepney At The Desk And Phil Upchurch, The Chess Strings And The Pharoahs All On Fire. Great, showy soul music from 1972.

Startling, exhilarating concrete music by this experimental Canadian film-maker, beloved of Stanley Kubrick and George Lucas. (A homage to him is embedded in Star Wars.)