Ayler at his most intense, with Sonny Murray and Gary Peacock in Copenhagen.
This is the 1964 recording entitled Ghosts for its original release on Debut.

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Beau Wanzer and Shawn O’Sullivan.

Available on vinyl for the first time in forty years, Horace Tapscott’s burning, spiritualised 1978 set is a masterpiece of the Los Angeles jazz underground.
It’s drawn from two studio sessions in April 1978, one at Hollywood Sage and Sound, one at United Western. The latter session added a string section, which can be heard on the moody Cal Massey composition Nakatini Suite and Jesse Sharps’ swinging modal trip Peyote Song No. III, with its swirling soprano solo. In keeping with the communal nature of the Arkestra, the other two compositions, The Call and Quagmire Manor at Five A.M. are also by Arkestra members. But at the centre of the music is the builder of the Ark, the visionary whose original call to action started a movement whose legacy continues to this day — Horace Tapscott.
180g audiophile vinyl in a painstakingly reproduced sleeve.
Heed The Call!

Stone killer Californian funk from 1972, raw and banging, with juddering bass, two tough breaks, and desperately soulful, utterly compelling falsetto pleading.
A proper reissue this time around, courtesy of Ubiquity.

The two Arkestra stalwarts in 2016 with rising star Jamie Saft on keys, bassist Trevor Dunn and drummer Balazs Pandi; also the great trombonist Roswell Rudd, in one of his very last recordings. Nicely presented.

New recordings of self-styled ‘world tribal musette’ by this long-standing orchestra fronted by the ukulele of Dominique Cravic and the banjo of Robert Crumb. The valse musette of 1920s Paris, blending with Congolese rumba, gypsy jazz, Hindu waltzes, Argentine tango, blues, Paso Doble, chanson réaliste…
‘The Primitifs Du Futur travel on sound waves back in time to the early twentieth century and make the world seem like a far better place than it ever actually was. I cant get the band’s music off my turntable or out of my head. Accordion, mandolin, harmonica, saxophone, musical saw, and beautiful haunting melodies — what’s not to love? Even their sad songs make me happy’ (Art Spiegelman).

A stunning complement to Theme De Yoyo!
Panou was an activist and actor, in Paris from Benin; he plays a refuse collector in Jean-Luc Godard’s Weekend. His texts here cross existentialism and Black Power like a knockabout Richard Wright, with an extra shot of anti-colonialism. Recorded by Pierre Barouh for Saravah, in the same months as its classic Comme A La Radio LP with Brigitte Fontaine, furthering the AEC’s rowdily brilliant elaborations of Leroy Jones’ Black Dada Nihilismus.
It’s a scorcher; hotly recommended.

Hip hop trooper Davy D’s vinyl debut, in late 1983. Still buzzing and fresh.

Two disco classics — Groovin’ You’ and Till You Take My Love (with Merry Clayton) — and the blissed-out jazz-funk of Modaji, featuring Hubert Laws.

Surprisingly the first time on 12” for this brassy, string-laden, modern/Northern crossover classic, more Philly than NYC. Beautifully written by Thom Bell, expertly remixed by Tom Moulton.