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ACL 048LP
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Reissue, originally released in 1970. An original vinyl copy of Spirits & Worm is among the rarest collectors' item LPs around. This item was released briefly in 1969, primarily in the New York City area and only a few copies got out before it disappeared. The legend goes that the album was pulled from distribution because the cover art (a couple of goats resting on a tombstone) was rumored to be satanic. A listen to the music, a collection of love songs with a Jefferson Airplane and Santana type sound, quickly dispels such associations. "Fanny Firecracker" and "You and I Together", featuring the Grace Slick-like vocals of Adrianne Maurici, came out as a single. Other group members were Carlos Hernandez (primary songwriter), Artie Hicks Jr., Alfred Scotti, and Tommy Parris. Don't know any more about them. Collectors of obscure vintage psychedelia shouldn't miss out on this.
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ACL 010LP
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Vinyl reissue of this 1965 debut album from Edu Lobo, one of the towering giants of Brazilian music. Released on the seminal Elenco Records label, producer Aloysio de Oliveira enlisted the help of the greatest bossa jazz group ever, the Tamba Trio (led by Luiz Eça), to help launch the gifted singer, songwriter Lobo into the spotlight. As well as his own classic compositions, Lobo also collaborated with the greatest lyricists such as Vinicius de Moraes and the radical left-wing film-maker Ruy Guerra, to produce some of the most important songs in Brazilian music, songs such as "Reza", "Arrastao", "Boranda" (all featured here) and many more. His complex music helping pave the way for the emergence of the new musical movement, Musica Popular Brasileira (MPB), which replaced bossa nova in the mid-1960s. 180 gram vinyl.
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ACL 044LP
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Vinyl reissue of The Mike Westbrook Concert Band's Marching Song Vol. 1, recorded and released in 1969 on Decca's Deram label. Originally released as a double-LP (also sold as two separate records), and therefore quite unusual for the time, especially for jazz. It comprised a suite of compositions by Mike Westbrook, with three tracks on Vol. 2 (ACL 045LP) written by John Surman, and based on the concept of the vainglorious futility of war. Vol. 1's "Hooray!" begins with roaring crowd noise, years before sampling was even heard of, and not dissimilar to the opening of Weather Report's "Nubian Sundance" on Mysterious Traveller (1974). Then come the drums, beating in unison courtesy of John Marshall and Alan Jackson. "Landscape" begins with Westbrook alone on piano but a highlight of this longish piece is the arco bass duet featuring Barre Phillips and Harry Miller sounding surprisingly like a string quartet to the unaware. "Waltz (for Joanna)" is a gorgeous piece of writing embellished by a peerless soaring soprano solo by Surman. Following a somber short ensemble link track, "Landscape II", Paul Rutherford produces an appropriately free trombone solo on "Other World".
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ACL 045LP
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Vinyl reissue of The Mike Westbrook Concert Band's Marching Song Vol. 2, recorded and released in 1969 on Decca's Deram label. It's hardly surprising that Mike Westbrook reigned supreme in the latter quarter of the 1960s and early '70s. His big band was voted top of that category in the late-lamented Melody Maker British jazz polls for 1970 (and the two years either side of that). In the same year, his third album, Marching Song, recorded a year earlier came third in the category "LP Of The Year" (the number one album that year was John McLaughlin's seminal Extrapolation, so there was exceptionally strong competition). This album, recorded and released in 1969 on Decca's Deram label, was a double LP (also sold as two separate records), and therefore quite unusual for the time, especially for jazz. It comprised a suite of compositions by Westbrook, with three tracks on Vol. 2 written by John Surman, and based on the concept of the vainglorious futility of war.
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