1972-1974 Michael Cosmic - Peace In The World; Phill Musra Group - Creator Spaces; World's Experience Orchestra - The Prayer (2017) [3CD]

cd 01 Cosmic Michael - Peace in the World 01 Arabia 21:30 02 We Love You Malcolm X 8:09 03 Space On Space 21:46 04 Peace In The World 4:50 Продолжительность: 56:15 log cue TITLE "Peace in the World" REM DISCID 320D2F04 REM REPLAYGAIN_ALBUM_GAIN -6.41 dB REM REPLAYGAIN_ALBUM_PEAK 0.988922 FILE "01 Arabia.flac" WAVE TRACK 01 AUDIO TITLE "Arabia" PERFORMER "MIchael Cosmic" REM REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN -5.58 dB REM REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_PEAK 0.988892 INDEX 01 00:00:00 FILE "02 We Love You Malcolm X.flac" WAVE TRACK 02 AUDIO TITLE "We Love You Malcolm X" PERFORMER "Michael Cosmic" REM REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN -0.81 dB REM REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_PEAK 0.988800 INDEX 01 00:00:00 FILE "03 Space on Space.flac" WAVE TRACK 03 AUDIO TITLE "Space on Space" PERFORMER "Michael Cosmic" REM REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN -7.07 dB REM REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_PEAK 0.988922 INDEX 01 00:00:00 FILE "04 Peace in the World.flac" WAVE TRACK 04 AUDIO TITLE "Peace in the World" PERFORMER "Michael Cosmic" REM REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN -1.88 dB REM REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_PEAK 0.988708 INDEX 01 00:00:00 cd 02 Phill Musra Group - Creator Spaces 01 Egypt 11:18 02 Arabia 9:17 03 The Creator Is So Far Out 6:59 04 The Creator Spaces 10:30 05 The Creator Is So Far Out (Unreleased Version) 9:22 06 Phyllis 8:41 Продолжительность: 56:07 log cue TITLE "Creator Spaces" PERFORMER "Phill Musra Group" REM DISCID 550D2706 REM REPLAYGAIN_ALBUM_GAIN -7.52 dB REM REPLAYGAIN_ALBUM_PEAK 0.988983 FILE "01 Egypt.flac" WAVE TRACK 01 AUDIO TITLE "Egypt" REM REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN -5.93 dB REM REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_PEAK 0.988953 INDEX 01 00:00:00 FILE "02 Arabia.flac" WAVE TRACK 02 AUDIO TITLE "Arabia" REM REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN -8.95 dB REM REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_PEAK 0.988983 INDEX 01 00:00:00 FILE "03 The Creator Is So Far Out.flac" WAVE TRACK 03 AUDIO TITLE "The Creator Is So Far Out" REM REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN -7.51 dB REM REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_PEAK 0.988953 INDEX 01 00:00:00 FILE "04 The Creator Spaces.flac" WAVE TRACK 04 AUDIO TITLE "The Creator Spaces" REM REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN -8.15 dB REM REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_PEAK 0.988983 INDEX 01 00:00:00 FILE "05 The Creator Is So Far Out [Unreleased Version].flac" WAVE TRACK 05 AUDIO TITLE "The Creator Is So Far Out [Unreleased Version]" REM REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN -4.96 dB REM REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_PEAK 0.988800 INDEX 01 00:00:00 FILE "06 Phyllis.flac" WAVE TRACK 06 AUDIO TITLE "Phyllis" REM REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN -3.65 dB REM REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_PEAK 0.988770 INDEX 01 00:00:00 cd 03 World's Experience Orchestra - World's Experience Orchestra 01 The Prayer (Live, 1972) 20:23 log cue TITLE "World's Experience Orchestra" PERFORMER "World's Experience Orchestra" REM DISCID 0204C701 REM REPLAYGAIN_ALBUM_GAIN -1.08 dB REM REPLAYGAIN_ALBUM_PEAK 0.989014 FILE "01 The Prayer (Live, 1972).flac" WAVE TRACK 01 AUDIO TITLE "The Prayer (Live, 1972)" REM REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN -1.08 dB REM REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_PEAK 0.989014 INDEX 01 00:00:00 cliffordallen.blogspot ...Philip Musra, a reedman and composer living in Los Angeles. He’s not a figure who’s well-known in the jazz (or even avant-garde) community, though his work in the 1970s with his brother, multi-instrumentalist Michael Cosmic, Turkish-born drummer Huseyin Ertunc, and bassist-composer John Jamyll Jones is the stuff of curiosity and possibly legend. Part of what has made their music - available on a small scattering of privately-pressed LPs - so interesting is that it does not sound like anything else. I recently characterized the trio music (without Jones) as something like a collision between the AACM and Alan Sondheim’s Ritual 770 or another, similar wild-and-woolly artists’ collective. The group was based in Boston at the time and also worked with pianist Gene Ashton (now known as Cooper-Moore) and poet-vocalist Ntozake Shange, among others. Apparently Musra and Cosmic also spent time in Chicago studying with AACM musicians. Until recently, not much was known about their concurrent and subsequent activities........Shimmering percussion dense but hanging in midair, maniacal insistence on mini-organ chords or frantic arpeggios on a glockenspiel, and intertwining flutes and saxophones are the linguistic building blocks, and the dialect is unlike anything I had previously experienced. ... Though Musra has assembled CD-Rs of archival material to almost no distribution over the past few years, his visible output has generally remained known only to connoisseurs of rare records from a bygone era. That is until now, as what is officially his second LP as a leader in over 35 years has been released in a limited edition via the Sagittarius A-Star label. The Creator is So Far Out takes its title from a composition that also appeared on his 1974 Creator Spaces LP (Intex) as well as on the present album. Here, he's joined by drummer Don Hooker, percussionist Steven McGill and pianist Walter Barrilleaux on two sidelong originals. The core trio of Musra, Hooker and McGill has been together since last year, making live appearances on the West Coast (most often at the Heartbeat House in LA) and cutting some YouTube videos that have yet to go viral. As one would hope, there is a rather profound difference between this trio and what came before. Rather than the slightly-unhinged democracy of his 1970s free unit with Cosmic, Musra stretches out his husky and somewhat minimalist riff on Newk over dry, regular conga and trap set patterns on the lyrical, loving ode Yvonne, peppered with occasional throaty wails. The title track is taken in a bluesy direction, Barrilleaux laying down churchy chords around Hooker's loose lope and Musra's slightly wandering declarations. McGill's brief, glassy vibraphone is used as a marker between tenor and soprano solos, on which the leader's pinched tone contrasts curiously with the rhythm section's chunky groove. Boxy electric piano and flute shortly make a strange pair, as Musra runs through his arsenal. There's always been an outsider quality to Musra's music, and thirty-odd years ago that unbridled and sometimes unfocused energy probably contributed to his and his compatriots' unknown status. Now, of course, that naturalness is something many musicians work to achieve, and if Musra's music is a little more reigned in today, it's not without a folksy honesty that makes The Creator is So Far Out a charmingly humanist statement.