Die ersten Mailorder/Läden, bei denen Alabama Feeling jetzt erhältlich ist:
Volcanic TongueMuch-needed exact repro vinyl reissue of this classic free jazz side. Saxophonist/vocalist Arthur Doyle made his earth-shaking debut on Noah Howard’s Black Ark LP but this was Doyle’s first date as a leader, originally issued in a tiny run on Charles Tyler’s private Ak-Ba imprint, originals of which are now highly prized. The group line-up is suitably weird, with Doyle on tenor voice-o-phone, bass voice-o-phone and flute, Rashied Sinan and Bruce Moore on drums, Charles Stephens on trombone and Richard Williams on Fender bass, an instrumental setting that gives the whole set a ferocious No Wave edge and an odd avant-jazz atmosphere. The opening „November 8th & 9th – I Can’t Remember When“ is one of the most ferocious and forbidding slabs of amplified vocalese to come out of free jazz, laying down the blueprint that guitarist Rudolph Grey would later explode with Doyle in The Blue Humans. There’s a great dedication to the similarly time-slaying Milford Graves/Hugh Glover tag-team on „Development“ and an early take on a staple from the Doyle catalogue, „Ancestor“, that links the Aethiopian style of Sun Ra’s Arkestra with a new generation of future-primitives. Still one of the peerless free jazz wildman sides of the 20th century. Comes with a reproduction of Dan Warburton’s excellent interview with Doyle from The Wire printed on the inner sleeve. Highest possible recommendation.
Second Layer RecordsFirst official vinyl reissue of Arthur Doyle’s masterpiece Alabama Feeling which was originally released in a limited run of only 1000 copies on the AK-BA label in 1978 and has become one of the most sought after free-jazz records of all time which always commands a premium whenever it turns up for sale. Limited edition of 500 copies. Inner Sleeve features reprint of an article by Dan Warburton about Arthur Doyle that first appeared in Wire Magazine. Highly recommended.
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