![]() ![]() In a luxurious, spot-gloss, black-on-black sleeve, with an insert containing archival photographs and notes, including track-by-track commentary. ‘This release is the culmination of 60 years of Black history through sound’ (Mekala Session). It’s important that this music is preserved and shared, that the Ark lives on and keeps that tradition’ (Kamasi Washington). ![]() And The Ark, you saw so many incredible people playing this music. The sound felt like it healed spirits instead of people, especially when performed live. ‘Horace Tapscott’s music was so powerful. Highlights in-between include the surging, militant Nation Rising in 1971 - check Juan ‘Jujigwa’ Gray’s electrifying vocals - and the hard-swinging Ballad For Deadwood Dick, drawn from a gig at the Moers Jazz Festival in Germany 1995, the one and only time the Arkestra played outside southern California. Previously unreleased recordings from every decade of the Arkestra’s history, kicking off with a session in Horace Tapscott’s garage in 1961 (involving Linda Hill and Arthur Blythe, amongst others), and running right through to the new generation of young musicians, in a rambunctious closer recorded live in Los Angeles during 2019, featuring Angel Bat Dawid on bass clarinet. Pan-Afrikan Peoples Arkestra 60 Years The Village ![]()
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