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- Idrissa's Dream
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- Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids
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- STRUT286D
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- 18 November 2022
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Strut continues their work from the archives of Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids with a first ever vinyl release of Ackamoor’s debut avant-garde / Afro-jazz recordings from 1971 with The Collective, based out of Yellow Springs, Ohio.
The group was formed after Ackamoor had returned to Antioch from a spell in L.A. under the wing of influential saxophonist Charles Tyler. Pianist Lester Knibbs had been appointed to the Antioch college music department as an assistant professor and had followed a similar path to avant-garde pioneer, Cecil Taylor. “They both came from the classical tradition,” explains Ackamoor, “but also understood jazz and avant-garde improvisation.” Ackamoor and Knibbs started as a duet before Ackamoor met three musicians from Wright-Patterson Air Force base near Dayton. Ackamoor continues, “They would come to Yellow Springs because they could find marijuana there. They were called ‘the three Steves’: Steve Maniscoso, an Italian, Steve Rumboat, a white American and Oakland Steve, a black musician playing flute. Oakland Steve left the air force and then Margaux Simmons arrived – that is the quintet featured on these recordings. You also hear a vocalist called Peggy Pettitt, another Antioch student who became quite famous in movies; she starred in the film Black Girl soon afterwards in 1972.
This concert is the only professional recording of The Collective from a performance at Kelly Hall in August 1971. “After this, I think the Steves went back to Wright-Patterson,” continues Ackamoor, “and The Collective just naturally evolved and transitioned into the Pyramids. I felt like The Collective was my birth as a composer; we created such a tapestry of sound because Lester had the talent to play enormous arpeggios and colours on the piano, both classically and as improvisation. Our music was just a natural expression, coming from our souls, our hearts and our minds. A channel from above... But it was not pre-designed in any way.
‘Idrissa’s Dream’ is fully remastered from the original tapes by The Carvery and the package features an interview with Idris Ackamoor alongside previously unseen photos.
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The Shepherd's Tune
The Collective and Idris Ackamoor
12:55
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Idrissa's Dream Part 1
The Collective and Idris Ackamoor
13:04
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Idrissa's Dream Part 2
The Collective and Idris Ackamoor
15:06
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Black Queen
The Collective and Idris Ackamoor
10:40
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Beginning Roots Part 1
The Collective and Idris Ackamoor
19:33
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Beginning Roots Part 2
The Collective and Idris Ackamoor
10:52
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Veil of Solitude
The Collective and Idris Ackamoor
7:47
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Mad and Black
The Collective
6:38
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Track List: 2LP
A1 THE SHEPHERD’S TUNE
A2 IDRISSA’S DREAM Part 1
B1 IDRISSA’S DREAM Part II
B2 BLACK QUEEN
C1 BEGINNING ROOTS Part I
D1 BEGINNING ROOTS Part II
D2 VEIL OF SOLITUDE
Track List: CD
1 THE SHEPHERD’S TUNE
2 IDRISSA’S DREAM Part 1
3 IDRISSA’S DREAM Part II
4 BLACK QUEEN
5 BEGINNING ROOTS Part I
6 BEGINNING ROOTS Part II
7 VEIL OF SOLITUDE
8 MAD AND BLACK
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- 18 November 2022
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