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Idrissa's Dream
Artist
Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids
Label
Strut
Catalogue Number
STRUT286D
Release Date
18 listopada 2022

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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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

Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids

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