Marva Broome (Art Ensemble of Chicago) - Mystifying Mama

Marva Broome/Art Ensemble of Chicago - Mystifying Mama (1972)

7 inch release - it currently sells for a ridiculous amount of money.

The Discotheque pt. 2

Alex - Flying High (1977)

Alex is the name of Norwegian disco princess, Alexandra Sandoy. I came across her music upon noticing that jazz drummer, Jon Christensen was listed playing on several tracks off her self-titled album. As an ECM record freak, I was a bit shocked to see Keith Jarrett's drummer boy playing percussion on disco tracks and thought that perhaps it was a different Jon Christensen - it sounds like it could possibly be a common name in Norway, but for that one other person that might care, my own dutiful research confirms that it really is him. I can't say that I ride for most of the album, although you have to commend Norway for trying to make disco heat in the icy tundra, a sly persuasive move to simultaneously get hundreds of toe heads under the disco ball. Glamour!





















The Limit - She's So Divine (1982)

Fortunately, the guitar rift and synth solo heavily outweigh the cliche chorus.




















Karisma - Got You Dancing (Instrumental) 1976

Funky, funky, funky, damn, and Karisma only released one single. If anyone knows more music they released or side projects they had, please inform me! Apparently, it has been released and re-released on several great record labels including SAM and Patrick Adams P&P records throughout the 70s and 80s. I've never heard it in a mix, on a compilation or played live, that is, until I stoarted makin people poarty with it. Fresh.

William Sheller - Introit

Introit (1972)

Apocalyptic opera voices , window shattering strings, Carol Kaye era David Axelrod basslines, twangy sounding Jean Claude Vannier guitars, slow Sahara dessert drum breaks...murderin music.

Dan the Automator ripped this track for "Deltron 3030" peep:

Jan Garberak - Beast of Kommodo & Afric Pepperbird

Beast of Kommodo

Afric Pepperbird

An early release for the Norwegian saxophonist on his home label, the mega-jazz fortress ECM. "Afric Pepperbird" was released in 1971 and at this point in history ECM had not yet slipped into the slick, polished, and atmospheric gloss that tends to be the sound of most of their contemporary releases. Terje Rypdal, who released several Miles fusion influenced records in the early to mid 70s along with Jon Christensen stand as a testament to the period when ECM had the jazz balls to release raw music. The icy Norwegian sound that established Garberak as a saxophone stylist is not present on these early recordings. Instead, Coltrane's influence, which most young saxophonist echo, is greatly heard on both this recording and "Sart," the Quartet's other album released in the same year. The unappreciated bassist Arlid Andersen sounds like a funky tractor or something - meaty, greasy, yet magnificently smooth. He lays down dirty lines that would make even David Sanborn crack his neck and Rza tweek.