Letta Mbulu - Mahlalela & Melodi

Mahlalela
Melodi

From her 1970 release, "Letta"
White people, cleanse yourselves in the waters of primordial neck-crackin music

Pharoah Sanders - Pharoah

Harvest Time

Pharoah Sanders 1977 album released on the obscure label, India Navigation is by far his rarest and perhaps most beautiful album. "Harvest Time" fills up the first side of the record and contains some of Sanders most lyrical and forward tenor sax playing. Bathing in the atmosphere of lush chords from Tisziji Munoz's echoing electric guitar, Pharoah arises from the waters and glides on top of Munoz's motifs, caressing the majestic soundspace with lovely interpentrating soliloquies that bounce back and forth with bassist Steve Neil (sounding like Dave Holland) to then travel off into the cosmos to make love with some funky godhead residing inbetween Sirius and Torgious.

Gruppo Di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza - The Feedback & Seguita

The Feedback

Seguita

Gruppo Di Improvvisazione was Ennio Morricone's jazz/avant-garde/classical group throughout the 60s and early 70s. The group's style changed in the early 70s from Stockhausen-esque possessive soundscapes to dry drum breaks with screaching trumpets and guitars. "The feed-back" is considered highly as an Italian avant-garde classic. 'The feedback' showcases Ennio Morricone sounding off a flat trumpet that fits perfectly with the cold and cacophonous intermingling of instruments. "Seguita" is from 'Gli Occhi Freddi Della Paura' (Cold Eyes of Fear) a dramatic action movie Morricone soundtracked in 1971. The song spawns images of tall, dark men in black suits running through damp streets and narrow alleys. I haven't seen the movie so perhaps my mental image isn't too far from Morricone's theatrical intention.

La Kabala - El Cumbanchero & Miami Beach

El Cumbanchero

Miami Beach

La Kabala was a funk group from Peru who performed early Santana-style music, but with more sincerity, swing, and with better keyboards. This record is pretty rare

Jean Cohen-Solal - Concerto Cyliq

Concerto Cyliq

A theme song for alien visitations
Apprehending knife fights in Paris
and secretly yappin diamonds from a rich Parisian

The Bayan Mongol Variety Group - Bayan Mongol

Bayan Mongol

Thanks to Waxidermy for informing the world about this track. It's a Mongolian rock record! When was the last time you thought about Mongolia? Ghengis Khan? Maybe you have an image of Julia Roberts riding horses in the lush countryside, like I do? I dunno. When I played this for a friend he asked, "Mongolia? What? is that a country?" Supposedly this was released in 1981 but recorded sometime in the late 60's, it certainly sounds like it. I'm not sure what the rest of the album sounds like, simply because it's nearly impossible to find and nobody has posted any other tracks from it. Hopefully they will in the future and then I can post them for you. "Mongolian psych-funk" ooooooohhhhhhhhh, get steamy.

San Ul Lim - It was probably late summer

It was probably late summer

S. Korean psychedelic rock that makes dudes drop turds with ease