blastitude review (fwd)
Alan Sondheim
sondheim at panix.com
Tue Mar 14 06:31:35 CET 2006
(my new attitude since my work doesn't garner comments any more on the lists,
so well as might advertise with jetlag)
http://www.blastitude.com/19/RECORDS.htm
RITUAL ALL 770: The Songs CD (FIRE MUSEUM)
This just in: a label from San Francisco called Fire Museum Records has put out
a CD reissue of the debut album by Alan Sondheim's classic Providence-based
Ritual All 770 band. (Man, this is the fourth Providence-related review in a
row, and I'm strictly using alphabetical order here. That town must really be
"The New Seattle.") The album is called The Songs, was recorded in March 1967,
was self-released in enough of an edition for the name "All 770" to end up on
the NWW list, and is a must-hear for fans of the group's two subsequent albums
on ESP-Disk (Ritual All 770, also from 1967, and T'Other Little Tune, from
1968). In fact, it's my favorite of the three. Gorgeous but constantly
challenging improv mystery-movement with femme-chorale vocals. Sondheim is
credited with a super-whopping 19 different instruments (including his slippery
weird electric blues guitar leads that you will remember from the ESP
releases), and is joined by others on a basic core lineup of bass, trump
et, cornet, "jazz drums," and tabla (with many other instruments filling out
the ensemble). Again, the two women on vocals are awesome (Ruth Ann Hutchinson
and June Fellows). Also check this wild interview with Mr. Sondheim, and
there's always the strange and deep asondheim.org.
out now! ritual all 770/
alan sondheim- the songs fm-04
fire museum records
p.o. box 591754
san francisco, ca. 94159 u.s.a.
http://www.museumfire.com
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