
Aguirre
Khan Jamal’s Creative Arts Ensemble - Drum Dance To The Motherland
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There’s
not
another
album
on
the
planet
that
sounds
even
remotely
like
vibraphonist
Khan
Jamal’s
eccentric,
one-of-a-kind
masterpiece,
Drum
Dance
To
The
Motherland.
Thirty
years
after
its
release,
the
album’s
tapestry
of
sound,
fearless
abstractions,
relentless
grooves,
cool
swing,
flashes
of
ecstasy,
&
pan
cultural
embrace
remain
powerful
&
beyond
category.
One
of
only
three
albums
released
on
the
Philadelphia-based
Dogtown
label,
it
was
barely
distributed
beyond
the
city’s
limits
when
it
came
out
in
the
early
‘70s.
Finally
available
again,
a
really
stunning
document
of
musical
exploration,
a
classic
session.
In
its
improbable
fusion
of
free
jazz
expressionism,
black
psychedelia,
&
full-on
dub
production
techniques,
Drum
Dance
remains
a
bracingly
powerful
outsider
statement
fifty
years
after
it
was
recorded
live
at
the
Catacombs
Club
in
Philadelphia,
1972.
Comparisons
to
Sun
Ra,
King
Tubby,
Phil
Cohran
&
BYG/Actuel
merely
hint
at
the
cosmic
otherness
conjured
by
The
Khan
Jamal
Creative
Arts
Ensemble
&
by
sound
engineer
Mario
Falana's
real-time
enhancements.
Clearly,
the
members
of
the
Khan
Jamal
Creative
Arts
Ensemble
saw
African
American
music
as
a
continuum
that
stretched
from
the
Motherland
through
the
blues,
R&B,
jazz,
&
free
jazz,
&
they
prided
themselves
on
mastering
the
continuum.
In
the
early
‘70s,
these
were
fairly
new
ideas,
but
they
had
taken
firm
root
in
Philadelphia.
The
search
for
an
African
American
music
that
is
modern
&
culturally
progressive
but
rooted
in
an
African
tradition
is
the
music’s
heart
&
soul.
Its
connection
to
the
specific
African
American
community
in
Philadelphia
is
its
immediate
inspiration.
“My
ancestors
eventually
show
up
in
my
music
every
time
i
play,”
Jamal
says.
“I’ve
always
said
that
my
backyard
is
Africa.”
Originally
issued
by
Jamal
in
1973
in
an
edition
of
three
hundred
copies
on
‘Dogtown’
records,
Drum
Dance
To
The
Motherland
was
effectively
a
myth
until
eremite’s
2005
CD
reissue.
With
the
master
tapes
long
vanished,
the
audio
was
transferred
at
Sony
Music's
54th
street
studio
from
a
minty
copy
of
the
original
LP.
Includes
an
insert
with
Ed
Hazell's
detailed
telling
of
Drum
Dance's
incredible
history.
Under
License
From
Eremite
Records.
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