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Label Profile:
ESP Disk
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Sun Ra featuring Pharoah Sanders & Black Harold (ESP Disk)
The mystical knockings on display on compositions herein derives from the folk culture of a South then still resistant to the dominance of machines yet well-acquainted with the awesome power of electric guitar evangelism or to interstellar funk accessed from bouts of star-walking. Features free jazz luminary Pharoah Sanders and Arkestra mainstays as Marshall Allen, Jimmhi Johnson, Ronnie Boykins, and standout flautist Black Harold.
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Recorded at the tail end of ESP-Disk's heyday, yet unquestionably one of the greatest highlights in that storied catalog, bassist Ronnie Boykins' sole album as a leader is a mesmerizing, serpentine collection of compositions that perfectly ride that fine line between the free and the restrained. A veteran of Sun Ra's landmark recordings, Boykins' incredibly interesting compositions are full of slyly playful digressions and loping, near eastern patterns. Recommended!
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Long overdue for remastering and reissue, Erica Pomerance's "You Used to Think" from 1968 epitomizes the creative output of unorthodox, genre splitting music so well documented by ESP-Disk. With guest collaborators like Gail Pollard on flute, guitarists Billy Mitchel and Ron Price, and saxophonist Trevor Koehler, the album harnesses the energy of a performance, definitely reaching for inspiration in avant-garde opera, jazz, and folk.
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Greenwich Village's boho answer to popular family singing sensationsof the '60s and '70s, the Levitts have the same sort of bright, hazy positivity of Free Design or Sound of Feeling, but there's also a raw, post-bop and modal jazz influence that pervades throughout. Guitarist Sean Levitt, who was 13 when they were discovered, would go on to become a highly respected jazz player, and it's pretty cool to hear how focused he was at an early age.
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"College Tour" was the second record Patty Waters recorded for ESP-Disk, and her final album, period, before fading into obscurity. She was one of the first female singers to explore extended vocal technique in a purely experimental setting, before Yoko Ono, Diamanda Galas, Joan LaBarbara, et al. Waters is notably joined on these recordings by such ESP-Disk luminaries as Burton Greene, Dave Burrell, Giuseppi Logan and Ran Blake.
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