PYGMY UNIT Signals From Earth LP/1974 San Francisco/Rare Avant-garde Free Jazz!

Description: PYGMY UNIT 'Signals From Earth' LP (Italy, Holidays Records, Catalogue #HOL 133) Brand new/unplayed copy of limited year 2024 Holidays Records label LP edition of rare 1974 Free Jazz monster album entitled Signals From Earth by San Francisco group Pygmy Unit (originally self-released by the band in 1974 in San Francisco.) (NOTE: ALL RECORDS ARE PACKED AND SHIPPED IN PROFESSIONAL, SUPERIOR QUALITY RECTANGULAR SHAPED, CORNER PROTECTING CORRUGATED CARDBOARD RECORD MAILERS WITH FILLER PADS. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED!) (NOTE: BRAND NEW/FACTORY SEALED ITEM!) (NOTE: LIMITED VINYL EDITION!) Reissue, originally released in 1974. Blending Native American references into a body of sonority that draws on free improvisation, experimental electronic music, and spiritual jazz, Pygmy Unit's Signals From Earth -- originally self-released by the band in 1974 -- forges a singular and almost entirely unknown path, and stands almost entirely on its own in the history of west coast American jazz. First appearing on the San Francisco scene sometime during the early 1970s, almost nothing is known about the Pygmy Unit, a seven-piece band steered by Darrel De Vore, who contributed flute, bass, percussion, piano, and vocals to the band's lone LP, first appeared with percussionist Terry Wilson within the psychedelic folk rock band, The Charlatans, who belonged to the legendary Family Dog scene. Jim Pepper, a Native American tenor saxophonist known for being a member of the Mal Waldron Quartet, played with Charlie Haden, Don Cherry, and numerous others, and produced the cult favorite, Pepper's Pow Wow, for Embryo Records in 1971. John Celona, who contributes parts on sax, synthesizer, and percussion, would later go on to be regarded as an electronic composer of some note. Of the remaining members, saxophonist Frank Albright, bassoonist Ron Grunn, and percussionist Marvin Kirkland, very little else is known. It seems this LP is more or less all they recorded. While undeniably jazz -- riding a remarkable line between avant-garde electronic music, spiritual jazz, and free improvisation -- the band was very much a product of the diverse creative ferment that developed in their hometown of San Francisco during the 1960s. Embodying the raw spirit of DIY (many of the instruments used in the recordings were made by DeVore himself, self-described as an "itinerant flute-maker") the ensemble channels references -- via passages of chanting and percussion, as well as conceptual underpinnings -- from Jim Pepper's Native American roots, intuiting them with the soulfulness of spiritual jazz, wild moments of avant-gardism centered around synths and electronic effects, and explosions of wild free improvisation. "Development of new music is a continuous path that grows directionally according to psychoacoustical phenomena available for unification. This record is evidence of that development, containing 12 performance pieces, at 12 separate times in different acoustical spaces with various combinations of musicians and instrumentation. The music is shaped by signals, received and sent by life forms on this planet. It is unwritten, unrehearsed, utilizing new and traditional approaches to energy, motion, and form. Eventually, music develops as a natural extension of the environment in which it exists. It is the aim of the traditions... to signal the universe from the Earth." Includes two booklets/replicas of original DeVore's publications. Tracks on this LP are as follows:PositionTitle/CreditsDurationPrimitiveA1Coke A2Trees A3Little Flute A4Big Flutes A5Pyramid A6Dragonfly Dance A7Might Not Be On TimeTraditional SpaceB1Where The Dreams Are Kept B2Clouds B3I'm Going Down To The River Again B4Or B5Signals From Earth Shipping rates to the following locations at this present time (note: all shipping rates are subject to change.) Shipping in US (including ALASKA & HAWAII), PUERTO RICO (MEDIA MAIL) is $6.98. Shipping to CANADA (AIRMAIL) is $19.98. Shipping to MEXICO (AIRMAIL) is $23.98. Shipping to UK, EUROPE, RUSSIA, ASIA, GREECE, ISRAEL, TURKEY, CHINA, JAPAN, KOREA, AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS, ETC. (AIRMAIL) is $23.98. Shipping to BRAZIL (AIRMAIL) is $23.98. 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Price: 36.98 USD

Location: Manitou Springs, Colorado

End Time: 2024-11-23T02:41:07.000Z

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