Label: Black Sweat Records

イタリア産カルトジャズ物件が復刻!!オリジナルは1976年にローマのクラブが運営したFolkstudioから出版。1970年代のイタリア・ジャズ シーンの最深部にて独創的なアプローチを行った、総勢18人からなる集団Folk Magic Bandの唯一作がコレ。中国、アフリカ、南米等のワールドミュージックから、ドン・チェリー、ファラオ・サンダース、サン・ラのスピリチュアルジャズまでを落とし込んだ怒涛のジャズ・ファンク5テイク。メチャクチャ良いです。







Folk Magic Band represents one of the most interesting and original, yet lesser-known experiences of the italian jazz scene of the 1970s. In the legendary alternative environment of the Folk Studio in Rome, an open 18-members lineup is inspired by the free jazz of its time, a music that encompasses the whole world and its polychromy of sound. The echo seems to resonate the pan-ethnic motifs of Don Cherry and his Organic Music Society, but also the spiritual jazz of Pharoas Sanders and the orchestrations of the Sun Ra Arkestra. The textures chase a chinese melody, ignite with african scents and south american jungles, flow into fusion violin drifts a la Archie Shepp's Attic Blues or Mingus-like orchestral sections. The fascination of this collective affair still strikes for its playful and ironic nature, still impressing for its strength and willingness to open and influence new directions.