JOHN TCHICAI AFRODISIACA – JAPAN ORIG MPS LP 1969 – MINT w/ Obi RARE Free Jazz

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JOHN TCHICAI & CADENTIA NOVA DANICA: “Afrodisiaca”

LABEL: MPS Records / Nippon Columbia

Label Number: YS-2404-MP

Bloody rare JAPAN 1st ORIGINAL PRESS ISSUE housed in a HEAVY GATEFOLD JACKEt and complete with FIRST ISSUE OBI & Insert. NEAR MINT & TOP CONDITION!!!!!! Comes pressed on audiophile Japanese virginal vinyl…copies with obi NEVER surface!!!!

GRADING:

LP Record: Excellent ~ Near Mint

Heavy Laminated Gatefold Jacket: Near Mint

Insert: Mint

OBI: MINT

Some words on this issue: TCHICAI, JOHN: “Afrodisiaca” (MPS/ Columbia Records Japan – YS-2404-MP) Original 1st Japanese pressing of this rare free jazz beast, complete with obi. First copy with obi, pressed on high quality vinyl to ever fall into my hands, making it so much rarer than the original French and German issues…of course the sound is also so much better on this one. “Danish-born of Congolese-descent saxophonist John Tchicai's 1969 MPS release Afrodisiaca is a sprawling, multi-disciplinary work that rivals better known works like John Coltrane's Ascension.. No less a personal journey, Afrodisiaca stands, nearly forty years later, as a masterpiece that blends Afro-rhythms and harmonic conceits with improvisation of the freest kind, near-classical microtonalism and innovative sonic experimentation. Its reach as an underground classic is so broad that it's even considered by Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore to be “beautiful, baby, BEAUTIFUL!”…. Tchicai's oblique but beautiful soprano intro to “Fodringsmontage” sets the stage for collective free play that, despite everyone's involvement, is dominated by Doerge and Steinmetz. And, like Ornette Coleman's Free Jazz, its apparent anarchy is belied by the emergence of clearly arranged/cued figures that provide a clear rallying point. The sprawling, 22-minute title track that elevates Afrodisiaca to the position of masterpiece. Based around the scale of the African marimba-like balafon, it opens with two organs briefly playing the entire, dense, 19-note scale, resembling Gyõrgy Ligeti's microtonal intro to “Atmospheres”), before Steinmetz enters with a solo trumpet of painful beauty that gradually expands with both the addition of trumpeter Theo Rahbek echoing him from 30 feet away and the resonant sympathetic strings of the piano as Steinmetz blows into them. But that's only the beginning. The piece moves through a number of movements that include rich, vertical horn harmonies over Musoni's balafon and a propulsive, percussion-driven rhythm; a segment for four flutes that, again, utilizes the sympathetic strings of a piano to create an even lusher soundscape as a backdrop for Tchicai's moaning alto; and a bass solo from Steffen Andersen that, surrounded by horns emulating the wind, leads into a more full-fledged blow-out by all around a pulsating tribal rhythm. It's a sonic and rhythmic tour-de-force that has to be heard to be believed.” (All About Jazz). A drop dead free jazz hard blowing monster. Rarely surfaces these days in such exquisite condition. Seems like it rolled of the presses only yesteryear. This album still rules my waking hours and dreaming days. Totally 100% essential and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise, if they do you know they are full of nonsense.

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Our grading scale: Mint/ Near Mint/ Excellent/ VG++/. We don’t sell anything below VG++. VG++ grade is basically that the record has some scuffs and has wear. Excellent: record has hardly no visible defects and is preserved with care and attention, the condition most collectors take pride in to file away. Near Mint: a dash below mint, just perfect. Mint: like new.

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