Mtume Umoja Ensemble: Alkebulan, DoubleLP, NM
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Description
ARTIST: Mtume Umoja Ensemble
TITLE: Alkebu-Lan: Land of the Blacks
Release Year: 1971
Label: Strata-East (MN 1001)
Vinyl Color: Black
Record Info: UNITED STATES RELEASE
Recording Info: Recorded August 29, 1971, Palace-The East, Brooklyn
Cover/Vinyl: Front: Slightest scuffing and wear to front cover. Upper right corner is worn to expose cardboard. Gatefold is near mint. Slightest wear to black surface of cover, more noticeable wear along edges. Larger/clearer images available on request. / Vinyl is near-mint condition. Shiny, scuff-free.
TRACK LISTING
A: Invocation, Baba Hengates
B: Utamu, Saud
C: Alkebu-Lan, No Words
D: Separate Not Equal, Sifa (The Prayer) (Jihad Prod.) – Imamu Baraka, Swahili – Je Jordan
Personnel: Mtume, conga and tonette horn; Carlos Garnett, tenor and flute; Leroy Jenkins, violin; Ndugu, drums; Gary Bartz, soprano and alto sax; Stanley Cowell, piano; Buster Williams, bass; Andy Bey, vocals; Joe Lee Wilson, vocal; Billy Hart, drums; Eddie Micheaux, vocal; Yusef Iman and Weusi Kuumba, poetry
Notes:A period piece that speaks to our times as well as the time of its creation. The all-star, Afrocentric cast of outcats is led by Mtume, son of jazz legend Jimmy Heath, at the time of the disc a sideman to the electrified Miles Davis; in years to come Mtume would record with numerous other jazz legends and crossover to produce or play with Roberta Flack, Lou Rawls, Roy Ayers and … Madonna. But in the early ‘70s, Strata-East Records, founded by Charles Tolliver and Stanley Cowell, was on the forefront of a kind of mind-expanding, black nationalist liberation music. And this disc was emblematic of what was going down – including a gatefold listing of the “Seven Principals” of “Ngunzo Saba,” widely recognized today as the Seven Principles of Kwanzaa.
From Ian’s Guide to the Ecstatic Spirit in Jazz:
“Recorded August 29, 1971 at The East, New York. According to Jim Flannery of the Kozmigroove Mailing List, it's "Pretty damn wild...AACM goes to Africa... but I guess I'd have to add 'Pharoahs go to Saturn' to get the picture complete. Starts out with a four-minute speech describing the role of 'these jams' in the service of Black Nationalism... and then backs it up. Cover is black with white line-drawing of a sorta Egyptian-meets-subSaharan figure (Pharoanic beard, pyramids for eyes, goat amulet), back side has an eye-in-pyramid drawing with photo of Mtume leaning against it." Having finally heard this record finally, I love it. While it's certainly dated, it's a fascinating glimpse of the marriage of early 1970s Afro-centric music, politics and spirituality, plus it really grooves. To me reminiscent of Bartz' Ntu Group work, it's more energetic and colorful than those records. A treasure: Strata-East was an extraordinary label.”
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