RAY RUSSELL Live I.C.A. Japan 1973 OG 1st Press PROMO White Label Free Jazz RARE

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RAY RUSSELL QUINTET: “June 11, 1971 – Live At The I.C.A.”

Label: RCA Records

Label Number: RCA-6086

Rare JAPANESE press ORIGINAL from 1973. This is rarely seen WHITE label PROMO copy. TOP COPY!!! Comes housed in fragile flip back jacket.

GRADING:

WHITE LABEL PROMO LP Record: Near Mint ~ Mint – just perfect and absolutely flawless!!!

Jacket: Excellent ~ Near Mint

Some words on this issue: RUSSELL, RAY: “Live at I.C.A” (RCA – RCA-6086) (Record: Near Mint/ Flip Back Jacket: Near Mint/ Obi: Near Mint). Original 1973 Japanese pressing on high quality vinyl. White label promotional copy – complete with NEVER SEEN OBI! “Following the release of Rites and Rituals in 1971, Ray Russell's sextet was offered the chance to be recorded live during a concert at the ICA. That show, on June 11, 1971, was issued as an album. As intense as the Dragon Hill and Rites and Rituals LPs are, they do little to prepare the listener for the experience of the intense telepathic communication these musicians were capable of in front of a live audience. The colors are so much deeper, so much brighter, and the spaces so much more open in concert, that it's easy to hear where the sextet preferred to spend its time. Tracks one through four are all at the ICA and contain virtually the same personnel from Rites and Rituals minus Nick Evans. The standout is the four-part blowing session suite "Stained Angel Morning," where Russell reveals how deeply into the free jazz and heavy metal camps he really was. His stabbing, singing notes and psychotic runs up the fretboard have nothing to do with scalular architecture, but rather with viscera and tonal exploration. Harry Beckett and Tony Roberts were both moving away from the traditional scenes they'd grown up in, and further into areas inhabited by the Art Ensemble of Chicago and the Sun Ra Arkestra. They were hearing Lester Bowie, Marshall Allen, Anthony Braxton, and Roscoe Mitchell, and moving into free jazz with open eyes. The awesome tonal and harmonic assaults and transformations that occur among the musicians in "Stained Angel Morning" cannot be overstated. There is music on this suite that had never been made before and hasn't been heard since. The tonal explorations that this sextet undertook were wild, unruly, and literally savage. The musicians' ability to generate harmonics from inside the frame of a given improvisation and manage simultaneous consonance and dissonance was remarkable. And they rocked like champions while doing it. Each track is more outrageous and more profoundly disturbing than what came before. All of the current noise freaks -- Keiji Haino, Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo, Rudolph Grey, Masaki Batoh, Alan Licht, and even Jim O'Rourke -- owe a great debt to Russell and this band; they showed beyond all doubt that a perfect "fusion" of free jazz and hard rock was the most natural thing in the world.” (Thom Jurek, All Music Guide)

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