Key To Nowhere

構成数 : 1枚
合計収録時間 : 00:40:34
Full performer name: Brother Ah & The Sounds Of Awareness. Brother Ah & The Sounds Of Awareness: Brother Ah (flute, French horn, harmonica, nayamka, shell horn); Nataska Hasan Yousef (vocals, gong, finger cymbals); Nasar Abadey (berimbau, drums, percussion); Jeffmajors (harp, mbiri); Marvin Tuten (guitar); Mike Bowie (acoustic & electric basses); Barbara Burton-Tuten, Valerie Yarborough (percussion). Recorded at Track Records, Silver Spring, Maryland on July 7, 1983. Robert Northern: Robert Northern; Marvin Tuten (guitar); Jeff Majors (harp); Mike Bowie (acoustic bass); Barbara Burton Tuten. Personnel: Robert Northern (flute, harmonica, French horn); Natasha Hassam Youssef (vocals, finger cymbals, gong); Marvin Tuten (guitar); Nasar Abadey (berimbau, drums, percussion); Jeffmajors (harp, mbira); Michael Bowie (acoustic bass, electric bass); Barbara Burton Tuten, Valerie Yarborough (percussion). Additional personnel: Nataska Hasan (finger cymbals); Valerie Yarborough. Audio Remasterers: Ernst Karel; Ernst Karet. Liner Note Author: Robert Northern. Recording information: Track Records, Silver Spring, MD (07/07/1983). Unknown Contributor Role: Robert Northern. After the IKEF reissues of the first two albums by Brother Ah (aka Robert Northern, ex-Sun Ra French horn player, flutist, music therapist, and educator), the extraordinary Sound Awareness, originally on Strata East and notable for an extended rap from none other than Max Roach, and 1975's Move Ever Onward, comes Key to Nowhere, recorded in 1983. Like Move Ever Onward, this was originally issued on Ah's own Divine Records imprint and features Ah on flute, horn, harmonica, nayamka, and shell horn leading an octet including Jeff Majors on harp and thumb piano and Natasha Hassam Youssef on vocals. Majors' harp work inevitably invokes the spirit of Alice Coltrane and his mbira flourishes on the pentatonic 12/8 jam "Sekou" recall Earth, Wind & Fire's Maurice White, and there's a good splash of Ramsey Lewis' "Wade in the Water" on "Hanifah," but the album wears its heart on its sleeve well and never comes across as maudlin, the odd ham-fisted lyric notwithstanding. ~ Dan Warburton
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