スタンリー・カウエルがStrata-Eastに初めて録音した最高傑作にしてソロ・ピアノ名盤中の名盤!!高音質重量盤アナログで復刻。
タイトルはスタンリー・カウエルのアフリカン・ネーム、ムサ・カラムラからとられたもの。エレ・ピやアフリカンピアノを使ってオーヴァーダビングされた「Travelin' Man」や「Equipoise」は、PHARCYDEの「ON THE DL」ネタ。

発売・販売元 提供資料 （2023/02/07）

Musa Ancestral Streams remains a relative oddity in the pantheon of jazz's black consciousness movement -- a solo piano set of stunning reach and scope, its adherence to intimacy contrasts sharply with the bold, multi-dimensional sensibilities that signify the vast majority of post-Coltrane excursions into spiritual expression, yet the sheer soulfulness and abandon of Stanley Cowell's performance nevertheless vaults the record into the same physical and metaphysical planes. Cowell's energy and touch are remarkable, as if guided by divine power, and for all the music's structural spaciousness and rhythmic freedom, not a note feels out of place, let alone excessive. Most intriguing is "Travelin' Man," an overdubbed "duet" featuring Cowell on both acoustic and electric piano that underscores his uncommon affinity for space and presence. ~ Jason Ankeny

Rovi