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Artist:	HAL RUSSELL'S CHEMICAL FEAST
Title:	Elixir (1979)
Label:	ATAVISTIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	ALP 203CD

"By the time he made his first commercially released LP with the NRG Ensemble in 1981, Hal Russell had already spent the better part of a decade experimenting with different sidemen, formations and instrumentation. Russell started leading bands while in living in Florida at the tail end of the '60s, and on his return to Chicago he set out to form an ideal working unit. Russell toughed out the '70s without making a record, but he didn't refrain from documenting the shifting lineups and evolving musical ideas along the way. In fact, when he died, he left a cache of hundreds of recordings in the care of his right-hand man, saxophonist Mars Williams. These extraordinary tapes provide an incomplete yet fascinating survey of Russell's pre-NRG career (as well as the lesser known NRG years) -- and over time, the Unheard Music Series intends to make the most arresting and significant of these available to the public. We commence the Hal Russell Archive miniseries with this single concert, recorded informally on March 5, 1979, at Elixir Gallery -- a storefront art space on North Clark Street."

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