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Artist:	MASTER MUSICIANS OF JAJOUKA
Title:	The Music And Ritual Of Jajouka, Morocco
Label:	SOL RE SOL RECORDS
Format:	LP
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	SRS 001LP

Full title: The Primal Energy that is the Music and Ritual of Jajouka, Morocco. "In 1972, Joel Rubiner made his way to Jajouka to do fresh recordings of the group. He knew that there was an audience for the unfiltered sounds of the Master Musicians of Jajouka and spends the summer with a tape machine and the musicians. Jams formed into songs, Rubiner had tapes that music freaks would die for. Hypnotic, pulsing, energetic, and discordant - the Rubiner recordings needed to be released. In 1974, Adelphi Records took a chance on the Master Musicians and released The Primal Energy that is the Music and Ritual of Jajouka, Morocco. When the album was released on CD, it netted the All Music Guide's Best of Genre award. Out of print on vinyl for over twenty years, The Primal Energy... makes a return on Sol Re Sol Records (a spin-off of avant-rock label S.S. Records). Sol Re Sol's repressing of this classic album contains the music of the original (remastered by John Golden), plus the original liner notes by Robert Palmer. The packaging however is something new - housed in a gatefold sleeve, it includes a new cover with little seen Rubiner photographs from the time the album was recorded. The recordings and photographs have been fully licensed. The group's publishing royalties have been paid. No one is getting exploited in order to return this wonderful music to vinyl. Fans of Sublime Frequencies, Mississippi Records, the Nonesuch Explorer series, Ocora Records, and the Ethnic Folkways series will dig this release."

Artist:	SEDITION ENSEMBLE
Title:	Regeneration Report
Label:	SOL RE SOL RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SRS 002CD

"It is the late 1970s and recently politicized filmmaker and musician Ed Montgomery makes his way from San Francisco to New York City. His thought is to find like-minded musicians in order to create a politically-infused, free jazz-inspired performance ensemble. He starts playing in Latin groups and takes part in jam sessions at Bobo Shaw's LaMama space. He finally assembles a group of musicians and starts making some seriously funky and far-out music. Released on Mongomery's Context Music label, Regeneration Report got some notice, but not what it deserved. The music is a tough blend of funk, jazz, no wave, and Latin - very strong stuff that sounds as fresh today as it did in 1981. It was the lyrics that kept the Sedition Ensemble from a larger audience. Revolutionary words with absolutely no compromise, Montgomery and McCauley attack injustice and give an analysis of the world as stark it is true. Their message is sadly still relevant today. The lazyman's description of Sedition Ensemble is this: Take the stripped down funkiness of ESG and combine it with the Last Poets' funk militancy, Fela Kuti's horn section hipped on free jazz from the 70s New York loft scene, then add a bit of Eddie Palmieri 's Harlem River Drive Orchestra. A private pressing when independent labels had weak distribution, Regeneration Report never sold a lot of records. Few copies made it off the East Coast. Nowadays, original copies fetch good money in collectors' circles. We at Sol Re Sol Record are proud to reissue this great LP. The CD comes in a digipak."

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