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LIFE 015LP
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RELEASE DATE: 6/17/2022
Life Goes On Records present a reissue of The Growing Concern's self-titled album, the sole album by US psychedelic folk rock unit. Originally released in 1968 on Mainstream, the label ran by famous jazz producer Bob Shad. After launching a young Janis Joplin with the Big Brother And The Holding Company, he tried to repeat his commercial triumph with The Growing Concern. However, the band was a different proposition altogether with its emphasis on beautiful vocal harmonies and fantastic guitar and organ work. Consequently, Shad only allowed the group into the studio on a single occasion, dropping them from the label after their eponymous debut. The support of vocalists Bonnie MacDonald and Mary Garstki are an intrinsic part of the band's distinctive sound, and the songs contributed by organist Dan Passaglia, bassist John Pedley, and guitarist Ralph Toms are more than equal to the offerings from more illustrious contemporaries such as Mike Hugg ("Mister You're A Better Man Than I") or Stephen Stills ("Sit Down I Think I Love You"). A true acid folk gem with distinctive progressive blues hooks that needs to be urgently rediscovered.
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LIFE 013LP
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Life Goes On Records present a reissue of The Beat Of The Earth's The Electronic Hole, originally released in 1970. Second album from the cultish experimental jam band formed in 1967 in Orange County, California. Their second effort from 1970 -- The Electronic Hole -- takes a step away from their earlier work, being composed with definite song structures versus the earlier drawn-out freeform jams. Sounding much like a west-coast version of The Velvet Underground & Nico, the album has melodic motifs but is much more primitive and mysterious than its cousin, with loads of fuzz, haunting organ, Phil Pearlman vocals, and even some sitar, acoustic strumming, and ballad-like moments ("Love Will Find A Way, Part I"). The album includes even a wild cover of Frank Zappa's "Trouble Every Day". Had the story ended here it would have been a real tragedy, as Pearlman's finest hour was yet to come. Six years later (with who knows what in between), recording commenced on the majestic Relatively Clean Rivers album with an entirely new band and musical vision.
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LIFE 021LP
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Life Goes On Records present a reissue of Haki R. Madhubuti's Rise Vision Comin, originally released in 1976. A breathtaking self-conscious free-jazz masterwork, Rise Vision Comin summarizes more than 30 years of musical and theoretical/political expression from renowned activist/scholar/free-jazz pioneer Haki R. Standing on the verge of spiritual jazz aesthetic, his music remains timeless and unforgettable after its longstanding creation. The first album by the group NATION Afrikan Liberation Art Ensemble, Rise Vision Comin was released in 1976, and features among others Wallace Roney on trumpet, Clarence Seay on bass, and Agyei Akoto on saxophone who also served as creative director. It features nine tracks with the title track, "Rise, Vision, Comin" a great example of the adhesive comradery between instrumentation and Madhubuti's spoken-word.
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LIFE 019LP
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Life Goes On Records present a reissue of Johnny Rae's Afro-Jazz Septet's Herbie Mann's African Suite, originally released in 1959. Impressive session led jointly by Herbie Mann and John Rae. On side A, the group incessantly shifts from soft vibes-and-flute jazz to percussion-heavy Afro-Cuban rhythms to classic Blue Note hard bop. Side B is the "African Suite", a percussive trip across the Sahara. Personnel: Herbie Mann (flute, bass clarinet); Johnny Rae (vibes); Bob Corwin (piano); Jack Six (bass); Philly Joe Jones (drums); Carlos Patato Valdés, Victor Pantoja (conga); José Mangual (bongo). Recorded in New York City, 1959.
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LIFE 020LP
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Life Goes On Records present a reissue of the Herbie Mann Nonet's Flute, Brass, Vibes & Percussion, originally released in 1961. In 1959, flutist Herbie Mann put together a very interesting band that was in its brief existence (before Mann's interests shifted elsewhere) one of the top in Afro-Cuban jazz. Utilizing four trumpets (including Doc Cheatham), up to three percussionists and a flute-vibes-bass-drums quartet, Mann performs four standards (including "Dearly Beloved", "I'll Remember April", and "Autumn Leaves") and two originals in a style that was beyond bop and much more African- and Cuban-oriented. Personnel: Herbie Mann (flute, bass clarinet); Johnny Rae (vibes); Nabil Knobby Totah (bass); Rudy Collins (drums); Ray Mantilla (conga drums); Ray Barretto (bongos); Plus, trumpet section: Doc Cheatham, Siggy Schatz, Jerome Kail, and Leo Ball. Recorded in New York City, 1959.
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LIFE 017LP
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Life Goes On Records present a reissue of Barbara & Ernie's Prelude To..., originally released in 1971. Barbara & Ernie's only release is a complex combination of soul, folk rock, and late '60s psychedelia. The constant use of electric sitars, funk leaning bass e multi-layered vocals offers a different take on contemporary pop music, approaching several jazz and world influence. Soul singer Barbara Massey and jazz guitarist Ernie Calabria paired up for this rare 1971 album. With Calabria having worked with Nina Simone and Harry Belafonte, among others, and Massey having sung backup for artists including Jimi Hendrix, Cat Stevens, and Herbie Hancock, the pairing was an inspired one and resulted in this superb soul-jazz outing. Massey has a dry yet passionate and evocative vocal quality that often brings to mind Grace Slick. Fittingly, the duo takes on Jefferson Airplane's "Somebody to Love", turning the "Summer of Love" anthem into a steamy and hypnotic soul-funk jam. Elsewhere, the duo touches upon such varying styles as folk, Latin, and psychedelic rock with cuts like "For You" and "Do You Know", bringing to mind such similarly inclined acts as the Free Design and Bill Withers.
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LIFE 006LP
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Tin Pan Alley is the name given to a collection of New York City music publishers and songwriters who dominated the popular music of the United States in the late 19th century and early 20th century. It originally referred to a specific place: West 28th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues in the Flower District of Manhattan. Haruomi Hosono (Apryl Fool, Happy End, Yellow Magic Orchestra), Masataka Matsutoya (music producer, arranger, keyboard player and composer married to popstar Yumi Arai), Shigeru Suzuki (also guitarist in Happy End) and drummer Tatsuo Hayashi (later on in fusion prog-bands such as Aragon and Parachute) took the name for granted. Their 1975 self-titled debut is still one of the most sophisticated venture in the so-called city pop scene.
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LIFE 018LP
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Life Goes On Records present a reissue of Fred Katz's Folk Songs For Far Out, originally released in 1959. "Folk cellist Fred Katz is best remembered as a sideman with the Chico Hamilton Quintet, Paul Horn, and Pete Rugolo, though on this famous, long unavailable record of his own, he serves as conductor and arranger rather than player. Folk Songs For Far Out Folk consists of his tantalizing, imaginative adaptations of African, Hebrew, and American folk tunes. The musical cast varies with each group of selections. The three African songs, highlighted by the explosive 'Mate'ka', include trumpeters Pete Candoli, Don Fagerquist, and Irving Goodman, with a six-man percussion section that features Larry Bunker and Nat King Cole sideman Jack Costanzo. Four American songs include treatment of 'Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child' that alternates between brooding and upbeat cool, with vibraphonist Gene Estes, pianist Johnny Williams, and guitarist Billy Bean lending a hand. The two Hebrew songs focus on reeds exclusively (excepting Mel Pollen's bass). The playful setting of 'Ray's Nigun' showcases Justin Gordon on bass clarinet with Paul Horn and Buddy Collette providing whimsical accompaniment on flutes." --AllMusic.
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LIFE 009LP
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Jazz Sahara is the debut album by double bassist and oud player Ahmed Abdul-Malik featuring performances recorded in late 1958 and originally released on the Riverside label.
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Life Goes On Records presents a reissue of Eden Ahbez's Eden's Island, originally released in 1960. It is 1960, rock n' roll has just lost a couple of its protagonists during this and the previous year, the time of the great balladeers has just begun but soon will run out due to the new and exciting beat invasion. In US mainstream the tiki culture has reached a certain peak and is about to collapse but still goes strong and with it comes the so called "exotica" music, a crossover between smooth jazz and swing, Latin grooves, haunting melodies that are rooted in the folkloristic sounds from different parts of this world plus weird sound effects that often create a spooky jungle or dreamy island beach atmosphere. It can even bend your mind that far you would see palm trees growing out of your speakers and witness monkeys and parrots having fun in your room. Eden Ahbez, born in 1908, passed in 1995, a man living an even more consistent dropout and hippie lifestyle way before the movement was born in the mid-60s, a beat poet and composer who wrote the hit tune "Nature Boy" that gave Nat King Cole his first big success in 1947, approaches the field of exotica music from a different point of view creating an epic concept album about a utopian society living in peace and harmony on an island far away from the modern western world. And indeed, you find many trademarks of the prototypical exotica music beginning with this relaxed groove combining easy listening swing and Latin patterns, peaceful, dreamy and even transcendental vocal melodies or tinges of folk music from around the world including powerful dances and a whole color palette of mind-expanding sounds giving the whole music an even greater depth and width.
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Life Goes On Records present a reissue of a super-rare deep spiritual jazz from 1977, Haki R. Madhubuti's Medasi. A little-known, sought-after obscurity of indie label Afro-centric deep jazz recorded in 1976-7. Recorded with Nation: Afrikan Liberation Arts Ensemble.
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LIFE 003LP
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Reissue, originally released in 1996. Tony Scott (born Anthony Joseph Sciacca June 17, 1921 - March 28, 2007) was an American jazz clarinetist and arranger with an interest in folk music around the world. For most of his career he was held in high esteem in new-age music circles because of his involvement in music linked to Asian cultures and to meditation. Tony performed with many stars as Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan and Harry Belafonte and before moving to Italy in the early '70s he just cut two sought after masterpiece moving forward from his early idea of bop and cool jazz. In particular Djanger Bali (Saba, 1967) -- recorded with The Indonesian All Stars -- and the self-titled Tony Scott (Verve, 1968) -- featuring Richard Davis on bass, John Berberian on oud and Attila Zoller on guitar -- set the pace for a revolution in terms. This set recorded in Africa around the mid-90s is a pure rhythm festival pushing the boundaries of his Afro fusion agenda.
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