CHARLY / BYG Archives - Guerssen Records https://wpguerssen-test.odoo.rgbconsulting.com/label/charly-byg/ Guerssen Records Thu, 09 Jan 2025 13:15:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 https://wpguerssen-test.odoo.rgbconsulting.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/cropped-isotip-32x32.png CHARLY / BYG Archives - Guerssen Records https://wpguerssen-test.odoo.rgbconsulting.com/label/charly-byg/ 32 32 Blase https://wpguerssen-test.odoo.rgbconsulting.com/product/blase/ Sun, 10 Mar 2024 23:00:00 +0000 https://wpguerssen-test.odoo.rgbconsulting.com/product/blase/ Limited Edition 180g White Vinyl LP!
Newly Remastered for Vinyl from the Original BYG Tapes!
Lacquers Cut by Alchemy Mastering at AIR Studios!
The heat of the blues and the fire of the avant-garde blend superbly on this landmark recording.
Original 1969 BYG album, facsimile edition. Newly remastered for vinyl from original BYG tapes. Lacquers cut by Alchemy Mastering at AIR Studios. Insert with exclusive liner notes by author, journalist and BYG authority Kevin Le Gendre.
Florida-born saxophonist, composer, poet, actor and playwright Archie Shepp was one of the most articulate exponents of politicized black culture in the late '60s, a time of enormous upheaval and radical thought. Relocating to Paris he made a number of highly influential albums, such as Blasé, that broached the essential themes of freedom and racial equality, and tapped into the bedrock of African-American music. Gospel and blues were a major part of the work, which also had a strong avant-garde sensibility. The band featured stellar vocalist Jeanne Lee and members of Art Ensemble Of Chicago. These trailblazing artists who combined jazz, poetry and radical politics made a definitive musical statement.

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Newly Remastered for Vinyl from the Original BYG Tapes!
Lacquers Cut by Alchemy Mastering at AIR Studios!
The heat of the blues and the fire of the avant-garde blend superbly on this landmark recording.
Original 1969 BYG album, facsimile edition. Newly remastered for vinyl from original BYG tapes. Lacquers cut by Alchemy Mastering at AIR Studios. Insert with exclusive liner notes by author, journalist and BYG authority Kevin Le Gendre.
Florida-born saxophonist, composer, poet, actor and playwright Archie Shepp was one of the most articulate exponents of politicized black culture in the late ’60s, a time of enormous upheaval and radical thought. Relocating to Paris he made a number of highly influential albums, such as Blasé, that broached the essential themes of freedom and racial equality, and tapped into the bedrock of African-American music. Gospel and blues were a major part of the work, which also had a strong avant-garde sensibility. The band featured stellar vocalist Jeanne Lee and members of Art Ensemble Of Chicago. These trailblazing artists who combined jazz, poetry and radical politics made a definitive musical statement.

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]]> Yasmina, A Black Woman (White) https://wpguerssen-test.odoo.rgbconsulting.com/product/yasmina-a-black-woman-white/ Sun, 10 Mar 2024 23:00:00 +0000 https://wpguerssen-test.odoo.rgbconsulting.com/product/yasmina-a-black-woman-white/ Archie Shepp's 1969 album 'Yasmina, A Black Woman' was one of many jazz classics recorded in Paris by great African-American musicians at the end of the Sixties. The use of African instruments in the side-long free jazz opener 'Yasmina' help transform it into something utterly transcendent that pivots away from Western-centric jazz standards. The fusion of hard bop and avant-garde techniques on both tracks on side two - one of them featuring the legendary saxophonist Sonny Rollins - round out a forward-thinking classic.

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]]> Archie Shepp’s 1969 album ‘Yasmina, A Black Woman’ was one of many jazz classics recorded in Paris by great African-American musicians at the end of the Sixties. The use of African instruments in the side-long free jazz opener ‘Yasmina’ help transform it into something utterly transcendent that pivots away from Western-centric jazz standards. The fusion of hard bop and avant-garde techniques on both tracks on side two – one of them featuring the legendary saxophonist Sonny Rollins – round out a forward-thinking classic.

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