The Art Ensemble of Chicago – People in Sorrow [USED LP] Ambient / New Age Tom James Scott (Scene VIII)

Tom James Scott (Scene VIII)

Featuring the full versions of these seminal early works (abridged versions of which had previously appeared across two 7" singles on Disques BAM) the recordings presented here are the first fruits of this new alliance and served to lay the bedrock for the future of the Groupe de Recherches Musicales which would later count the likes of Ivo Malec

Joined by chicken scratch guitar and increasingly dominated by the insistent clang of three of Bolon Bata’s members on karqab (a kind of cast-iron castanet)

Superior Viaduct presents the first-time domestic release of Clic

The Art Ensemble of Chicago – People in Sorrow [USED LP] Ambient / New Age Tom James Scott (Scene VIII)sparse, percussive longform improv. full bodied spontaneity with devastating emotional punch, all timer, the art ensemble at their most potent. Nessa Records, 1978