The Art Ensemble of Chicago – People in Sorrow [USED LP] Ambient / New Age Joined by chicken scratch guitar

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)

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

constantly shifting blur of repeated notes reflected through the shimmering

With loops of dulcet

easy charm

The Art Ensemble of Chicago – People in Sorrow [USED LP] Ambient / New Age Joined by chicken scratch guitarsparse, percussive longform improv. full bodied spontaneity with devastating emotional punch, all timer, the art ensemble at their most potent. Nessa Records, 1978