Live on WUOM 1979
Two Rooms Records releases its tenth and most significant release to date: Live on WUOM 1979 by Griot Galaxy. Nearly lost to history, this double-length album documents an extended radio performance by the seminal Afro-futurist jazz ensembleāalso known as āThe Sci-Fi Band.ā The recording presents powerful, previously unheard versions of their classic 1979 repertoire, performed in a tight, electrifying quartet format.
Known for mixing complex polyrhythms, polytonality and non-western scales with grooves and minimalist elements from popular music, Griot Galaxy was founded in Detroit by saxophonist Faruq Z. Bey in 1972. The best known iteration coalesced in the late ā70s as a quintet with bassist Jaribu Shahid and percussionist Tani Tabbal ā both veterans of The Sun Ra Arkestra ā and wind players Anthony Holland and David McMurray. All the members collaborated with their contemporaries in creative black music, including Roscoe Mitchell, Anthony Braxton, Leroy Jenkins, Muhal Richard Abrams, Oliver Lake, Andrew Cyrille and many others. McMurray, absent on this recording, also stayed busy playing behind The Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan.
Wildly popular in Detroit and amongst their peers, Griot Galaxy only released two full-length records during the bandās lifetime. Their activity effectively ended in 1986 when Bey was seriously injured in a motorcycle accident that required nearly a decade of recovery, making this release an important expansion of the Griot Galaxy universe.
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$9.20Live on WUOM 1979
Two Rooms Records releases its tenth and most significant release to date: Live on WUOM 1979 by Griot Galaxy. Nearly lost to history, this double-length album documents an extended radio performance by the seminal Afro-futurist jazz ensembleāalso known as āThe Sci-Fi Band.ā The recording presents powerful, previously unheard versions of their classic 1979 repertoire, performed in a tight, electrifying quartet format.
Known for mixing complex polyrhythms, polytonality and non-western scales with grooves and minimalist elements from popular music, Griot Galaxy was founded in Detroit by saxophonist Faruq Z. Bey in 1972. The best known iteration coalesced in the late ā70s as a quintet with bassist Jaribu Shahid and percussionist Tani Tabbal ā both veterans of The Sun Ra Arkestra ā and wind players Anthony Holland and David McMurray. All the members collaborated with their contemporaries in creative black music, including Roscoe Mitchell, Anthony Braxton, Leroy Jenkins, Muhal Richard Abrams, Oliver Lake, Andrew Cyrille and many others. McMurray, absent on this recording, also stayed busy playing behind The Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan.
Wildly popular in Detroit and amongst their peers, Griot Galaxy only released two full-length records during the bandās lifetime. Their activity effectively ended in 1986 when Bey was seriously injured in a motorcycle accident that required nearly a decade of recovery, making this release an important expansion of the Griot Galaxy universe.
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Two Rooms Records releases its tenth and most significant release to date: Live on WUOM 1979 by Griot Galaxy. Nearly lost to history, this double-length album documents an extended radio performance by the seminal Afro-futurist jazz ensembleāalso known as āThe Sci-Fi Band.ā The recording presents powerful, previously unheard versions of their classic 1979 repertoire, performed in a tight, electrifying quartet format.
Known for mixing complex polyrhythms, polytonality and non-western scales with grooves and minimalist elements from popular music, Griot Galaxy was founded in Detroit by saxophonist Faruq Z. Bey in 1972. The best known iteration coalesced in the late ā70s as a quintet with bassist Jaribu Shahid and percussionist Tani Tabbal ā both veterans of The Sun Ra Arkestra ā and wind players Anthony Holland and David McMurray. All the members collaborated with their contemporaries in creative black music, including Roscoe Mitchell, Anthony Braxton, Leroy Jenkins, Muhal Richard Abrams, Oliver Lake, Andrew Cyrille and many others. McMurray, absent on this recording, also stayed busy playing behind The Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan.
Wildly popular in Detroit and amongst their peers, Griot Galaxy only released two full-length records during the bandās lifetime. Their activity effectively ended in 1986 when Bey was seriously injured in a motorcycle accident that required nearly a decade of recovery, making this release an important expansion of the Griot Galaxy universe.
