Don Cherry

• NEVER BEFORE RELEASE

• MASTERED FROM THE ORIGINAL TAPES

This super quality audio, recorded by RAI (the italian public broadcasting company) in 1976 for television, documents a quartet concert focused on vocals compositions and improvisations. Here, Don Cherry and his family-community’s musical belief emerges in its simplicity, with the desire to merge the knowledge and stimuli gained during numerous travels across the World in a single sound experience. Don's pocket-trumpet is melted with the beats of the great Brazilian percussionist Nana Vasconcelos, the Italian guitar of Gian Piero Pramaggiore, and the tanpura drone of Moki. A pure hippie aesthetic, like in an intimate ceremony, filters a magical encounter between Eastern and Western civiliziations, offering different suggestions of sound mysticism: natural acoustics in which individual instruments and voices are part of a wider pan-tribal consciousness.

PERSONNEL:

• Don Cherry - pocket trumpet, flute
• Nana Vasconcelos - percussion, berimbau
• Gian Piero Pramaggiore - guitar. flute
• Moki Cherry - tanpura

Recorded in Rome, Italy, 1976.

TRACKS:

• SIDE A
• 01. Luna Turca
• 02. Om Shanti Om
• 03. Chenrezig
• 04. Nana's Solo

• SIDE B
• 01. A Chi Chi Ou
• 02. Koye
• 03. Flute Song
• 04. Dissolution