Natural Black Inventions: Root Strata
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| Released | 1971 | |||
| Recorded | January 26 & February 4, 1971 | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Label | Atlantic | |||
| Rahsaan Roland Kirk chronology | ||||
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Natural Black Inventions: Root Strata is an album by jazz multi-instrumentalist Rahsaan Roland Kirk featuring performances by Kirk with accompaniment by drummer Maurice McKinley and percussionist Joseph "Habao" Texidor, and with Sonelius Smith on piano on three tracks.[2]
Releases and reception[edit]
The album was originally released by Atlantic Records.[2] It was first released on CD in 1998, by 32 Records.[3] The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow states: "The performances are episodic and colorful with plenty of humor and adventurous moments, worthy of repeated listenings and amazement".[1] The JazzTimes wrote that Kirk "forces the listener to hear his multi-horn free associations and his serpentine asides not as charming, off-center diversions, but as pointedly structuralist works".[4]
Track listing[edit]
- All compositions by Rahsaan Roland Kirk except as indicated.
- "Something for Trane That Trane Could Have Said" - 3:08
- "Island Cry" - 3:54
- "Runnin' from the Trash" - 2:16
- "Day Dream" (Duke Ellington, John Latouche, Billy Strayhorn) - 3:42
- "The Ragman and the Junkman Ran from the Businessman They Laughed and He Cried" - 3:04
- "Breath-A-Thon" - 1:55
- "Rahsaanica" - 3:43
- "Raped Voices" - 1:47
- "Haunted Feelings" - 2:27
- "Prelude Back Home" - 3:45
- "Dance of the Lobes" - 2:06
- "Harder and Harder Spiritual" - 2:35
- "Black Root (Back to the Root)" - 3:17
Source:[1]
- Recorded at Regent Sound Studios, NYC, January 26 (tracks 1-3, 5, & 7-12) and February 4 (tracks 4, 6 & 13), 1971[2]
Personnel[edit]
- Roland Kirk: tenor saxophone, manzello, stritch, clarinet, flute, black mystery pipes, harmonium, piccolo, bass drum, thundersheet, cymbals, bells, music box, palms, timpani, gong, bird sounds
- Maurice McKinley; drums
- Joe Habad Texidor: tambourine, triangle, washboard, thundersheet
- Sonelius Smith: piano (tracks 4, 6, 13)
Source:[2]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c Yanow, Scott. "Rahsaan Roland Kirk / Roland Kirk: Natural Black Inventions: Root Strata". AllMusic. Retrieved October 18, 2020.
- ^ a b c d Rahsaan Roland Kirk discography accessed 17 August 2009.
- ^ AAJ Staff (February 1, 1998). "Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Dog Years In The Fourth Ring". All About Jazz. Retrieved October 18, 2020.
- ^ Shoemaker, Bill (April 1, 1998). "Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Dog Years in the Fourth Ring". JazzTimes. Retrieved October 18, 2020.
