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pharaohs - awakening - luv n haight - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: Funk / Soul

1. Damballa
2. Lbo
3. Tracks Of My Tears
4. Black Enuff
5. Somebody's Been Sleeping
6. Freedom Road
7. Great House

Horn-led, afrocentric, heavy funk from 1971. One of the great albums of all time. Essential!

Ubiquity Records presents a limited repressing of both albums by the legendary Pharaohs. Awakening and In The Basement are highly sought after and have been out of print for several years. Awakening was originally released in 1971 and re-issued by Luv n'Haight in 1996 and quickly became a must-have for collectors of spiritual, deep, Afro-centric Jazz. It's counterpart album, In The Basement culled from unreleased cuts recorded in the studio as well as live recordings was released soon after. "The legend of The Pharaohs starts at Crane Junior College on the West side of Chicago. Under the tutelage of James Mack a student band is formed- The Jazzmen- which in 1962 wins the best band category at Chicago's annual Harvest Moon Festival which translated into the early members finding success at Chess Records as studio musicians. After a while these musicians moved over to the South Side to the fledgling Affro Arts Theater where they joined the Artistic Heritage Ensemble, under the leadership of Phil Cohran and where they eventually merged after Cohran left to teach at Malcolm X Junior College.