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the pyramids - lalibela - ikef records - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: Jazz - Spiritual / Cosmic & Soul Jazz

"We were playing music to burst out of our bodies. Extremely free! Extremely intense!" Idris Ackamoor

The Pyramids came together in the feverish expat climate of Paris & Amsterdam in 1971 where the three Antioch classmates- Idris Ackamoor,Margot Ackamoor and Kimathi Asante- hooked up with drummer Donald Robinson and began to flesh out their own brand of musical freedom but it was the subsequent pilgrimage back to Africa that proved to be the young musicians' creative awakening & truly set their brand of spiritual jazz apart from pack.

Cut just months after their return to Yellow Springs, Ohio in 1973 with kindred players jumping in on the session , Lalibela is an urgent,beautiful & massive two track suite of propulsive afrodelic cosmic earth groove . Exact repro of the ultra-rare private issue lp on the band's Pyramid Records label. Remastered from the original source tapes. 180 gram virgin vinyl pressing.