2-CD ITM ARCHIVES 920022 ART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO
LIVE IN BERLIN
Re-Release

LESTER BOWIE trumpet, flugelhorn & percussion
ROSCOE MITCHELL flute, clarinet, saxophones & percussion
JOSEPH JARMAN flute, clarinet, oboe, saxophones & percussion
MALACHI FAVORS bass & percussion
FAMOUDOU DON MOYE drums & percussion
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In the bright round on the stage: Gesture and Sound, the magic of recollection, long forgotten time, which passes and begins, on the highways (Ancient To The Future), through the wilderness of wasted moments to now & here & not yet.
From afar: rattling & ringing, deep voices in the nocturnal forest. Just beyond the curtain the Savannah begins: Community of human & animal & plant.
Recalls this, too: Pictures from America (with slightly shake hands): Plantation & pints, peanuts and pin ups, tent-shows, riots and church masses, winter in the windy city (Sweet Home Chicago/Chicago Breakdown), Dance around burning cadillacs, message to friend and neighbors.
Drifted away from the american way (whatever that may be), between corrugated iron and cardboard, dignity rediscovered: Great Black Music.
Triumph, legacy & resolution, played on the South Side, at the Seine, elsewhere. (And once, too, in the house of the Deutsches Theater.) & after every spectacle the magic dissolves, the music hangs in the air, the doors stay open: Long since current again: The myths, the time, close enough to grasp. & even in the next mirror we may glimpse it:A shaman with sad eyes, balancing happily on the dancing asphalt. Bert Noglik (march 1979)