Aomawa: The 1970S Recordings

Box set includes all three 1970s albums by The Pyramids + previously unreleased LP Live at KQED, 1975. 12pp 12-sized booklet includes extensive interviews with the three original members of The Pyramids by Francis Gooding alongside unseen photos. Audio fully restored and remastered by The Carvery. The first in a series of Strut reissues from the back catalogue of Idris Ackamoor. Strut present the first box set release to bring together the 1970s recordings of The Pyramids, led by Idris Ackamoor. As students at Antioch College, Ohio, alto saxophonist Idris Ackamoor, flautist Margaux Simmons and bass player Kimathi Asante created three lasting monuments in sound Lalibela, King of Kings, and Birth / Speed / Merging, a trio of albums produced without any label backing or distribution between 1972 and 1976. Their music is unique among the varied canon of avant-garde and experimental music of 1970s America: high intensity African-styled percussion topped with songs, chants, and horns, laced with African instruments and arranged into long, flowing suites that surge and roll.

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Format: Vinyl LP
Artist: The Pyramids
Release Date: 15 July 2022
Genre: Jazz
Label: Strut Records
Distributor: MGM Music