The Pyramids - Nsorama / From : King of Kings (1974)
IDRIS ACKAMOOR
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The Pyramids - LP : King Of Kings
"There were spirits in that recording studio! I remember a feeling of spiritual strength while we were recording! Images and sounds reverberating off the walls!" - Idris Ackamoor
Though only a year had passed in the time between the fierce abandon of Lalibela and 1974s King of Kings, it signaled a monumental shift for the band. By 1974, the core Pyramids continued their musical odyssey with their Lalibela collaborators- percussionists Hekaptah, Marcel Lytle and saxophonist Masai - while welcoming drummer-in-exile Donald Robinson back to the Pyramids' midwestern American family . Inspired, the group set to shape a set of compositions that most fully realized - in form, feel & reflection - their African passage.
On a Spring day in 1974, the Pyramids went into a remote 16 track studio called Appalachia Sound Recording hours from Antioch in Chillicothe,Ohio - the site of ancient native indian burial mounds - and- with no less intensity than before- cut a warm and infectious spiritual jazz masterpiece- King of Kings- in a day and headed back to Antioch that night. 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.
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