ART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO People In Sorrow 1970 JAPAN 1st Press OG w OBI MINT RARE

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ART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO: “People In Sorrow”

LABEL: ODEON Records

Label Number: OP-80032

VERY RARE JAPAN 1ST ORIGINAL PRESSING FROM 1970 COMPLETE WITH 1ST ISSUE OBI!!!!! OBI IS VERY RARE AND RARELY SURFACES. MINT COPY. Impossible to upgrade upon, perfect copy!!!

GRADING:

LP Record Set: Near Mint ~ MINT

Jacket: Near Mint

OBI: MINT

Insert: Mint

Some words on this issue: ART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO: “People In Sorrow” (Odeon – OP-80032)  Unplayed vintage copy, 1st original Japanese pressing with always missing/ never-seen-before psychedelic Odeon Obi!! Original Japanese pressing as released in 1970, one year after the album first saw the light in day in France. “Comprised of just one piece -- split into two long sections as it was on the original LP -- People in Sorrow is a meditation on sound itself. This is the AEC at their most adventurous, yet their most dynamically restrained. There are periods of long silence interrupted sometimes only by a single percussion instrument, bass note, or series of tonal breathing from the horns. The effect is crystalline, sad, beautiful, and haunting. It is heartbreaking in its beauty and poignant in its intent. When tension seems to grow, efforts are made collectively to dispel it in order to stay focused on the thematic elements in the improvisation. When the AEC do engage in sound as a group and the flow becomes more immediate, there are always one or two instrumentalists holding back, anchoring everything in the mystery of sonic inquiry. There is only one section of the piece, about 13 minutes into part two, where edgy dissonance is allowed the space to give utterance, and its more in the form of tonal release than harmonic engagement. Because immediately after, the theme reasserts itself, albeit with Favors playing double time under the long, slow lines by Bowie and Jarman, and then only to underline everything that has taken place previously. The fire then takes hold and the AEC become what most people know them as -- intense free jazzers with a love for smeared textures and tonal white-out. But even here, three minutes before the end of the piece, everything moves back to the seamless and spatial, ushering in the silence that has its own voice as a kind of sixth member. The small, scalar statement made with the horns being breathed through rather than played upon is the heartbreaking exit upon a long, continuous drone upon a sopranino saxophone that takes it out with small notes from a thumb piano that don't so much end as cease to weep.” (Thom Jurek, All Music Guide). Original 1st Japanese pressing with obi just never surfaces and this copy is dead mint.

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Our grading scale: Mint/ Near Mint/ Excellent/ VG++/. We don’t sell anything below VG++. VG++ grade is basically that the record has some scuffs and has wear. Excellent: record has hardly no visible defects and is preserved with care and attention, the condition most collectors take pride in to file away. Near Mint: a dash below mint, just perfect. Mint: like new.

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