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Navigating while reading "New Thing" blog I came across the raised seal "Safari", the protagonists of African jazz punk sixties. The information is as follows. Http://www.safarirecords.wordpress.com/ can visit where you will find this and more, as the interesting audioreportaje (dubbed) "Esoteric deep jazz", with testimony from Franklin Plotinus, Ekundayo and Kwesi Gant.
Safari Records: 1966-1970
Safari Records opened for business in the city of New York, in 1966, number 12 on the floor of the building located at 156 Fifth Avenue. During its first 18 months, recorded and released 45 albums, featuring free improvisers, artists previously unknown. The only exceptions were Ekundayo Orchestra and the Afro-Blue 8 and pianist Franklin Plotinus, who had succeeded recognition throughout the world during the decade of 50. Some of the artists who recorded his debut as a leader in Safari Records include Green Man, Rowdy-Dow, Blood Will Tell, Thumbtack, Heavy Legs, David "Kwesi" Gant and including the saxophonist, now considered one of the pillars of music African-American Tyrone "Ekundayo" Jackson. Many of these artists were sought after by major labels as Impulse! And Columbia. Safari Records anticipating that this could happen, he decided not to sign any agreement with the artists, considering that these could benefit from the support of larger companies.
was the first home of great musicians, as smaller publishers tend to be those that, in the margins of the culture industry, establish a special bond with their authors. A bond cemented in admiration and respect of works that claim certain material conditions for better performance. Prerequisites materials? Yes, but not necessarily cheap. "The secret of SR-recently recalled bassist Marcus Codreanu, was that you had three days of rehearsal before recording. Three days to arrange the notes, deciding who was the first single, how long would each chorus, how many choruses and melody would, if they were to dominate the black or the eighth ... It was so much work pre-recording, which one came to the studio as if he had been playing several nights in the same jazz club. "
SR stylistic inflections recorded operated in jazz from free jazz, funk and then called soul-jazz. The music changed, but the mechanics of recording remained intact. It was a unique balance between the spontaneity of free music, uncompromising and obsessive attention recorder had its own aesthetic.
In the overnight, the recording industry began to copy the LP and no order came to the label. In 1970, less than four years after its release, Safari Records was put out of business. The new music was the focus of label was ignored in the United States. Meanwhile, in Europe and Japan was held, and signed licensing agreements. W. Ward Wilson, founder of SR, continued producing records, but their dealers bought copies of these, and its market had disappeared. SR had to end its production in 1974, for lack of funds. A few months after the seal doors closed, the federal anti-piracy laws were approved. The master tapes were kept in safe deposit boxes, where they remained for 17 years. Wilson, an attorney, eventually got a job as assistant State Attorney General New York, and retired in 1991.
But the revival of the seal may have to crawl on the other side. A somewhat unusual side. "One night in 1990, in a disco in London, discovered a group of young people dancing to the music of Lindani McWhorter, recorded music for over 20 years in a dark experimental origin mark, Safari Records," recalled the writer and theoretical Pomass Kodwo, in his 1991 book, Black American Culture and the African Diaspora, Book 6: Free Jazz, science fiction, Afro-futurist and Safari Records (1966-1974). This rediscovery meant the return of jazz elegy W. Ward Wilson, leading to the course of black music. In the shadows fragmented clubs where jazz is little more than an archaeological data, the formidable shock of McWhorter or the subtleties of Davies seem to try other destinations.
We can proudly say that we got the license through an Italian company, ZYX, to begin reissuing the 115 titles from the label. The observance of the original cover art, which were restored and used the classic logo heliocentric spiral. The tapes are in the process of remastering.
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