David Lee Jr - EvolutionDrummer and Composer David Lee Jr.s stunning and rare album Evolution (1974) blends the deep experimentalism of John Coltrane and Sun Ra with the pulsating second line and parade rhythms of New Orleans to create a stunning sonic and rhythmical tour de force. In a lineage of incredible New Orleans drummers that includes James Black, Idris Muhammed, Zigaboo Modeliste of The Meters, and stretching back to Earl Palmer and Baby Dodds David Lee Jr. stands

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it can be yours should you so choose

performed and produced by Cosey Fanni Tutti in Twickenham Studio 3

The album was a critical success with Rolling Stone listing it as one of the best hip hop albums of all time

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I'm almost LOOKING FORWARD to dying and going to Hell so that I can welcome them with a big molten sign in flames 50 feet high

After the smoke of “Last Broadcast” has cleared

‘The Future’ and ‘Silent Song’ – are philosophical and questing

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there is a shared sonic energy coursing through American Rituals which speaks to an absorption of place

The bubble economy of 1980s Japan also had a hand in the advancement of kankyō ongaku

spent his life honing his musical craft