Spiritual Unity

Spiritual Unity

Spiritual Unity, led by Marc Ribot, is a group dedicated to re-creating the collective musical process of Albert Ayler. Although their effort may involve highly skilled performers and produce moments of stunning aesthetic beauty, they believe Ayler's real legacy isn't the creation of aestheticized, gem-like renditions of pre-written concepts, or little parades of the performers' virtuosic abilities.

What Spiritual Unity seeks is a ritual process, through improvisation, of experiencing and presenting the rawest moment of musical creation. To experience this performance is to participate in a ritual; to be caught up in the crowded room of sacrifice, knowing that something immediate and important is happening. What this process leaves behind in recordings aren't primarily aesthetic objects, but archeological traces proof that even in the post-everything world, something is possible.

Spiritual Unity unites the most dynamic young drummer of the Chicago scene (Chad Taylor, Chicago Underground), musicians seasoned in NYC's free-improv, no-wave, post/punk, new music and jazz scenes (guitarist Marc Ribot and trumpeter Roy Campbell Jr.) and the bassist for many of Albert Ayler's seminal recordings of the '60s, the immortal Henry Grimes.

Spiritual Unity unites the energy and influences of all these histories into a search for common language of creation. It unites the ritual power of "rock" and "jazz" through a tradition that has always existed in the margins of both. It unites the voice of the electric guitar with the sax-driven free jazz tradition. It unites people in the memory of a musical past, and the belief in a future. If that's not spiritual unity, what is?

Marc Ribot s recordings for Atlantic with Los Cubanos Postizos sold over 60,000 copies. Albert Ayler s music has been rediscovered recently due to the release of a nine-CD box set on Revenant. First recorded release of Henry Grimes revisiting the music that helped to establish him some three decades ago. Ribot has recently recorded and toured with Tom Waits and is well recognized for his work with John Zorn, Elvis Costello, Marianne Faithfull and The Lounge Lizards.
Country USA
Brand PI RECORDINGS
Manufacturer Pi Recordings
Binding Audio CD
ItemPartNumber 1
ReleaseDate 2005-05-03
UnitCount 1
UPCs 808713001525
EANs 0808713001525

Country	USA
Brand	PI RECORDINGS
Manufacturer	Pi Recordings
Binding	Audio CD
ItemPartNumber	1
ReleaseDate	2005-05-03
UnitCount	1
UPCs	808713001525
EANs	0808713001525

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