Organic Music Society

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Organic Music Society was recorded in 1972 for the Swedish label Caprice. The trumpeter Don Cherry works here with a large company: flautists, a sarangi player, percussionists such as Naná Vasconcelos and Okay Temiz, and female singers including his wife Moki Cherry. Besides original pieces, there are compositions by Terry Riley, Pharoah Sanders and Leon Thomas, Dollar Brand and Vasconcelos.

The music mixes avant-garde jazz with influences from the East and from Brazil, in melodic song forms. A reviewer described the Organic Music Society period as the beating heart of Cherry's work, because the music came about collectively. In his view this was the record on which Cherry made himself most fully heard as bandleader and spiritual seeker. Others found the record rather vague and mainly one for fans.

Listening

Track list

1. 1North Brazilian Ceremonial Hymn12:25Apple Music ↗
2. 2Elixir6:09Apple Music ↗
3. 3Manusha Raga Kamboji2:19Apple Music ↗
4. 4Relativity Suite: Part I6:52Apple Music ↗
5. 5Relativity Suite: Part II11:59Apple Music ↗
6. 6Terry's Tune -1:56Apple Music ↗
7. 7Hope -10:08Apple Music ↗
8. 8The Creator Has a Master Plan -6:28Apple Music ↗
9. 9Sidhartha1:59Apple Music ↗
10. 10Utopia and Visions6:33Apple Music ↗
11. 11Bra Joe from Kilimanjaro -2:33Apple Music ↗
12. 12Terry's Tune5:10Apple Music ↗
13. 13Resa5:41Apple Music ↗

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