Don Cherry's New Researches Featuring Naná Vasconcelos – Organic Music Theatre (Festival De Jazz De Chateauvallon 1972) 2LP
In the late 1960s, the American trumpet player and free jazz pioneer Don Cherry (1936–1995) and the Swedish visual artist and designer Moki Cherry (1943–2009) began a collaboration that imagined an alternative space for creative music, most succinctly expressed in Moki’s aphorism “the stage is home and home is a stage.”
By 1972, they had given name to a concept that united Don’s music, Moki’s art, and their family life in rural Tagårp, Sweden into one holistic entity: Organic Music Theatre. Captured here is the historic first Organic Music Theatre performance from the 1972 Festival de jazz de Chateauvallon in the South of France, mastered from tapes recorded during its original live broadcast for public TV.
A life-affirming, multicultural patchwork of borrowed tunes suffused with the hallowed aura of Don’s extensive global travels, the performance documents the moment he publicly jettisoned his identity as a jazz musician, and represents the start of his communal “mystical” period, later crystallized in recordings such as Organic Music Society, Relativity Suite, Brown Rice, and the soundtrack for Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Holy Mountain.
A1 Intro : Dha Dhin Na, Dha Tin Na
A2 Butterfly Friend
A3 Elixir
A4 Amazwe
A5 Interlude With Puppets
A6 Ganesh
B1 Elixir Reprise / Witchi Tai To
B2 ResaB3Relativity Suite, Part 1
C1 Berimbau Solo
C2 Interlude / North Brazilian Ceremonial Hymn
D1 Elixir Reprise / Ganesh
D2 Ntsikana's Bell / Traditional Melody
Black Form Editions Cat. No. BF 023 2021
Don Cherry's New Researches Featuring Naná Vasconcelos – Organic Music Theatre (Festival De Jazz De Chateauvallon 1972) 2LP
In the late 1960s, the American trumpet player and free jazz pioneer Don Cherry (1936–1995) and the Swedish visual artist and designer Moki Cherry (1943–2009) began a collaboration that imagined an alternative space for creative music, most succinctly expressed in Moki’s aphorism “the stage is home and home is a stage.”
By 1972, they had given name to a concept that united Don’s music, Moki’s art, and their family life in rural Tagårp, Sweden into one holistic entity: Organic Music Theatre. Captured here is the historic first Organic Music Theatre performance from the 1972 Festival de jazz de Chateauvallon in the South of France, mastered from tapes recorded during its original live broadcast for public TV.
A life-affirming, multicultural patchwork of borrowed tunes suffused with the hallowed aura of Don’s extensive global travels, the performance documents the moment he publicly jettisoned his identity as a jazz musician, and represents the start of his communal “mystical” period, later crystallized in recordings such as Organic Music Society, Relativity Suite, Brown Rice, and the soundtrack for Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Holy Mountain.
A1 Intro : Dha Dhin Na, Dha Tin Na
A2 Butterfly Friend
A3 Elixir
A4 Amazwe
A5 Interlude With Puppets
A6 Ganesh
B1 Elixir Reprise / Witchi Tai To
B2 ResaB3Relativity Suite, Part 1
C1 Berimbau Solo
C2 Interlude / North Brazilian Ceremonial Hymn
D1 Elixir Reprise / Ganesh
D2 Ntsikana's Bell / Traditional Melody
Black Form Editions Cat. No. BF 023 2021
