Natural Black Inventions: Root Strata

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Natural Black Inventions: Root Strata
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Studio album by
Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Released1971
RecordedJanuary 26 & February 4, 1971
Genre Jazz
Label Atlantic
Rahsaan Roland Kirk chronology
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Natural Black Inventions: Root Strata is an album by jazz multi-instrumentalist Rahsaan Roland Kirk featuring performances by Kirk with accompaniment by drummer Maurice McKinley and percussionist Joseph "Habao" Texidor, and with Sonelius Smith on piano on three tracks. [2]

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Releases and reception

The album was originally released by Atlantic Records. [2] It was first released on CD in 1998, by 32 Records. [3] The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow states: "The performances are episodic and colorful with plenty of humor and adventurous moments, worthy of repeated listenings and amazement". [1] The JazzTimes wrote that Kirk "forces the listener to hear his multi-horn free associations and his serpentine asides not as charming, off-center diversions, but as pointedly structuralist works". [4]

Track listing

All compositions by Rahsaan Roland Kirk except as indicated.
  1. "Something for Trane That Trane Could Have Said" - 3:08
  2. "Island Cry" - 3:54
  3. "Runnin' from the Trash" - 2:16
  4. "Day Dream" (Duke Ellington, John Latouche, Billy Strayhorn) - 3:42
  5. "The Ragman and the Junkman Ran from the Businessman They Laughed and He Cried" - 3:04
  6. "Breath-A-Thon" - 1:55
  7. "Rahsaanica" - 3:43
  8. "Raped Voices" - 1:47
  9. "Haunted Feelings" - 2:27
  10. "Prelude Back Home" - 3:45
  11. "Dance of the Lobes" - 2:06
  12. "Harder and Harder Spiritual" - 2:35
  13. "Black Root (Back to the Root)" - 3:17

Source: [1]

  • Recorded at Regent Sound Studios, NYC, January 26 (tracks 1–3, 5, & 7–12) and February 4 (tracks 4, 6 & 13), 1971 [2]

Personnel

Source: [2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Yanow, Scott. "Rahsaan Roland Kirk / Roland Kirk: Natural Black Inventions: Root Strata". AllMusic . Retrieved October 18, 2020.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Rahsaan Roland Kirk discography accessed 17 August 2009.
  3. ↑ AAJ Staff (February 1, 1998). "Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Dog Years In The Fourth Ring". All About Jazz . Retrieved October 18, 2020.
  4. ↑ Shoemaker, Bill (April 1, 1998). "Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Dog Years in the Fourth Ring". JazzTimes . Retrieved October 18, 2020.
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