BYARD LANCASTER - Mother Africa CD Death Rock Tom Halstead and Joe Andrews)

Tom Halstead and Joe Andrews) out via AD 93 on the 25th October

while Jyoti Hegde plays the so-called traditional rudra veena

she adapts beautifully

as Johnson"s voice swooped through fresh ranges

Chaotic flute layers transport the outro to “Beside Myself

BYARD LANCASTER - Mother Africa CD Death Rock Tom Halstead and Joe Andrews)At the beginning of the 1960s, at the Berklee College of Music, Byard Lancaster met some feisty friends: Sonny Sharrock, Dave Burrell and Ted Daniel. It is easy to see why he rapidly became involved in free jazz. Once he was settled in New York, he appeared on Sunny Murray Quintet, recorded under the leadership of the drum crazy colleague of Albert Ayler. In 1968, the saxophonist and flutist recorded his first album under his own name: Its Not Up To