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CHILDREN OF THE SUN - OFAMFA - INSANELY RARE ORIGINAL PRIVATE PRESSING ON OBSCURE UNIVERSAL JUSTICE LABEL - ORIGINAL 1974 UNIVERSAL JUSTICE STEREO LP 29106 THE CATALOG NUMBER IS NOT VISIBLE ON THE COVER
ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING
GUARANTEED ORIGINAL YELLOW UNIVERSAL JUSTICE LABEL WITH BLACK PRINT.
THE THICKNESS OF THE VINYL, THE APPEARANCE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE COVER, LABEL S LOGO AND OTHER PERIPHERAL ELEMENTS OF THE COVER, ARE ALL PERFECTLY CONSISTENT WITH THE ORIGINAL, FIRST PRESSING OF THIS TITLE.
THIS ITEM COMES FROM THE INCREDIBLE, SINGLE-OWNER COLLECTION WE ACQUIRED A WHILE AGO, IN WHICH ITEMS ORIGINALLY BOUGHT BY THE OWNER FROM THE MID-1970s to THE MID-2010s WERE KEPT STILL SEALED IN A NEAR-LABORATORY, TIME-CAPSULE CONDITIONS AND IN PRACTICALLY CLIMATE- AND HUMIDITY- CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT. CONDITIONS OF SOME OF THESE ITEMS RANGE FROM IMPECCABLE TO TRULY UNBELIEVABLE. SOME OF THESE BEAUTIFUL MUSEUM PIECES LOOKED SO PERFECT THAT WE HAD TO REINSPECT AND RE-EXAMINE THEM A FEW TIMES TO MAKE SURE THEY OUR EYES ARE NOT DECEIVING US.
THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST U.S. PRESSING THIS IS NOT A REISSUE, AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.
ORIGINAL, THICK CARDBOARD COVER AMERICAN STYLE
THICK, HEAVY VINYL PRESSING
As far as we know, this album has NEVER been available on legitimate Compact Disc or in any other way, manner or format.
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OFAMFA was the first of the releases put out by Universal Justice and the Black Artists Group B.A.G. collective out of St. Louis. Whereas the later releases of this loose-knit group might have some comparisons with mass-marketed music, OFAMFA is in the territory of unique recordings.
The track Rent Man might be the exception, and is very reminiscent of the album Funky Donkey by Luther Thomas. The rest is part spoken word, part rather inept but effortful jazz, and part collective free group improvisation. Depending on your state of mind, it is either brilliant next-level sound art, or an incomprehensible and bumbling train wreck. Or both. I always think to myself, I could just listen to the amp hum from an anonymous location in St. Louis some 35 years ago and be content.
One thing is for sure, there s a good reason nobody else would release this. It makes John Coltrane sound like Get on the Good Foot. R-A-W. Even Arista avoided it when they raided the catalog to re-release Under the Sun and Whisper of Dharma. Hence, this is another entry in this blog s catalog of un-loved recordings that still haven t seen a proper digital release.
Ofamfa will be of interest to folks digging on some of the Black Artists Group Human Arts Ensemble material, and of course it will be of interest to those who dig on what cats like Last Poets and Watts Prophets were doing back in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In particular, the aproach reminds me of Last Poets album At Last - in other words think of it as jazzoetry.
EXCERPT FROM AN ANONYMOUS ONLINE REVIEW
Track list
A1 Sweet Street Song
A2 Uu-Twee
A3 After Jeremiah swed
A4 Sounds Of Scorpio
A5 Trane Songs
B1 Rent Man
B2 A Little Tom Is A Dangerious Thing
B3 Echos O Susanna
Credits
Bass, Percussion Arzinia Richardson
Cello Vincent Terrell
Drums, Percussion Charles Bobo Shaw
Soprano Saxophone, Alto Saxophone, Flute, Percussion, Harmonica, Voice Oliver Lake
Trumpet Ishac Rajab
Trumpet, Percussion Floyd LeFlore
Voice Ajule Rutlin
Notes
In the credits, the following individuals are listed as dancers who worked with the group : Carolyn Zachary, Etta Jackson, Johadi, and Sandra Weaver.
In conversations with participating artists, it has been clarified that Children of the Sun is the ensemble name and Ofamfa is the title of the record.
CONDITION:
THE RECORD:
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a THE ALBUM IS STILL FACTORY SEALED AND IS BELIEVED TO BE PERFECTLY MINT. Please note: sealed items are assumed to be mint and are sold as-is, as we have no way of inspecting them. For our policy on still sealed records click here PLEASE READ BEFORE PLACING A BID .
b The record is pressed on a beautiful, thick, inflexible vinyl, which was usually used for the first or very early pressings. Usually, the sound on such thick vinyl pressings is full-bodied, vivid, and even dramatic. Do not expect to obtain such a majestic analog sound from a digital recording
c Of course, this is a full-bodied ANALOG recording, and not an inferior, digital recording
THE COVER
