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THE HAR-YOU PERCUSSION GROUP THE SAME-TITLED FIRST AND ONLY ALBUM HAR-YOU PERCUSSION GROUP - INSANELY RARE TRUE FIRST PRESSING ORIGINAL 1966 ORO/ESP-DISK STEREO LP ORO-5 THIS IS ONLY THE FOURTH COPY WE VE SEEN IN ABOUT 40 YEARS OF COLLECTING, THE SECOND BLACK WHITE COVER WE HAVE EVER SEEN, AND THE FIRST STILL SEALED COPY WE HAVE EVER HELD IN OUR HANDS WE DO NOT EXPECT TO SEE ANOTHER STILL SEALED COPY - EVER AGAIN
ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING
INSANELY RARE STILL SEALED GUARANTEED ORIGINAL FIRST PRESSING
EASILY , BY FAR THE RAREST LATIN ALBUM IN EXISTENCE: NOTHING ELSE COMES EVEN CLOSE STILL SEALED SPECIMENS ARE ALL BUT UNKNOWN
GUARANTEED ORIGINAL, UNIQUE TO THIS TITLE, ORANGE ORO/ESP ART LABELS WITH BLACK IMAGES OF THE GROUP MEMBERS ARRANGED ALONG THE PERIMETER OF THE LABEL , SUCH AS THE ONE SHOWN ABOVE, FROM OUR PREVIOUS AUCTION
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.
TWO BREATHE AIR HOLES NOTED ON THE SHRINK WRAP
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
ULTRA-RARE TRUE FIRST PRESSING WITH BLACK WHITE VERSION OF THE COVER
VERY THICK, HEAVY VINYL PRESSING
PLEASE SEE THE IMAGE OF THE COVER, LABEL OR BOTH, SHOWN BELOW
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The 1964 events that led to the creation of the HAR-YOU project and the formation of the HAR-YOU Percussion Group out of the Harlem Youth Act were the stuff of legend: consider, for instance, the fortuitous meeting of extraordinarily talented bassist and Charles Mingus student Julien Euell, in his incarnation as Executive Director of the Arts Culture Division of the HAR-YOU Act, and Musical Director Roger Montego Joe Sanders in 1965. The mandate was to create a music outreach program. Altruism and city funding aside, the result was equally legendary. Here preserved on this recording, Sounds Of The Ghetto, is a classic manifesto.
The band is not, strictly speaking, a percussion group, but more a large Afro-Cuban ensemble, brought together by Montego Joe, a percussionist who taught the group and was also its music director. There is an earnestness and authenticity that is absent from many recordings of that era. In fact, this recording will rank with Alan Douglas Last Poets recording This Is Madness Metrotone, 1971 , albeit using a different, instrumental idiomatic format Afro-Cuban to be exact. Tracks such as Feed Me Good and Barretts Bag only serve to provide a tantalizing taste of the rhythmic excursion that follows. The real stuff comes shortly thereafter in the energetic bursts of polyrhythmic invention on Ngoma and Oua-Train are the iconic musical excursions of a generation that first discovered its Afrocentricity, but with guileless transparency and ingenuity.
The instrumentalism is dazzling. Saxophonist Nelson Sanamiago on Oua-Train and bassist John Moody are memorable for their ideas and virtuosity. The percussionists themselves Myles Mathews, Billy King, Sam Turner, Gordon Jones and Joseph Jimenez, are exquisite on Ngoma and Welcome To The Party . It may have been an act of government to create the HAR-YOU Project, but it was certainly an inspired act of determination and belief that enabled Roger Montego Joe Sanders to bring this project to ESP-Disk and Bernard Stollman, who would release it in 1967. Now the record appears once again from the ESP Archives, and it sounds as fresh and musically relevant as the day it was produced.
EXCERPT FROM AN ONLINE REVIEW BY RAUL D GAMA-ROSE, ALL MUSIC GUIDE /ALLMUSIC.COM/
CONDITION:
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 apparently 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
COVER THIS IS THE RARE ORIGINAL BLACK WHITE COVER
COVER IS NEAR MINT, STILL SEALED AND COVERED IN ITS ORIGINAL SHRINK WRAP
