Lenny White - The Adventures of Astral Pirates (1978) CD Rip

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Artist: Lenny White
Title: The Adventures of Astral Pirates
Year Of Release: 2002
Label: Wounded Bird Records[WOU 6121]
Genre: Jazz, Jazz Funk, Fusion
Quality: FLAC (image + .cue,log,scans)
Total Time: 39:16
Total Size: 248 MB(+3%)
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist

01 - Prelude: Theme For Astral Pirates
02 - Chapter 1: Pursuit
03 - Chapter 2: Mandarin Warlords
04 - Chapter 3: The Great Pyramid
05 - Chapter 4: Universal Love
06 - Chapter 5: Remembering
07 - Chapter 6: Revelation (Astral Pirates)
08 - Chapter 7: Stew, Cabbage and Galactic Beans
09 - Chapter 8: Heavy Metal Monster
10 - Chapter 9: Assult
11 - Chapter 10: Climax: Theme For Astral Pirates

Lenny White - The Adventures of Astral Pirates (1978) CD Rip

personnel :

Lenny White - synthesizer, drums, syndrums, percussion
Don Blackman - vocals, piano, electric piano, organ, synthesizer
Nick Moroch - guitar
Jeff Sigman - guitar
Alex Blake - bass

One of Lenny White's finest, most essential albums, The Adventures of Astral Pirates is a jazz-fusion masterpiece with a futuristic science-fiction theme. Star Wars was number one at the box office when, in 1977, White produced this disc with Al Kooper, and perhaps Elektra was hoping to cash in on the film's popularity. If you open the record's foldout cover, you can read White's tale of sci-fi battles that take place in the fifth millennium A.D. But you don't have to be a sci-fi fan to appreciate the mostly instrumental songs on this imaginative, risk-taking album, which finds White blending a jazz/rock/funk foundation with elements of everything from Middle Eastern music to Asian music. This set isn't the least bit predictable, and it could easily be described as "the sound of surprise" -- critic Whitney Balliett's term for jazz -- even though no one will mistake it for straight-ahead bop any time soon. ~ Alex Henderson

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