Ketchaoua by Clifford Thornton

[ctuck1]

On Bandcamp 

https://bygrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ketchaoua

[clifford_thornton]

great news. One of my favorite Actuels (and this should be obvious, haha).

[Holy Ghost]

And if I'm reading correctly, a CD issue too? Yeeeeah!!!

On 1/28/2025 at 9:53 AM, clifford_thornton said:

great news. One of my favorite Actuels (and this should be obvious, haha).

You should be exceptionally pleased, Mr. Thornton.  

[clifford_thornton]

so all this stuff is from the tapes, huh?

If Charly has the tapes, I wonder if some of the unissued material survived? There's an additional piece from Luna Surface, an unissued Sunny Murray (which has a more complex story), a missing Mal Waldron track, and probably more.

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I created my label in 1969, my record Love's Last Cry and I called my company Infinity. On the record was Jimmy Garrison, Lonnie Liston Smith; it was Frank Lowe's first record, Alan Silva, Joe Lee Wilson was singin,' there was a guitarist, I forget his name but he had a shop on 8th Street, 8th and 2nd Ave. And five children singing, three of them was Alan's and two of 'em was mine. It was a beautiful album. And I brought that one to Europe and licensed it to BYG records and they gave me half the money and then they disappeared.

Lowe thought the pianist was Dave Burrell, so it might be either/or. 

[felser]

I've never heard the Thornton Actuel, look forward to it.  Also would love to hear that "Love's Last Cry" album.

[romualdo]

I was always under the impression that the Charly/Actuel tapes were lost years ago when their basement flooded