Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra 60 Years

• Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra – The Golden Pearl
• Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra – Little A's Chant
• Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra – Nation Rising
• Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra – The Ballad of Deadwood Dick
• Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra – Justice
• Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra – Dem Folks

• 1. The Golden Pearl
• 2. Little A's Chant
• 3. Nation Rising
• 4. The Ballad of Deadwood Dick
• 5. Justice
• 6. Dem Folks

60 Years is a compilation of previously unreleased PAPA recordings, featuring one track from each decade of the band's history, carefully picked the folks at The Village along with PAPA members. From a recording of a small ensemble in Horace Tapscott's garage in the very early 60s to the Arkestra playing in its current form in 2019, from artists like Butch Morris all the way to Angel Bat Dawid, the range of PAPA is shown in incredible detail.

Remastered from archival sources by the Arkestra’s longstanding engineer Wayne Peet, 60 Years is presented by The Village – a label operated by members of the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra. With archival photographs documenting the Arkestra’s history, the album arrives with liner notes featuring track-by-track commentary from Arkestra members past and present. In the words of Mekala Session, ‘This release is the culmination of 60 years of Black history through sound’. South Central’s musical colossus is still very much awake, and 60 Years reveals the secrets of the Ark.