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Donald Alexander Strachan and The Freedom Ensemble Soul Translation: A Spiritual Suite

Universal Sound

Jazz

New LP (180g) USLP53£23.00
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Donald Alexander Strachan and The Freedom Ensemble – Temptation
Donald Alexander Strachan and The Freedom Ensemble – The Word
Donald Alexander Strachan and The Freedom Ensemble – Song of Searching
Donald Alexander Strachan and The Freedom Ensemble – Spiritual Travelers
Donald Alexander Strachan and The Freedom Ensemble – Masters of The Bourchakoun
Donald Alexander Strachan and The Freedom Ensemble – Silent Jubilation
Donald Alexander Strachan and The Freedom Ensemble – Tenth Door
Donald Alexander Strachan and The Freedom Ensemble – Aquarian Voices
Donald Alexander Strachan and The Freedom Ensemble – Soul Release

1. Temptation
2. The Word
3. Song of Searching
4. Spiritual Travelers
5. Masters of The Bourchakoun
6. Silent Jubilation
7. Tenth Door
8. Aquarian Voices
9. Soul Release

Soul Jazz Records/Universal Sound are releasing “Soul Translation: A Spiritual Suite" a superb lost USA deep jazz independent private-press album originally self-published by Donald Alexander Strachan and the Freedom Ensemble on Triad Music Concepts in 1975.

This great soulful/spiritual jazz album was the only album that Strachan released and consequently has become a lost rarity - a must for fans of Tribe, Strata-East and other conscious jazz from the 1970s and features in Gilles Peterson/Soul Jazz Records' Freedom, Rhythm and Sound book.

Donald Alexander Strachan is composer, conductor, guitarist, vocalist and more leading a large 11-piece line-up that includes Jay Hoggard on vibes.

Strachan studied in New York City in the 1970s with composer/saxophonist Sam Rivers and Ghanaian Drum-master Abraham Adzenyah as well as avant-garde guitarist/composer Bruce Johnson all of who helped shape his unique sound.

In the 1980s Strachan entered into the collaborative world of cinema by composing musical scores and has been involved in cinema ever since both musically, as a scriptwriter and director. Donald Alexander Strachan and the Freedom Ensemble’s “Soul Translation: A Spiritual Suite" is a unique product of Strachan’s multicultural and African-American heritage and aesthetic - polyrhythmically complex and spiritually intense.

This is a bespoke high quality hardback-cased Japanese thick card CD edition with exact-reproduction artwork from the original album.

The 180-gram vinyl thick card exact-reproduction artwork is strictly limted to 1000 copies wordwide.

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