Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Shamek Farrah & Sonelius Smith - "The World Of The Children" (1976, Strata-East)


First posted at "Orgy In Rhythm" in September 2006. Text by Bacoso. Re-post by permission.

Another great session of spiritual soul jazz and one of the rarest albums on Strata-East from 1976. Shamek Farrah's soulful alto is matched with the free spiritual piano of Sonelius Smith, for a totally memorable session that virtually defines the essence of the Strata East sound. The music is free, but not too free; lyrical, but never indulgent; and always turning over with a fresh sense of imagination, and a strident groove that's very much in the classic Strata East mode.

The highlight of this lp is the latin romp of the 10 minute title tune "World Of The Children", a real banger of the first order. David Murray also cut a fantastic version of this with his big band on "South of the Border" which i will post some day.

This rip is from the original vinyl @320 but it did actually make a cd release in Japan on Bomba which is now deleted.

MUSICIANS

Bass - Kiyoto Fujiwara, Milton Suggs (track 3)
Drums - Freddie Wrenn
Percussion - Tony Waters
Piano - Sonelius Smith
Saxaphone - Shamek Farrah
Trumpet - Joseph Gardner

Recorded at Sound Ideas, April 1976

 TRACKLIST 

01 'The World Of The Children' (9:58)
02 'Conversation Piece' (6:28)
03 'Milt: A Bass Solo' (2:57)
04 'People Puttin People Through Changes' (7:17)
05 'Juluis' (5:22)


Also available by Shamek Farrah at 'Never Enough Rhodes' :
"First Impressions" (1974)
"La Dee La La (1980)
at

8 comments:

  1. johnvJuly 18, 2008 at 8:18 AM

    Thanks for making this and First Impressions available. I missed them the first time around.

    I got back from vacation and was stunned to see that OIR had gone out of business. Really a shame--I had a lot of fun on that blog and got a chance to learn about a ton of excellent music that was new to me.

    Thanks to you Simon for picking up the torch!

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  2. AnonymousJuly 26, 2008 at 4:47 AM

    Thank you for breathing life back into the great Orgy in Rhythm!

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  3. AnonymousJuly 31, 2008 at 3:37 AM

    listen to the drummer! he can´t play! in this track he is so out of time and hardly can keep the tempo, not to speak of the rhythm.

    how can this be released?

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  4. taro nombeiOctober 30, 2008 at 2:44 PM

    Hi Simon,
    Just browsing through some old posts, no particular reason, since I gratefully snapped this up first time round at OIR.
    Anyway, I spotted this: the name of the bass player should be Kiyoto FUJIWARA. Here's his web site:
    http://kiyotoclub.com/eng/index.html
    I'm guessing his name is misspelled on the actual album cover, although I've never seen the back.
    Not that he can complain: on his web site he misspells 'Geoge Russell', 'Ran Blake' and even 'villege Gate'.
    At least he gets Kenny Garrett right.
    cheers
    TN

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  5. Simon666October 30, 2008 at 3:33 PM

    Thanks TN, fixed it up now.

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  6. JazzDoItSeptember 26, 2009 at 12:45 AM

    Much much gratitude for this great record. It's the third time in a row that I am listening to... I love the introductions of all the tunes...

    Have pleasant jazzy day

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  7. peskypeskyMay 23, 2010 at 7:37 AM

    i've never heard of this artist before, but i'm looking forward to hearing his music. thank you!

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  8. Rev. bIGhIGDecember 26, 2016 at 2:21 PM

    Still up for download - excellent! and thank you.
    Been diggin' First Impressions,and now I've got this too.
    Amen, bro'

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