Luna – Space Swell / Arhoolie LP-ST8001

Description

Arhoolie LP-ST8001
This is an original still sealed vinyl record, of which we still have a small quantity. Recorded at Sierra Sound Studio – Berkeley, Calif. in August of 1967.

Free jazz. ” A whole lot of people playing a whole lot of notes at once” (Lee Cronbach). Arguably one of the most unusual LPs issued on the Arhoolie label.

Luna consisted of:
Lee Cronbach: piano
Pat Wallace: bass clarinet
Gabriel Stern: flute; alto saxophone
Harvey P. Warren: violin; trombone; drums
Ed Epstein: tenor saxophone
Tom Koosis: alto saxophone
Mike Vannice: alto saxophone
Bill Hannaford: trombone; slide trumpet; bass; helicon
Vince Gomez: bass
Ellsworth Johnson: drums
Bill Grauss: drums; trombone

Tracks:

Space Swell
Between silence – a point

Moon and Flag Polka
Walking tour of the mausoleum

We’ll Think of that Later
We return to there

Nisaba in the Grass
Picnic-dance and swap stories

Twin Bass Bass
Red dragonflies!
Take off their wings
And they are pepperpods! (Kikaku)

Warp
Eight views? – as well
Mist hid seven when I heard
Miidera’s bell (Basho)

Paraphernalia
A great Lord! – who
Gets him off his horse like this?
Cherry blossoms do! (Basho)