AYLER, Albert - Love Cry (Verve By Request Series) - Vinyl (LP)
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Free delivery on many items. Same-day despatch, no-question returns. Authorised dealers - full technical support. Online since 1997. Shop categories Information Albert AYLER Love Cry (Verve By Request Series) (gatefold 180 gram audiophile vinyl LP) Verve
Cat: 554066 4. Rel: 11 Sep 23
Jazz
Side 1 - Track 1. Love CrySide 1 - Track 2. GhostsSide 1 - Track 3. OmegaSide 1 - Track 4. Dancing FlowersSide 1 - Track 5. BellsSide 1 - Track 6. Love FlowerSide 2 - Track 1. Zion HillSide 2 - Track 2. Universal Indians
Saxophonist Albert Ayler laid down his controversial piece de resistance, Love Cry, in 1968. Renowned for its psychedelic influences, weird use of harpsichord, and subversion of worldless vocal traditions (the ultimate finale, 'Universal Indians', is by far the album's star piece, thanks to cathartic trills from Ayler himself), the album was also panned by some at the time, such as writer Val Wilmer passing comment on Ayler's voice as untrained and "torturous". But we believe transgressions such as this are ones that make manifest the radical potential in free jazz; after all, art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. It's albums like Love Cry - which came about at a time of radical transformation in the world, and which preceded Ayler's death by only two years - which restore our faith in music.
