LIMITED VINYL EDITION. Stamford Audio 
In 1969 the Chris McGregor Group was riding high on the London jazz scene, playing and hanging out with all the rising stars of British free jazz. Sessions for the previously unreleased "Up To Earth" brought together a dream team of South African exiles and some of the finest young players on the British scene - Chris McGregor piano, Dudu Pukwana alto saxophone, Mongezi Feza trumpet, Louis Moholo drums, John Surman baritone saxophone and bass clarinet, Evan Parker tenor saxophone with Barre Phillips or Danny Thompson on double bass.

"Up To Earth" was produced by Joe Boyd and engineered by John Wood at Sound Techniques studio in London, during the same months they were also working with several other luminaries of the Witchseason stable - Fairport Convention, Nick Drake and the Incredible String Band. The album was mastered and test pressings produced before the project was shelved.

The group morphed into the spectacular big band - the Brotherhood of Breath - and all energies were transferred to recording the Brotherhood's debut album. Stamford Audio, in association with Fledg'ling Records, is very proud to release this remarkable album as part of a reissue campaign highlighting Chris McGregor's wonderfully creative recordings from the late '60s and early '70s.

Brand New Sealed 180g Vinyl Mastered from Original Analogue Tapes