Carla Bley Paul Haines Escalator Over The Hill
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Carla Bley & Paul Haines / Escalator Over The Hill. 3 Record Box Set on the JCOA Record Label, Printed in Germany. Includes original multi-page book with many, many pics of the band and detailed songs and instrumentation. Hard to find, record and cover in near mint condition.
There is rock music, early synthesizer and ring modulator experiments. The somber sectional "Hotel Overture" with avant-squeal solos from clarinetist Perry Robinson and the young Gato Barbieri in all his Wild Bull of the Pampas glory, the clear voice of Linda Ronstadt brightening up a song called "Why," Don Cherry's clarion trumpet work, the power trio of John McLaughlin, Jack Bruce and Paul Motian rumbling energetically away amidst the Indian structures of "Rawalpindi Blues."
Originally released on three LPs, an almost unheard-of extravagance in 1971. Thie hard-to-find LP version does have an advantage, for the work concludes with an endless windy drone via one of those locked run-out grooves, an effect that obviously cannot be transferred to a CD, which shuts off automatically.
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