JIHAD rare soul/funk 45 BEAUTIFUL BLACK WOMEN LISTEN
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BEAUTUFUL BLACK WOMEN
Jihad Records RARE 45
"Black & Beautiful, Soul & Madness was the first word-music record I did completely devoted to this form. It was recorded at my home and in the small theater my wife, Amina, and I built there The Spirit House, after the implosion of the Harlem based Blacks Arts Repertory Theater-School. Spirit House, like the Black Arts, was created to present Black theater, poetry, music and political dialogue.
B&B featured Yusef Iman, an actor I met at the Black Arts who began to come to the Spirit House after the Arts folded. Yusef was a member of the Spirit House Movers & Players which we shortened to The Spirit House Movers. The singing group B&B, the Jihad Singers, was an R&B singing group that Yusef was a member of, the lead singer Freddie Johnson, who I never saw again after the record date. All the musicians were local.
Singer Aireen Eternal was Yusef's wife. In our mind we wanted to create world-music that reflected the Motown vibe so popular in the late-'60s. 'Beautiful Black Women' used Smokey Robinson's 'OOOH Baby, Baby' as a model. 'Black And Beautiful' was created by Yusef & Freddie and seemed a classic R&B du-wop send-up. But we also had a clear vision of what we wanted to say regarding the Afro-American struggle for equal rights and self-determination, at least we thought of ourselves as cultural workers, revolutionary artists 'pushing the program' as some of our cultural nationalist comrades were wont to say. I think you can feel our excitement and commitment." [Amiri Baraka, September, 2009]
This really is an incredible relic of the righteous underground of the late ‘60s from the Spirit House Movers -- and one of the few 45s ever on the Jihad label! They truly are like a mix of the Last Poets and the Miracles. This single on Jihad Records pairs the marvelous tunes : “Beautiful Black Women” and “Black And Beautiful – Miss Natural Soul.”
LISTEN TO PART OF THIS RECORD HERE!
CONDITION: VG+
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