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Albert Ayler - Witches & Devils AKA Spirits (Freedom/Polydor, 2383 089, UK, 1972 reissue)

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Another from Henry, this time with another regular collaborator, Albert Ayler. This one’s been back and forth between its original Spirits title and Witches & Devils so many times. This was a nice value, nice sounding early ‘70s UK reissue. Wouldn’t surprise me if this pops up as an RSD reissue in the future.
 
The agutierrezb 2019 record collection challenge

So I've decided to embark on my own personal challenge, which consists of listening every record in my collection before the end of the year. My record collection is not that big -only ~250-, but I still feel like there are a bunch of records I don't give enough attention to, while still adding more titles to my shelves.

For this reason I've set a couple of rules in order to play every record at least once before December 31st: I'll play at least one record a day, going from front to back in the way I have them sorted in my shelf. I can play a different record (i.e. Not the next one in alphabetical order) if I feel like listening to something else in any given moment, but at least one of the records I spin in the day has to be the LP in turn.

I didn't take pictures for the first two days, but I'll try to document the process from here on, so I'll be posting daily on this thread. Wish me luck!
#197: Nxworries - Yes lawd!

#198: Other Lives - Tamer Animals

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Marion Brown Quartet - La Placita: Live in Willisau (Timeless Muse, TI 314, 1979)

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Makaya’s dad, Steve McCraven is the drummer on this and it appears the apple didn’t fall far from the tree. He really belts out a cracking solo towards the end of this first track.
I went on a Stephen McCraven rabbit hole the other month. Even ended up chatting to the free-jazz bassist Joe Fonda and he contacted some of his friends to see if anyone had a vinyl copy of 'Up From The Sky' which McCraven appears on. I will have to track down that Marion Brown now!
 
Matthew Halsall - On The Go (Gondwana Records, 2016 first pressing with bonus tracks)

One of my favourite modern pickups from last year, great music throughout! I saw that he is playing at the Barbican later on in the year (well, he was supposed to be) and I was really tempted to get tickets, they're just so damn pricey!

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