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Rufus Harley
Re-Creation Of The Gods
Genres: Jazz, Pop

Track Listings (7) - Disc #1
1. Crack
2. The Re-Creation of the Gods
3. Nobody Knows the Trouble Us People Done Seen
4. This Little Light of Mine
5. Hypothesis
6. Gods and Goddesses
7. Etymology

CD Details

All Artists: Rufus Harley
Title: Re-Creation Of The Gods
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Transparency
Original Release Date: 1/1/2006
Re-Release Date: 11/10/2009
Genres: Jazz, Pop
Styles: Avant Garde & Free Jazz, Soul-Jazz & Boogaloo, Bebop
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 716205023521

Synopsis

Product Description

First time on CD for this legendary funk/jazz/old school Bagpipe-lead-over-hot-band album from 1972. Rufus was a saxaphone player who also picked up the bagpipes for a few excellent 60's albums for Atlantic Records, and although those albums are great, this 1972 independent album is a real mind blower! The original LP lists on E-Bay for $150, and this CD adds a 10 minute track not even on that album! Also reprints all the original ultra-spiritual liner notes in an 8 page booklet, with superior graphics. 2006 was the year of resurrection for Rufus: besides several reissue projects for Transparency (including his guest appearance on the Sun Ra DVD Volume 4), he is being reissued on individual CDs in France, and an east coast label is compiling all of his Atlantic-era albums into a box set!

CD Reviews

Not your Momma's tartan!

Holly Reynolds | 11/03/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"The world lost a great one this year with the passing of Rufus Harley. He took his bagpipe to the world of Jazz and made it work! Oh if only it could always be that "when worlds collide" the result is something as transcendent."

Amazing

William R. Nicholas | Mahwah, NJ USA | 04/07/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I don't know who this guy was or where he came from, but he is brillant. Who would think of mixing bagpipes with 70s Jimmy Smith/Larry Young style organ.

Well, Harley did, and the results are phonomanal. Part of the hook here is that he is not using bagpipes the way you would normally hear them. Harley somehow makes these things take on a droney, middle eastern tone. He extends a few notes and draws them out, and so the pipes work as ambience.

When I was a kid, my dad was in a pipe and drums band, and I was forced to listen to a lot of traditional bagpipes music. Freudian or not, I HATE the bagpipes.

But in this context, their use is just increadible. Rufus Harley is thinking so outside the box here--I mean, who the hell would want to try this-that it makes for outstanding and facinating music

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