Entourage - Ceremony of Dreams: Studio Sessions & Outtakes 1972-1977 : 3 x CDs
SKU
28-TPKS5463.2
This is very good music somewhere in the same neighborhood as Oregon was doing and what decades later became known in the classical music world as 'crossover'; if you like Oregon and 70s ECM, you'll most likely enjoy this album that consists of all previously unreleased material.
"The Entourage Music & Theatre Ensemble was a visionary group of musicians and dancers from Baltimore, Maryland. Though they likely had no idea, they were musical contemporaries of LaMonte Young's Theatre of Eternal Music, Terry Riley, Oregon, Harold Budd, Steve Reich, John Cale, and Brian Eno. The group developed a musical style based on the flow of energy and the dream state experience. They employed long, improvised acoustics and later, electronic works. While they performed as a unit, their music was often used as live accompaniment for avant-garde theater and dance troupes.
The outfit was founded in 1970 by musical director, saxophonist, and pianist Joe Clark, a conservatory-trained musician who had played in the U.S. Navy Band with Wayne Shorter. Clark held the Saturday after-hours slot at the Bluesette Nightclub, where he played an RMI Electra-piano in addition to black lacquer soprano and sopranino saxophones. He presided over an ensemble that included guitarist Wall Matthews, whose work was equally influenced by folk and jazz à la Bert Jansch and Davy Graham, a rock rhythm section, a self-taught conguero, a street poet, and a second pianist who also wailed/sang.
Matthews is the lone remaining founding member of the Entourage Music & Theatre Ensemble; he is the group's historian and legacy holder. In 2018, he teamed with Josh Rosenthal's Tompkins Square label to collate a three-CD/one-LP box set entitled Entourage: Ceremony of Dreams, that presented the group's recordings outside their two Folkways albums."-AllMusic/Thom Jurek
- LabelTompkins Square
- UPC856225005463