{"product_id":"angel-bat-dawid-requiem-for-jazz-2lp-purple-colour-vinyl","title":"Angel Bat Dawid - Requiem For Jazz [2LP Purple Colour Vinyl]","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFormat: 2 x LP, Purple Colour Vinyl\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCatalogue No.: IMRC61LPI\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBarcode: 0789993992737\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease Date: 24 Mar 2023\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenre: Jazz\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLimited Edition Thy Kingdom Come Purple Colour Vinyl – Indies Exclusive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRequiem for Jazz is a 12-movement suite composed and arranged by Angel Bat Dawid, inspired in part by dialogue from Edward O. Bland’s 1959 film “The Cry of Jazz.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe original form of the music was premiered at the 2019 edition of the Hyde Park Jazz Festival in Chicago, where Angel conducted a multigenerational fifteen-piece instrumental ensemble (all Black musicians from Chicago’s creative music community) alongside a four- person choir (featuring singers from Black Monument Ensemble), dancers, and visual artists in performance.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAngel mixed and post-produced recordings from the performance – adding interludes, vocals and additional sounds, as well as transcribing a piece from “The Cry of Jazz” film. The final movement of Requiem for Jazz features Marshall Allen and Knoel Scott of the Sun Ra Arkestra. Their contributions were recorded remotely at the historic Arkestral Institute of Sun Ra in Philadelphia in late 2020.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe final Requiem for Jazz work in album form is an immersive 24-track, double LP experience. The physical package is a deluxe, heavyweight gatefold jacket with liner notes by South African writer Nombuso Mathibela, artwork by Damon Locks, and a large fold out poster designed by Jeremiah Chiu, featuring poetry written by Angel Bat Dawid in dedication to all of her collaborators on the project. Additionally, there is a limited Thy Kingdom Come purple color vinyl edition of Requiem for Jazz available for the first pressing only.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTRACKLISTING\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1. Jazz is merely the Negroes cry of Joy \u0026amp; Suffering\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2. INTROIT- Joy n’ Suff’rin\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e3. Jazz is the musical expression of the triumph of the Negroes Spirit\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e4. KYRIE ELEISON- Lawd Hav’ Merci\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e5. This endless repetition is like a Chain around the Spirit. And is a reflection of the denial of a future to the Negro in the American way of life\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e6. DIAS IRE- Chain Around the Spirit\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e7. Another restraining factor in Jazz are the changes\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e8. TUBA MIRUM- The Changes\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e9. The Negro experiences the endless daily humiliation of American life which bequeaths him a Futureless Future\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e10. REX TREMENDAE –Futureless Future\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e11. The Negro transforms America’s image of him into a transport of Joy!\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e12. RECORDARE-Recall the Joy\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e13. Jazz reflects the improvised life thrust upon the Negro\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e14. CONFUTATIS-Repression\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e15. Through Spirituals, through the Blues, then through Jazz we made a memory of our past and a promise of all to come\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e16. LACRIMOSA- Weeping our Lady of Sorrow\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e17. Because Jazz is the one element in American life where whites must be humble to the Negro\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e18. OFFERTURIUM-HOSTIAS-Humility\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e19. Only when whites have paid the price in suffering to be the Negroes equal\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e20. SANCTUS- Holy, Holy, Holy\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e21. The Jazz body is dead but the Spirit of Jazz is Alive\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e22. AGNUS DEI-Jazz is Dead!\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e23. LUX AETERNA-Eternal Light (Angel Bat Dawid) -The Cry of Jazz (Sun Ra)\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e24. Long Tone for Rayna Golding (A Binti Zawadi our Future)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"International Anthems Recording Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42361929793692,"sku":"IMRC61LPI","price":18.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/unnamed_1_2d62d280-4400-4d22-97ff-393344ccb159.jpg?v=1677079027","url":"https:\/\/www.horizonsmusic.co.uk\/products\/angel-bat-dawid-requiem-for-jazz-2lp-purple-colour-vinyl","provider":"Horizons Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}