Dimension 381 - Morning

VINYL FORMAT. One-sided release. Music in its highest form has always strived to demolish its physical and temporal limitations to establish the atmosphere for aural transcendence. While mass-appeal concerns the majority of the musical output of our collective energy, the vanguard searches elsewhere for its cues, in the muddy physical abstraction of consumption, the navigation of ethereal obscurity, the metaphysical terrain of philosophical reflection: the replacement of our bored everyday perception in favor of a music that delivers a totally encapsulated escape. While little is known concerning the mysterious 'Morning,' it can be assumed that this treasure of jazz ingenuity must have been created during the legendary years of spiritual re-invention of American black expression, charted somewhere in the arable cultural landscape of the early 1970s U.S. musical culture, a time when the turn to the metaphysical possibilities of music, sound and performance were being investigated with the same experimental rigor as the German electronic scene. And while 'Morning' balks at the petty limitations of conventional appeal, its sensation is still principally soothing and therapeutic - essentially popular - while remaining definitively groundbreaking and limit-pushing, stripping the banalities of the standard in contemporary jazz and purifying it's most consciousness-altering properties. 'Morning' takes on the task of the warm and friendly guide through the sonic landscape of heady and blissful artistic diversion, clashing with our typically un-ambitious musical surroundings and inspiring us with its aspiring grandeur to take our art more seriously and our daily obligations much less so. Chosen by Paul Nickerson for the 1979 Foundation for the Black Arts. 100 pressed. This release is in direct conflict with the Unlawful Societies Act of 1799.