Henry Kuntz
Ancient Of Days Light Of Glory (LP)
LabelHumming Bird RecordsGenreJazz & Improvisation
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condition (record/cover): NM / VG+ (light general wear and tag on front)
Berkeley, and one of the more single-minded figures in American free music. Henry Kuntz spent the seventies publishing Bells, the newsletter that functioned as the connective tissue of the entire West Coast improvised music underground, and simultaneously making his own records for his own Humming Bird imprint with no thought of distribution whatsoever. His playing draws on Southeast Asian and Balinese music as much as on the American free tradition, using reeds, percussion and homemade instruments in dense overlapping layers. Private press documentation of a scene that largely refused to document itself.
Original Humming Bird pressing, minuscule run. Genuine outsider material, and one of the scarcer things in this sale.
Release notes
A record of free-form ritual music. Side A1-3 and side B2-6, 9 recorded live at Woody Woodman's Finger Palace, Berkeley, June 29, 1980. A4 recorded live at Woody Woodman's Finger Palace Sunday evening March 8, 1980. Side B1 recorded May 27, 1980, The Lab, San Francisco. Side B7 and 8 recorded Saturday noontime August 2, 1980 at Henry Kaiser's home in Oakland. All pieces are freely improvised, complete and unedited, with the exception of B6 where a short section with bells was not included. …
| A1 | Solo Flute | ||
| A2 | Solo Saxophone | ||
| A3 | Solo Saxophone | ||
| A4 | Saxophone Duet | ||
| B1 | Harp And Bells | ||
| B2 | Harp And Flute | ||
| B3 | Harp And Saxophone | ||
| B4 | Harp And Saxophone | ||
| B5 | Harp And Saxophone | ||
| B6 | Harp And Saxophone | ||
| B7 | Saxophone And Percussion | ||
| B8 | Saxophone And Percussion | ||
| B9 | Harp And Bells |
- John Gruntfest
- Alto Saxophone (A4)
- Jerry Pierson
- Design [Album Cover Designed], Other [Silk-Screened By]
- Charles Noyes
- Drums, Saw [Musical], Percussion [Various Percussion Instruments] (B7, B8)
- Henry Kuntz
- Flute [Bamboo], Tenor Saxophone, Bells, Producer [Record Production By], Liner Notes
- John Kuntz
- Harp [Troubador (Diatonic)] (B1 to B6, B9)
- Chris Jefferies
- Producer [Record Production By], Mastered By [Master Tape Prepared By], Recorded By (B1)
- Greg Goodman
- Recorded By (A1 to A4, B2 to B6, B9)
- Henry Kaiser
- Recorded By (B7, B8)
