condition (record/cover): NM / NM

No obi.

One continuous composition across two sides, and one of the summits of the Art Ensemble of Chicago's Paris years: People In Sorrow, recorded in France in 1969, builds from near-silence through little instruments, keening horns and gathering density to a climax of overwhelming collective grief. Patience as a compositional principle - the piece teaches you how to listen to it as it goes, rewarding stillness with detail and detail with devastation. Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman and Malachi Favors at the peak of their telepathy, in the pre-Moye period when the four of them generated all that percussion themselves, passing instruments like a ritual. Many serious listeners consider this the single greatest AEC record, and the argument is easy to respect once you have sat through the final minutes at proper volume.

Japanese Odeon pressing, quiet vinyl for music that starts from a whisper and needs every decibel of silence it can get.