Milford GravesFeaturing: Sonny Morgan
Percussion Ensemble (CD)
LabelESP-Disk', CalibreGenreJazz & Improvisation
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Two drummers, no other instruments, and one of the most radical propositions in recorded music. Milford Graves and Sunny Morgan made Percussion Ensemble for ESP in 1965 by simply removing everything a rhythm section is normally there to support, leaving a dense, breathing, non-metrical conversation between two kits. Graves would spend the following fifty years as a martial artist, herbalist and researcher into cardiac rhythm, and every one of those preoccupations is audible here in embryo. Percussion treated as a language rather than a function.
ESP-Disk' CD edition. The sensible way to actually live with this music, if the original is out of reach.
Release notes
Recorded July, 1965. Re-mastering at Byton Studio's Loosdrecht, The Netherlands.
| 1 | Nothing 5-7 | 2:34 | |
| 2 | Nothing 11-10 | 6:25 | |
| 3 | Nothing 19 | 7:33 | |
| 4 | Nothing 13 | 5:15 | |
| 5 | Nothing | 11:55 |
- Higher Prods
- Art Direction [Calibre], Research
- Sunny Morgan
- Drums, Bells
- Milford Graves
- Drums, Bells, Gong [Gongs], Shaker [Shakers], Composed By [All Compositions By]
- Richard L. Alderson
- Engineer
- Bob Greene
- Photography By [Original Cover Photo]
- Frans De Rond
- Remastered By
