** One-time pressing, 250 copies. Deluxe Tip-on sleeve, gold foil, glossy UV-varnish. Transparent outer sleeve with typography silkscreened in white on clear acetate. ** Every once in a while, recordings emerge from the shadows of time that entirely upend what is accepted and known, rewriting the constructs of history with their sounds. This is certainly the case with Postones - the latest from De Occulta Records - comprising an astounding body of work made by Vito Ricci with Rashied Ali and Byard Lancaster during the early 1980s. Viewed through the lens of Ricci's seminal 1985 LP, Music From Memory - a groundbreaking gesture of ambient No Wave - for which he remains most celebrated and known, Postones pulls the rug from beneath most widely held perceptions of his proximity as an artist, encountering him working within intimate and enduring collaborations with two luminaries of free jazz, just prior to its release. Doubling as revelatory historical document of widely overlooked creative happenings and conjunctions within downtown New York at the time - moving between free jazz fire and percussion-driven theatre scores - this astounding document, recorded between 1980 and 1984, was originally released as a tiny, now virtually unobtainable cassette edition on Ricci's own Creation imprint in 1984.

Ricci entered the thriving creative enclave of the New York downtown during the early 1970s, initially playing percussion with folk singers before being drawn toward electrical experiments and punk toward the end of the decade. In 1975, he crossed paths with his neighbor, Rashied Ali - one of the great luminaries of free jazz, who had emerged during the 1960s as a drummer within the bands of Sonny Rollins, Bill Dixon, Paul Bley, Frank Wright, Noah Howard, John Coltrane, and Alice Coltrane, before becoming a singular bandleader in his own right. Toward the end of the 1970s, Ali turned up at Ricci's loft with the legendary multi wind instrumentalist Byard Lancaster, laying the final piece of the puzzle for the creative connections that would make up the diverse recordings across the length of Postones.

The album's first side is taken up by a stunning concert recording from 1980 at St. Mark's Church, capturing a duo performance between Lancaster on flute, sax, and voice, and Ricci on drums and synthesizer. Deeply lyrical, guided by Lancaster's restrained tonal lines, flirting at the edges of free jazz fire and offset by Ricci's clattering polyrhythms and synth pulses, it's an absolutely engrossing performance. The second side is largely dedicated to duo collaborations between Ricci and Ali, created within the live dance and theater performance context: Club Scene and Powerhouse, both accompanying a performance by Matthew Maguire at The Public Theater, and Stream / Tornado, created for Maguire's Fun City at La Mama in 1984. Rippling, percussive minimalism entering hypnotic states - timeless and impossible to fully place.

Issued in full collaboration with Ricci, featuring illuminating liner notes penned by the artist himself. Limited vinyl edition. First ever reissue.