Music For The Texts Of Ishmael Reed
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Ishmael Reed's 1984 *Music For The Texts Of Ishmael Reed* is a restless, shape-shifting document that refuses easy categorization—which is precisely the point. Recorded in Germany on the American Clavé label, the album threads together Reed's spoken-word performances with Conjure, a ensemble equally comfortable in Afro-Cuban grooves, free improvisation, and blues-inflected funk. Reed, the Bay Area writer and cultural provocateur, had always understood music as inseparable from his larger project of dismantling literary and social conventions; here, his voice moves between rhythmic incantation, conversational storytelling, and philosophical musing while the musicians orbit around him—sometimes locking into hypnotic grooves, sometimes fragmenting into collective exploration. Tracks like "Jes' Grew" and "Oakland Blues" ground themselves in recognizable idioms before subtly destabilizing them, while the interplay between Reed's text and the ensemble's willingness to follow unconventional pathways creates something genuinely exploratory rather than merely academic.
Item Details+
| Genre | Jazz, Funk / Soul, Blues, Non-Music |
| Style | Afro-Cuban Jazz, Fusion, Jazz-Funk, Poetry, Free Improvisation, Spoken Word |
| Media | Near Mint (NM or M-) |
| Sleeve | Very Good Plus (VG+) |
| Description | Record is EX. Sleeve great VG+. Carefully packed and shipped with love from Vienna. Order more, save on shipping! |
| Label | American Clavé |
| Year | 1984 |
| Country | Germany |
| Format | LP |
Tracklist+
A1. Jes' Grew 4:03
A2. The Wardrobe Master Of Paradise 5:38
A3. Dualism (1) 2:47
A4. Oakland Blues 4:28
A5. Skydiving 4:16
A6. Judas 2:14
B1. Betty Ball's Blues 3:24
B2. Untitled II 3:36
B3. Fool-Ology (The Song) 6:07
B4. From The Files Of Agent 22 3:19
B5. Dualism (2) 3:39
B6. Rhythm In Philosophy 1:40
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