THE PYRAMIDS - Birth / Speed / Merging (2022 Reissue) - LP - Vinyl

LP - Black Vinyl

Strut present 3 separate reissues of the 1970s album trilogy from Idris Ackamoor and The Pyramids. As students at Antioch college, Ohio, alto saxophonist Idris Ackamoor, flautist Margaux Simmons and bass player Kimathi Asante created three lasting
monuments in sound — Lalibela, King of Kings, and Birth / Speed / Merging, a trio of albums produced without any label backing or distribution between 1972 and 1976. Their music is unique among the varied canon of avant-garde and experimental
music of 1970s America: high intensity African-styled percussion topped with songs, chants, and horns, laced with African instruments and arranged into long, flowing suites that surge and roll.

Birth/Speed/Merging was recorded in 1976 after the band's move to San Francisco. The album closes the Pyramids' 70s trilogy and makes more use of studio technology: adding overdubs and other effects, a marked departure from the previous two releases, though at no cost to the urgent message and energy of their earlier works.

Tracklist:

Side A
A1. Birth / Speed / Merging Suite Part 1. Aomawa [5:29]
A2. Part 2. Birth/Speed/Merging [7:40]
A3. Part 3. Reaffirmation [7:33]

Side B
B1. Jamaican Carnival [6:39]
B2. Black Man And Woman Of The Nile [16:22]