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Something Different!!!!!

My Name Is Albert Ayler

Swing Low Sweet Spiritual

Spiritual Unity

New York Eye And Ear Control

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The Hilversum Session

Spirits Rejoice

Sonny’s Time Now

At Slug’s Saloon

Live In Europe 1964-66

Stockholm, Berlin 1966

Lorrach/Paris 1966

Lost Performances 1966

In Greenwich Village

Music Is The Healing Force Of The Universe

Live On The Riviera

Nuits De La Fondation Maeght

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(from Work - Issue 3, Winter1965/1966.)




	Back to Bibliography: Poetry ***** Graham Hartill** Smoke: (for Albert Ayler) Smoke from the riverbanks, music, swelling into pleasure borne downriver on the steamers, deposited back into nooks and elbows of thick Mississippi – so soul lives, settlement persists – it’s the music, the thoroughfare that is the people’s body lilts from entanglement of pain into the wide time of America’s shout and it is always Easter whenever an artist discovers gold in the oldest songs and redeems it, shoving them onwards to where they are ever wanted – the white continents’ eyes consumptive, glazed by capitalism, banal, and gagging for red soul-flowers Easter Sunday morning – listening out for the giant Golden Day of a trumpet bell, and the whipped ensemble of drum-skins, the bowed bass and the smoke Back to Bibliography: Poetry

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