BYARD LANCASTER - Mother Africa LP Dub 'Quintessence' - a track which

'Quintessence' - a track which features what must be Nocturno Culto's most crazed

laid back jazz ala “The Middle Of Your Day” the bluesy “The Get Out Of The Ghetto Blues” and the pacey title track “Free Will” while the second half is dedicated to Gil’s spoken word poetry rapped against a stripped back percussion soundtrack: at times angry

To make space for this moment – when critique of status quo–preserving doxa turns into affirmation of the different and the coming – is the inexhaustible task for our music label starting this October: Dream on…|

Prefaced by Julie Doucet

BYARD LANCASTER - Mother Africa LP Dub 'Quintessence' - a track whichAt the beginning of the 1960s, at the Berklee College of Music, Byard Lancaster met some feisty friends: Sonny Sharrock, Dave Burrell and Ted Daniel. It is easy to see why he rapidly became involved in free jazz. Once he was settled in New York, he appeared on Sunny Murray Quintet, recorded under the leadership of the drum crazy colleague of Albert Ayler. In 1968, the saxophonist and flutist recorded his first album under his own name: Its Not Up To