Acid Head Sounds

Wowza! Three posts this month, so I am managing to keep to my pledge of maintaining this blog.

I recently bought a copy of Ray Barretto's Acid + Head Sounds [Vampisoul] which collects tracks from two late 60's lps. You may be forgiven for thinking that the title suggests some sort of psychsploitation/space age bachelor pad/astro sounds fest. Well, no, but the eight minute Drum Poem (Free Spirit) and Espiritu Libre do take the listener on a trip. Overall, the cd delivers high energy percussion heavy latin boogaloo which deserves a place on your Christmas list.

Dipping into the used bins netted me a copy of Lee "Scratch" Perry & Mad Professor's Black Ark Experryments [Ariwa Sounds]. Perry extraplanetary dub reliably delivers sonic surprises and I'm guessing that the 'Professor is keeping Perry focused on the task at hand. High points: Thank You and Jungle Safari.

Krautrock veteran Uli Trepte [Guru Guru, Spacebox, Neu!, Faust, etc] has a new disk out. Credited to the Uli Trepte Quintett, Multiphonic Music [Ordnung & Hartmann Records] has ten tracks of his unique take on bass-heavy jazz instro's. He backed with regular collaborators Hans Hartmann, Edgar Hoffmann and Tapsi Kim and is joined by Geoff Leigh on flutes and sax. Trepte is one of the few sticking with the promise of the German underground and is deserving of your support.