Marion Brown, Geechee Recollections (side A)

Geechee Recollections, from 1973, makes it hard to fathom that Marion Brown was part of full on New York energy jazz only a few years before! Even at it's jazziest, it's pretty laid-back, without much trace of his connections to Ascension or ESP Records. The less jazzy parts are even stranger, with poetic narration and strangely "modern" mixes where the small percussion and kalimbas are close-mic'ed and compressed to come out in front of the (organically) louder instruments. The overall feel is pretty laid back, and the oddest parts sound almost like he's inventing some indigenous culture that never existed.