Brother Ah, Sound Awareness (side A)

1973's Sound Awareness is ostensibly an album by jazz/classical French horn player Robert Northern (Brother Ah), but in many more ways it's an exercise in excessive tape delay. Vocals, horns, and lots of percussion get swallowed by delay, which gives the album pulse and movement. It reminds me a bit of Sun Ra (with less keyboards) or Marion Brown's Afternoon of a Georgia Fawn (which was one of Manfred Eicher's earliest and best studio experiments on ECM). There's some compositional sense but a lot more ooze and drift. The nice vinyl reissue preserves the iconic cover (though I doubt the original was quite so glossy) and is mastered tastefully.