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Claude Delcloo/Arthur Jones-AFRICANASIA CD-R burn (originally issued on BYG-Actuel)

Another one from the Bill Shute burn file, a surprisingly obscure enough rip taken from what I guess is an actual BYG release considering the horrid pressing and skips to he beard therein. But we never let such little trivialities shake us to our very core, have we? An as-yet-unreissued rarity featuring Frog drummer Delcloo and Amerigan expat Jones leading the standard BYG stable (Jarman, Mitchell, Terroade, Thornton, Favors...) through a heavily Africanized session featuring loads of percussion and an appealing enough funky groove that ain't exactly "Soul Masouka" but it'll do. Delcloo bangs drums and Jones (also the star of his own BYG album a year or so later) plays auto sax while Jarman, Mitchell and Terroade play nothing but their flutes throughout the pieces while Thornton, Favors and Earl Freeman clang and bang a number of percussives giving this session the extra-spooky feel. Naturally a session like this w/o bass and with all of those flutes and congas isn't gonna sound like your average Newport Light Jazz offering but it still is surprisingly engaging especially when the flutes return to this nice simple refrain that comes off a whole lot more "world music" than your standard mix 'n match serious musician. Downright pleasing in fact, especially when it stirs the soul, and maybe slices and dices a few innards while it's at it. I'm sure there are rips of this easily enough available all around...I found a neat blog called 9 Grey Chairs (linked up on the left) that claims to have not only this but a whole load of avant garde wonders rare and not-so available for a mere click, but I wasn't able to find out exactly where these downloads are to be found. I guess that's what I get for being such a doof in computer class!