ALBERT AYLER - New Grass LP abstract OR’s LITHICS

OR’s LITHICS

this time his second solo album

Tom stayed for the recording of their 1994 DGC debut Speed Is Dreaming

as well as the synthesizer elements that color the songs

finally solidifying with Nunn also taking up second guitar duties and drummer Mike Smith joining prior to recording Free Again

ALBERT AYLER - New Grass LP abstract OR’s LITHICSAylers 1969 album New Grass has been misunderstood from the day of its release. The album finds Ayler experimenting with soul music and digging back into his R&B roots (he started his career playing saxophone with Chicago bluesman Little Walter), fusing it with the avant garde free jazz (the one element of the record which garnered consistent praise) and adding the vocals of Rose Marie McCoy, The Soul Singers and Ayler himself. As if predicting the