WENDELL HARRISON w/PHIL RANELIN MESSAGE FROM TRIBE RARE SEALED ORIG '73 TRIBE LP

$ 710

$ 710 Sold For

Mar 15, 2015 Sold Date

Mar 8, 2015 Start Date

$ 30 Start price

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· WENDELL HARRISON AND PHIL RANELIN with THE TRIBE LABEL COMMUNITY OF ARTISTS: MARCUS BELGRAVE, CHARLES EUBANKS AND OTHERS – MESSAGE FROM THE TRIBE - INSANELY RARE STILL SEALED ORIGINAL 1974 TRIBE RECORDS STEREO LP PRSD-2226

· ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING

*** STILL SEALED GUARANTEED ORIGINAL FIRST PRESSING ***

· GUARANTEED ORIGINAL RED TRIBE LABEL WITH 'AFRICAN WARRIORS HOLDING A SPEAR' LOGO AND BLACK PRINT

· THE THICKNESS OF THE VINYL, THE APPEARANCE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE COVER, LABEL’S LOGO AND OTHER PERIPHERAL ELEMENTS OF THE COVER, ARE ALL PERFECTLY CONSISTENT WITH THE ORIGINAL, FIRST PRESSING OF THIS TITLE.

· TWO “BREATHE” (AIR) HOLES NOTED ON THE SHRINK WRAP

· THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST U.S. PRESSING; THIS IS NOT A REISSUE, AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.

· ORIGINAL, THICK CARDBOARD COVER (AMERICAN STYLE)

· ULTRA-RARE FIRST VERSION OF THE COVER (BLACK & WHITE DRAWING), NOT THE 1975 REISSUE WITH THE COLOR PORTRAIT DRAWINGS OF THE THREE ARTISTS (HARRISON, RANELIN AND LEE)

· THICK, HEAVY VINYL PRESSING

· A NOTE ABOUT THE CD VERSIONS OF THIS ALBUM: VARIOUS CD RELEASES OF THIS TITLE (AS WELL AS ALL OTHER TRIBE TITLES) - NOTABLY JAPANESE IMPORTS - APPEAR TO HAVE BEEN SOURCED FROM THE ORIGINAL VINYL (TRIBE LP) RATHER THAN THE ORIGINAL SESSION MASTER TAPES, BY USING A PARTICULARLY CRUDE AND DEGRADING DE-CLICKING NOISE-REDUCTION SOFTWARE WHICH REDUCED THE HIGHER FREQUENCY RANGE OF THE RECORDING (PARTICULARLY THE CYMBALS) TO SHAMBLES. IT IS GENERALLY ACKNOWLEDGED AMONG THE COLLECTORS THAT CD VERSIONS OF THIS ALBUM ARE OF NEAR-FRAUDULENT PROVENANCE AND SONIC AND ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES AND REPRESENT ONLY A PALE SHADOW OF THE ORIGINAL VINYL; . TO HEAR THIS GLORIOUS RECORDING THE WAY IT DESERVES TO BE HEARD, YOU ONLY HAVE ONE CHOICE: THE ORIGINAL VINYL -- AND YOU HAVE THE BEST-PRESERVED AND THE FINEST SPECIMEN EXTANT RIGHT HERE, IN FRONT OF YOU. WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? AN INVITATION FROM THE TRIBE?!?.

(►PLEASE SEE THE IMAGE OF THE COVER, LABEL OR BOTH, SHOWN BELOW)

(Note: this is a REAL image of the ACTUAL item you are bidding on. This is NOT a "recycled" image from our previous auction. What you see is what you’ll get. GUARANTEED!)

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People play music for many reasons: to express something personal, act cool, meet people, have fun-- maybe even to make money. Sometimes, people play music because they want to belong to a community. And once in a while, community-driven sounds intersect with a historic and political moment, and music takes on special significance.

Such was the case with the Tribe, a creative collective founded in Detroit in 1972 by trombonist Phil Ranelin and reed player Wendell Harrison and whose media arm included a label and quarterly magazine. The Tribe was born out of the African-American consciousness of the Civil Rights era, and its mission was to further the cause of black empowerment. Its magazine featured news and editorials on the issues of the day-- busing, government corruption, the dimming economic climate-- alongside discussion of music. The label issued the work of area musicians, some of whom made a living as session players for Motown (the company left Detroit for L.A. the year Tribe was founded) while simultaneously pursuing jazz. Everything about the Tribe was local, intent on reflecting and documenting the surrounding community. There was a lot of uncertainty in Detroit in the early 1970s-- the auto industry was declining, parts of the city had been destroyed during riots in the late 60s, and population was in the early stages of a long, dramatic decline. The Tribe was a group of people banding together, trying so sort through it all as it happened.

Over a five year period, these radical and often revolutionary artists took control of their own lives by running their own label, Tribe Records, where they proudly put forward the message "Music is the healing force of the Universe." Tribe recordings were a mixture of Funk and deep Jazz, featuring sessions by Wendell Harrison, Phil Ranelin, Marcus Belgrave, Doug Hammond and others. The impact - both artistic and political - these artists exerted on the subsequent generations of Jazz, Soul, Hip-Hop and Rap artists simply cannot be overestimated.

(EXCERPT FROM AN ONLINE ARTICLE IN PITCHFORK MAGAZINE)

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