Adele Sebastian Desert Fairy Princess (180g Import Vinyl LP)

180g Vinyl LP Reissue Remastered by Ray Staff at Air Mastering, Lyndhurst Hall, London and Pressed at Pallas in Germany

Adele Sebastian was an Afro American jazz flutist and singer, active from the early '70s (when she was still a teenager) until her untimely death at the age of 27. She lived through and for the music and you can hear it on her only solo album Desert Fairy Princess which was first issued in 1981. The mostly acoustic instrumentation brings a very natural and therefore rather retrospective sound  hereconsidering the year the album was recorded. Adele and her band pull it off right from the start as if it had been 1966 and it was time for a revolution to shake the dust from the old time jazz.

In a perfect way she mixes classic American vocal jazz elements with playful and more free passages, Latin music and tribal African sounds in the lengthy and quite rhythm oriented "Man From Tanganyika" and makes the title track start with a mystical "Allahu akbar" chant while it turns more and more into a dark and gloomy song with something like a psychedelic edge reminiscent of Pharoah Sanders on his early works. Wild drum rhythms and percussion with tons of bells and chimes weave a thick groove carpet and conjure a magical atmosphere throughout. Those jazz aficionados who love the mid '60s John Coltrane, his sidekick Pharoah Sanders and Alice Coltrane will go crazy for this album!

Remastered by Ray Staff at Air Mastering, Lyndhurst Hall, London and pressed at Pallas in Germany, this 180g vinyl LP reissue from Pure Pleasure sounds better than the original pressing!

Musicians:
Adele Sebastian, flute & vocals
Bobby West, piano
Roberto Miranda, bass
Billy Higgins, drums
Rickey Kelley, marimba
"Daoude" Woods, percussion