The Mermaid's Purse: Live at Chatham College, 1976, by The Entourage Music & Theatre Ensemble

The Mermaid's Purse: Live at Chatham College, 1976

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1.	Days / Percussion Solo / King’s Birdcage 08:15	buy track
2.	Theme / Gypsies 04:30	buy track
3.	Neptune Rising / A Butterfly Impaled on a Dart (Solo for Viola) 07:12	buy track
4.	Giraffes We Ride Through Lightning Spilling 02:09	buy track
5.	Nature Spirits 06:01	buy track
6.	Silver Drum / Daleth 05:57	buy track
7.	Incantation for the Death of Self 02:19	buy track
8.	Euphoric Bells / Druid Dance 05:28	buy track
9.	Space Needle Suicide 03:58	buy track
10.	The Mermaid’s Purse 03:06	buy track
11.	Sleazy Sue 04:03	buy track
12.	Aperture 03:37	buy track
13.	Soft Fist / Cleopatra Music / Harbinger 12:12	buy track
14.	Outer Tiger / Days (Reprise) 06:02	buy track

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In 1976 the Entourage Music and Theatre Ensemble reached a creative zenith. The nomadic troupe had just released The Neptune Collection, its iconic second album for Moses Asch’s Folkways Records, and decided to present the music to audiences across the rust belt in its most miasmic, elemental form. Extended stretches of full-group improvisation mingled with folk-tune like melodies during these performances, which featured multiple dancers spontaneously interpreting the music, at times in elaborate costume. Like contemporaries Popol Vuh, Sandy Bull, and Don Cherry, Entourage fused jazz and strains of traditional music from around the world to form a singular, kaleidoscopic vision of musical liberation. The Mermaid’s Purse: Live at Chatham College, 1976 is the most complete, best-preserved audio recording of these performances, featuring music from across the Entourage catalog. It is being released for the first time 45 years after its recording, and features liner notes by lone surviving member Wall Matthews.

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released March 4, 2022

RECORDING DATA:

Percussion Solo (Track 1); Theme, Gypsies (Track 2); Daleth (Track 4); The Mermaid’s Purse (Track 10); Sleazy Sue (Track 11); Aperture (Track 12); Soft Fist, Cleopatra Music, Harbinger (Track 13); and Outer Tiger (Track 14) are unreleased songs.

Days, King’s Birdcage (Track 1); Neptune Rising (Track 3); Nature Spirits (Track 5); Incantation for the Death of Self (Track 7); Euphoric Bells, Druid Dance (Track 8); and Space Needle Suicide (Track 9) appear as studio version recordings on The Neptune Collection (1976).

A Butterfly Impaled on a Dart (Solo for Viola) (Track 3); Giraffes We Ride Through Lightning Spilling (Track 4); and Silver Drum (Track 6) appear as studio version recordings on Entourage (1973)

CREDITS:
Produced by Wall Matthews
Recorded in 1976 at Chatham College in Pittsburgh, PA
Mixed and mastered by Pete Reiniger
Annotated by Wall Matthews
Photographs courtesy of Wall Matthews
Executive producers: Daniel E. Sheehy and John Smith
Production manager: Fred Knittel
Editorial assistance by Carla Borden, Kate Harrington, and Mary Monseur
Art direction, design, and layout by Darryl Norsen

Special thanks: Wendy Matthews, Laurie Cameron, Ara Fitzgerald, Martha Moore, Martha Myers, Marsha White, Bob Brown, Josh Rosenthal, John Smith, Jonathan Williger, and Fred Knittel.

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