Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids

I'm only two tracks into the new album—Afro Futuristic Dreams—and prob too busy to be starting a new thread, but this one is overdue imo. I've absolutely loved every one of Ackamoor's 21st c. albums (the 70s stuff is all fantastic too of course; shout-out Strut for doing great work w/his catalogue): a truly remarkable, though not remarked upon enough!, creative rebirth/reappearance

In lieu of any developed thoughts on this new album yet (off the cuff: lots of lovely string-based instruments, including afro rock guitar on the opener, mix feels denser than the last one), I really enjoyed this piece: https://thequietus.com/articles/33368-idris-ackamoor-and-the-pyramids-favourite-albums-bakers-dozen

nice didn't realize there was a new album. "warrior dance" is one of my favorite songs ever

Thanks for starting this thread! Waiting for the new one to get here tomorrow but yeah, I've really enjoyed all of the "reunion era" albums tremendously.

it just came out today (xp to vc)! An Angel Fell was my intro to them and yeah Warrior Dance is awesome. I love all the violin on the newer albums, it really gives them a signature sound

The box set of the 70s lps was pretty great though I haven't listened to it in a while. My brother had asked for a copy one year and I wound up getting one for myself.
Haven't caught up with more recent stuff

found this a while back though
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLfekGPwavs

Yeah, I wrote a little bit about the new record in my Stereogum column:

Saxophonist Idris Ackamoor has been leading the Pyramids since the early 1970s, when he was inspired by studying with Cecil Taylor at Antioch College in Ohio. They released four albums before breaking up toward the end of that decade, then reunited more than 40 years later after their back catalog was discovered by cratediggers. In addition to his own sax, organ, and keytar, the current lineup features Margaux Simmons on flute, Sandra Poindexter on violin, and Bobby Cobb on guitar, with production by drummer Malcolm Catto of the Heliocentrics and other projects. Their music has always been a unique blend of free jazz, traditional African rhythms and melodies (they lived, worked and studied in Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, Senegal, Morocco and Ethiopia early on), and funk, with a strong element of Sun Ra-esque Afrofuturism. Some tracks on Afro Futuristic Dreams also have a heavy reggae influence, a newer element in the group’s sound but a welcome one. “Thank You God” is a 13-minute track with somewhat hippie-ish, come-join-our-cult lyrics (“We are a family/ Spinning through the galaxy/ Sailing on Spaceship Earth/ Sharing collective destiny”) and lengthy, Pharoah Sanders-ish sax solos from Ackamoor, all laid over a vamping West African groove showcasing Cobb’s guitar. (From Afro Futuristic Dreams, out 9/22 via Strut.)

thanks unperson, and yeah Sandra Poindexter: she rules

saw them in Brooklyn about a week ago, great show. Bobby Cobb doing some really nice stuff on guitar. love that the couple with an Afro-Futurist band has a daughter with a PhD in astronomy.

Based on the cover of King of Kings, it looks like The Pyramids were innovators in Spiritual Boot Jazz...