What sounds like 'Black Woman' by Sonny Sharrock?

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I'm thinking about the song, specifically, but also the rest of the record. Someone elsewhere said Boredoms' 'Seadrum', which seems a decent starting point, but I think you can all do better.

Interested parties see also:

sonny sharrock, including but NOT limited to "Ask the Ages"

― danski (danski), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 18:47 (twenty years ago)

what about it do you like? the guitar? the freejazz w/vocals?

― team jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 18:51 (twenty years ago)

you should check out yoko ono!

― wangdangsweetpentangle (teenagequiet), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 18:54 (twenty years ago)

xpost - here are some more skronky women

the second half of Patty Water's "Siings"
Yoko Ono "Plastic Ono Band"

― team jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 18:54 (twenty years ago)

Eddie Gale - "Black Rhythm Happening" & "Ghetto Music"

― team jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 18:55 (twenty years ago)

pharoah sanders' izipho zam if you don't mind a sazamaphone or two taking the place of linda sharrock

― wangdangsweetpentangle (teenagequiet), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 18:59 (twenty years ago)

i too was gonna suggest some sanders

― team jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 19:00 (twenty years ago)

Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre "Humility In The Light Of Creator"

― team jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 19:01 (twenty years ago)

The guitar, the jazz, the vocals, the skronk, the everything.

'Plastic Ono Band' and 'Fly' are goodies f'sure. I swiped 'Izipho Zam' from here a week or so ago and have been enjoying it since.

I know no Eddie Gale.

― danski (danski), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 19:02 (twenty years ago)

you should check him out, those two albums jaxon mentioned are really really really good

― wangdangsweetpentangle (teenagequiet), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 19:05 (twenty years ago)

black woman is grebt. it's the only sharrock i know, really. the guitar!!!!

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 19:07 (twenty years ago)

also this may not be exactly what you're askin for but joe mcphee's "nation time" and luther thomas's "funky donkey" are totally totally incredibly awesome and in a not-unrelated vein (voxless but instrumentally funky and free ft/GRRRRRRREAT guitar)

― wangdangsweetpentangle (teenagequiet), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 19:09 (twenty years ago)

Eddie Gale's two albums are two of my favorite jazz albums. they're on late 60s bluenote. huge chorus. free jazz, folk, chanting.

and the covers are fucking rediculous.

http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/g/gale_eddie~_blackrhyt_101b.jpg http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/g/gale_eddie~_ghettomus_101b.jpg

― team jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 19:18 (twenty years ago)

oh, and he played on Sun Ra's "Lanquidity"

― team jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 19:18 (twenty years ago)

if you like the guitar tone on black woman, get more sharrock stuff, and also listen to some sun city girls albums.

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 19:20 (twenty years ago)

yeah that's right! "esoterica of abyssinia" might as well be a short comeback-era sharrock song

― wangdangsweetpentangle (teenagequiet), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 19:25 (twenty years ago)

one can never have enough SCG albums, it's true...

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 19:30 (twenty years ago)

ten years pass...

Versions of tracks from here on the new Real Gone 2cd of Herbie Mann Live at Whiskey A Go Go I think. Title track and Portrait of ? In 3 Colours All Black both with Linda on vocals. But I think band is different since it's the Quintet Herbie Mann was playing live with at the time.

Monkey Pockie Boo is pretty good too. Oddly doesn't seem to have come up in thread before.

― Stevolende, Saturday, 9 April 2016 20:04 (nine years ago)

Monkey Pockie Boo is brilliant, if inevitably a slight notch below Black Woman. But it's really a shame that Sonny didn't make more records with Milford Graves -- for me, he's what elevates Black Woman over all other Sharrock releases.

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 9 April 2016 20:12 (nine years ago)

Leave us not forget Sonny & Linda & co. live on WKCR, 3-21-74---host sounds a little under the weather at first, maybe spring pollen, but this prob cleaned out her sinuses: https://archive.org/details/SonnyAndLindaSharrock

― dow, Saturday, 9 April 2016 21:34 (nine years ago)

Several options, the one I checked is vbr mp3 (works).

― dow, Saturday, 9 April 2016 21:38 (nine years ago)

three weeks pass...

i heard a track from linda's new one, gods, on the radio today and it was amazing. has anyone heard the whole thing? it's kinda pricey but it sounded really great

― adam, Tuesday, 3 May 2016 14:02 (nine years ago)

Says limited edition; one copy left on Amazon! But they've also got a bunch of others I hadn't heard of; thanks for getting me to check.

― dow, Tuesday, 3 May 2016 14:38 (nine years ago)

snagged a sealed copy off discogs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ocN5sanb4I

― adam, Tuesday, 3 May 2016 14:55 (nine years ago)

There's also a terrific new Linda Sharrock 2CD on Improvised Beings - large studio session in Paris and live quartet in Sheffield pub.

― Poor.Old.Tired.Horse. (Stew), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 16:37 (nine years ago)

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