Andrew Cyrille, Jeanne Lee, Jimmy Lyons – Nuba (Black Saint, 1979)

Andrew Cyrille (d, perc); Jeanne Lee (vo, poetry); Jimmy Lyons (as)

Recorded in June 1979

Cyrille, Lee, and Lyons conjure evocative sound portraits.  This music doesn't follow any traditional form; instead, it evolves organically through rhythms, textures, sounds, poetry, like a sonic collage.  

You could compare this music to avant-garde classics like Marion Brown's Afternoon of a Georgia Faun and Julius Hemphill's Dogon A.D., works that strongly evoke a sense of place, ambient sounds, and the vibratory hum of existence.