Rashied Ali and Frank Lowe: Duo Exchange, Complete Sessions (Survival Records, 2020)

From the One-Sheet:

“Duo Exchange is the flagship release of Rashied Ali’s Survival Records. When the record was made, Survival still belonged jointly to Ali and Frank Lowe, and the recording sessions done at Marzette Watts’s studio were the maiden voyage for their partnership. With the release of the record in 1973, Ali and his family and Frank Lowe and his family all became executives and clerks helping to get the word out.

Frank Lowe and Rashied Ali went into studio to capture the vehemence bursting forth nightly in the lofts. […] This[2020] release not only restores those sections of the original record (inexplicably excised from early CD releases) but expands it with fascinating outtake versions that rephrase the familiar tracks.

The entire project benefits from a new mix of the original 4-channel tapes: You hear the pristine bite of that raw energy for the classic master takes, the sections that didn’t fit on the record, and multiple unissued alternative versions of both.”

*These are our last copies. Don’t sleep.