Re-Creation Of The Gods

Rufus Harley | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 10, 2009)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Transparency
• ASIN: B000ERU3NI
• In-Print Editions: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #272,620 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The Crack

2. The Re-Creation of the Gods

3. Nobody Knows the Trouble Us People Done Seen

4. This Little Light of Mine

5. Hypothesis

6. Gods and Goddesses

7. Etymology

Editorial Reviews

First time on CD for this legendary funk/jazz/old school Bagpipe-lead-over-hot-band album from 1972. Rufus was a saxaphone player who also picked up the bagpipes for a few excellent 60's albums for Atlantic Records, and although those albums are great, this 1972 independent album is a real mind blower! The original LP lists on E-Bay for $150, and this CD adds a 10 minute track not even on that album! Also reprints all the original ultra-spiritual liner notes in an 8 page booklet, with superior graphics. 2006 was the year of resurrection for Rufus: besides several reissue projects for Transparency (including his guest appearance on the Sun Ra DVD Volume 4), he is being reissued on individual CDs in France, and an east coast label is compiling all of his Atlantic-era albums into a box set!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not your Momma's tartan!, November 2, 2006

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Holly Reynolds - See all my reviews
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The world lost a great one this year with the passing of Rufus Harley. He took his bagpipe to the world of Jazz and made it work! Oh if only it could always be that "when worlds collide" the result is something as transcendent.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars amazing, April 6, 2009

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Bill Your 'Free Form FM Handi Cyber Print DJ ... (Mahwah, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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I don't know who this guy was or where he came from, but he is brillant. Who would think of mixing bagpipes with 70s Jimmy Smith/Larry Young style organ.

Well, Harley did, and the results are phonomanal. Part of the hook here is that he is not using bagpipes the way you would normally hear them. Harley somehow makes these things take on a droney, middle eastern tone. He extends a few notes and draws them out, and so the pipes work as ambience.

When I was a kid, my dad was in a pipe and drums band, and I was forced to listen to a lot of traditional bagpipes music. Freudian or not, I HATE the bagpipes.

But in this context, their use is just increadible. Rufus Harley is thinking so outside the box here--I mean, who the hell would want to try this-that it makes for outstanding and facinating music

3.0 out of 5 stars Truly bizarre, December 7, 2008

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Carl A. Maniscalco "Gyrogeerloose" (San Diego, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Re-Creation Of The Gods (Audio CD)

Trust me on this--you ain't ever heard anything else like "Re-Creation of the Gods." You may not ever want to, either. Even as a fan of both jazz and the pipes, it took me several (widely-spaced) listening sessions to get through this disc all the way and, unfortunately, the audio quality did not help at all. This is one of the worst-produced discs since the early days of CDs.

As for the music, well, you're either going to love it or wish to god for your fifteen bucks back; it's hard to say which. This certainly is not a CD for someone without a wide-open musical mind. I would place myself in that category but , still, I don't find myself spinning this disc very often.

If you're the daring type, you might give it a try. Otherwise, it's not the choice for you.