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I guess it's like everything else with Pygmy records: they have their "Blanton - Webster Years".They have their golden moments and their less golden ones. By the '90s, when this disc was recorded, Pygmy records had served as the icing on so many cakes (please read Steven Feld's brilliant "Pygmy POP. A Genealogy of Schizophonic Mimesis"). And the Ocora label, particularly, had made Ethnographic Records into a yummy and dependable product. So, I don't know the numbers - but at least a couple of thousand people were waiting for new Pygmy Product with baited breath. And here it is - is it the "We Want Miles" of Pygmy discs?
I can't go play - by - play; there are no outstanding tracks. But there are no bad ones, either. If you have a sweetheart who likes Pygmy discs, you can turn the lights down low, and you've got over an hour of Pygmy Pleasure. If you're still conscious by that point, tracks 16 and 17 are pretty spooky and cool, if nowhere nearly as inventive as tracks on earlier Aka recordings.
