Galt Macdermot – Ghetto Suite LP

Galt Macdermot – Ghetto Suite

Black Friday 2023 release.

Galt MacDermot (1928-2018) was an award-winning Canadian-American composer, pianist, writer of classical music and theatrical pieces. MacDermot also composed music for several film soundtracks, like the 1970 blaxploitation film 'Cotton Comes To Harlem', and released several jazz and funk albums on his own label Kilmarnock Records. He is best known for his work on the 1967 musical 'Hair' and 'Two Gentlemen Of Verona' from 1971. Working with jazz and soul musicians such as Bernard Purdie and Idris Muhammad, MacDermot created pieces that used African rhythms and in recent decades, his work has become popular with hip-hop musicians including Busta Rhymes, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Gang Starr, Action Bronson, Public Enemy, MF Doom, Madlib, J Dilla, Obie Trice, Naughty By Nature, Run DMC and Digable Planets.

The album 'Ghetto Suite', written in 1970 and released in 1972, is considered one of the most ground-breaking records ever issued on Galt MacDermot's Killmarnock label and consists out of a selection of songs and poems by Harlem/Bronx school children, set to Galt's music, and sung by vocalist Angela Ortega.

Here comes the very first vinyl reissue of this exceptional conceptual album, comes on 180 gram vinyl, strictly limited to 1000 copies, with obi strip and features the original artwork and extensive sleeve notes.

Tracklist:
A1 Do You Know 2:20
A2 Black Is Beautiful 2:17
A3 Slums 2:35
A4 Drugs 1:58
A5 The World Of Today 1:45
A6 Set Us Free 4:00

B1 This Old Heart Of Mine 2:15
B2 Cry Sound 1:56
B3 Everyday 3:18
B4 Black Is Beautiful 3:54
B5 Evil Hands 3:52
B6 Do You Know 2:22

Label: Tidal Waves Music
Released: 1972/2023