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PANGAEA was the last album Miles Davis made before his 5 year retirement.
Recorded live at Osaka Festival Hall, Osaka, Japan on February 1, 1975. Includes liner notes by Kevin Whitehead.
The companion set to AGARTHA, PANGAEA presents the Davis band in that evening's concert performance at Osaka Festival Hall on February 1, 1975. The difference in moods is readily apparent, as the band comes out on fire--particularly the trumpeter, who was in a more reticent mood during the afternoon's festivities.
With PANGAEA Miles peeks out from the eye of an electronic hurricane to impart the darker side of his soul. Davis was on the verge of a total mental and physical collapse when this concert was recorded, suffering from a variety of degenerative physical ailments, in the throes of a cocaine haze, glaring out at the world from behind the protective darkness of his shades, amidst the grungy blare of his Afro-blue psychobabble.
Whether these sounds derive from Davis' malaise or occur in spite of it, it's amusing to recall that this dangerous, relentlessly edgy music was widely held to be proof of Miles' commercial aspirations. Yet only in recent years did Ornette Coleman & Prime Time, The Black Rock Coalition, Living Colour and John Zorn's Naked City approximate PANGAEA's mysterious power. On side one, some fierce acid funk gives way to an aquatic percussive melange; likewise, side two's lyrical folk themes (as epitomized by Sonny Fortune's lovely flute and Miles' coy wah-wah trumpet) are transformed into a serene, mysterious blues of surprising delicacy. Throughout PANGAEA, guitarist Pete Cosey plays with heroic freedom and epic ferocity over the ritualistic roar of drummer Al Foster, bassist Michael Henderson, and percussionist Mtume.
Personnel: Miles Davis (trumpet, organ); Sonny Fortune (soprano & alto saxophones, flute); Pete Cosey (synthesizer, electric guitar, percussion); Reggie Lucas (electric guitar); Michael Henderson (electric bass); Al Foster (drums); Mtume (congas, water drums, rhythm box, percussion).
Personnel: Miles Davis (trumpet, organ); Pete Cosey (guitar, synthesizer, percussion); Reggie Lucas (guitar); Sonny Fortune (flute, soprano saxophone, alto saxophone); Michael Henderson (bass guitar); Mtume (drums, congas, percussion); Al Foster (drums); James "Mtume" Forman (congas, percussion).
Liner Note Author: Kevin Whitehead.
Recording information: Osaka Festival Hall, Osaka, Japan (02/01/1975).
Director: Keiichi Nakamura. Pangaea Music | Category | Rock/Pop Albums, Jazz CDs, Jazz Instrument, Live Performances, Trumpet | | Label | Columbia | | Orig Year | 1975 | | All Time Sales Rank |  12456  | | CD Universe Part number | 1086825 | | Catalog number | 46115 | | Discs | 2 | | Release Date | Apr 20, 1990 | | Studio/Live | Live | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Producer | Teo Macero | | Engineer | Tomoo Suzuki | | Recording Time | 88 minutes | | Personnel | Miles Davis - trumpet, organ
Reggie Lucas - electric guitar
Pete Cosey - synthesizer, electric guitar, percussion
Also: Michael Henderson, Al Foster, Mtume, Sonny Fortune |
Miles Davis Pangaea Songs Pangaea Music Review Average Rating: (5 out of 5 stars)  best liveband album
im studyin this kind of music since it was new,i play trumpet n guitar check this its hotfunk blackpower
Submitted by esteban (sardinia)
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40 minutes of straight music that just gets better after every minute. I've haven't heard much Miles Davis, so i was surprised to ear a funky electric guitar backing him. All the musicians on this album are fantastic. Each doing there own thing at a frenetic pace. But it all comes together like they planned every note. I put this album on repeat at work and never got so much work done in one day. A+
Submitted by sdsamna (Chicago, Il)
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this is probably my favorite miles album. (one of my favorite records, ever: dense, monsterous, angry and beautiful.
pangaea kicks. flat out. this aint jazz or rock or funk but pissed-off miles davis hijacking an unholy lovechild of jimi hendrix and james brown.
the first fifteen minutes of disc 1 never, ever, (ever) fail to take my breath away and make the hairs on my arms stand up. al foster kicks it off (and keeps it up throughout) with furious drumwork. the twin guitars growl and roar, michael henderson's basslines ought to be reqiured listening for anyone who even thinks about playing a fender bass.
this album was recorded live in japan, 1975, year of my birth. humbling. i was an infant and miles was playing his soul in japan. fractured hips, chronic leg pain and he kicked, flat out.
buy this record. listen and awe.
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