{"id":19403,"date":"2022-10-25T11:02:23","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T10:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=19403"},"modified":"2022-10-25T11:02:23","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T10:02:23","slug":"idris-ackamoor-the-pyramids-celebrate-50th-anniversary-with-two-special-releases-and-string-of-live-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=19403","title":{"rendered":"Idris Ackamoor &#038; The Pyramids celebrate 50th anniversary with two special releases and string of live shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19449\" src=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Idris-Ackamoor-The-Pyramids.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Idris-Ackamoor-The-Pyramids.jpg 700w, https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Idris-Ackamoor-The-Pyramids-300x120.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In celebration of <a href=\"https:\/\/idrisackamoor.bandcamp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Idris Ackamoor &amp; The Pyramids<\/a>&#8216; epic 50th anniversary, <a href=\"https:\/\/strut.k7store.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Strut Records<\/a> has two special releases in store. On November 4th the label is releasing <em>Idrissa\u2019s Dream<\/em>, a double 12&#8243; LP with Ackamoor\u2019s debut avant-garde \/ Afro-jazz recordings with The Collective. A live concert, it is the only professional recording of The Collective from a performance in Ohio in 1971 .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The second release is <em>The Complete 1970s Recordings<\/em>, a boxset featuring the Afrofuturistic jazz mavericks&#8217; three seminal 1970s albums. The boxset comes in vinyl format with 3 discs which are also available separately.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For a sublime and supreme taster, listen to first &#8216;Black Queen&#8217;, lifted from <em>Idrissa&#8217;s Dream<\/em>.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PequLijExeU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In other good news, longtime fans or new converts in The Netherlands, Germany and Italy will get the chance to experience Idris Ackamoor &amp; the Pyramids&#8217; intergalactic performance this November. The run of dates includes a performance and residency at <a href=\"https:\/\/leguesswho.com\/lineup\/idris-ackamoor-the-pyramids-50th-anniversary-celebration\">Le Guess Who?<\/a> festival, which we wouldn\u2019t miss for the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In celebration of Idris Ackamoor &amp; The Pyramids&#8216; epic 50th anniversary, Strut Records has two special releases in store. On November 4th the label is releasing Idrissa\u2019s Dream, a double 12&#8243; LP with Ackamoor\u2019s debut avant-garde \/ Afro-jazz recordings with The Collective. A live concert, it is the only professional recording of The Collective from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2800,1614],"class_list":["post-19403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-idris-ackamoor","tag-idris-ackamoor-the-pyramids"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19403"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19454,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19403\/revisions\/19454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}