Vito Ricci with Rashied Ali and Byard Lancaster - Postones LP
$54.98
Label: De Occulta
Limited to 250 copies, one-time pressing.
Deluxe tip-on gatefold sleeve with gold foil and glossy UV-varnish; transparent outer sleeve with typography silkscreened in white on clear acetate.
Postones reveals an unexpected chapter in Vito Ricci’s work, capturing early 1980s collaborations with free jazz visionaries Rashied Ali and Byard Lancaster. Originally released in 1984 as a near-impossible-to-find cassette, these recordings document a raw intersection of improvisation, performance, and experimental composition within downtown New York’s fertile underground.
Side A features a live recording from St. Mark’s Church, where Lancaster’s lyrical lines drift between restraint and intensity, met by Ricci’s fractured percussion and synth textures. Side B moves into hypnotic, percussion-driven pieces created with Ali for dance and theater works: minimal, physical, and deeply immediate.
Long unavailable and largely unheard, Postones returns as more than an archival reissue, it’s a crucial fragment of a wider, overlooked history.