FREEDOM'S CHILDREN with MALOMBO JAZZ MAKERS - "Ourang-Outang I"

From the album FREEDOM'S CHILDREN with MALOMBO JAZZ MAKERS - Ourang-Outang (1971) DIGITAL ALBUM: https://sharp-flat.bandcamp.com/album... The epic 1971 collaboration of Freedom's Children with Malombo Jazz Makers recorded in the Valley of a Thousand Hills at a music retreat in preparation for 3rd Ear's Tribal Blues concerts. The tapes were edited and distilled onto an album-length reel shaped by Ramsay Mackay's vision of an allegorical South African rock opera entitled Ourang-Outang. The recording (stored in a box covered with annotations and accompanied by a formulated trackless) provided an outline of the concept, its catchy main theme and some outstanding jamming. As fate would have it though, after the live shows the idea was postponed and eventually abandoned. The Ourang-Outang theme took on a life of its own through the 1970s via a trail of cover versions by Joburg Hawk, Kenny Henson's Harambee, Finch & Henson, Margaret Singana and even disco divas Joy of "Paradise Road" fame. As for the original Ourang-Outang tape, it was archived for almost 50 years but not completely forgotten. The ensemble's first take of "Ourang-Outing" is presented here in it's raw original form.