Pygmy Unit has been played on NTS shows including Dactylian & Palo Santo Discos, with Coke first played on 6 August 2024.

The Pygmy Unit were a loose collective residing in the Bay Area in Northern California and involving the principal members of Frank Albright, Darrel De Vore, Marvin Kirkland and Terry Wilson. The "Signals From Earth" LP issued in 1974 consisted of improvised "ethno-jazz" but not in a fusion sense…more "anthro" than "ethno" really, referring to themselves as "future primitive" before the term had anything to do with piercings or turntables. Released in a plain white cardstock jacket with nice small paper design pasted on, sides were thematically split into "Primitive" and "Traditional Space", and the album kicks off with a "cover" of the Balinese ketjak/Monkey Chant modified for western culture as "Coke Chant" and continues on through the rain forest with flute and moog doodles backed by tribal percussion, a bit of Sun Ra sounding cosmic shuffle . A couple of inserts with typical for the time liner notes on each song (example: "structured according to Dragonfly motions in warm summer winds") including a thank you to W. Conger Beasley JR who provided the grant to make the album possible (appearantly not enough to actually get printed covers, but hey, you don't look a gift horse in the pocketbook). 1000 copies were pressed, makes it kinda hard to believe it doesn't turn up more often.

Players are Frank Albright - flute, soprano sax; Darrel De Vore - vocals, flutes, bass, percussion, piano; Marvin Kirkland - flute, percussion; Terry Wilson - percussion; John Celona - soprano sax, moog, percussion, Ron Grunn - bassoon, flute; Jim Pepper - tenor sax