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NTS Guide to: ESP-Disk - The Early Years
NTS Guide to: ESP-Disk - The Early Years
06.02.24 · New York

NTS Guide to: ESP-Disk - The Early Years

Existing at the intersection of free jazz, acid folk, spoken word and avant garage rock, ESP-Disk opened for business in New York City at the zenith of 60's counter culture.

The label's first release was an Esperanto album, giving it the name ESP-Disk, and then released a number of free jazz albums that we would now consider classics. It soon came to champion other similarly less-commercial genres, always giving free reign to the artists.

This Guide To includes music from Sun Ra, Albert Ayler, William Burroughs, The Fugs and more.

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Tracklist

  • 0:20:22
    Pearls Before Swine
    Translucent Carriages
  • 0:24:20
    Ed Askew
    Ask The Unicorn
  • 0:29:24
    Erica
    To Leonard From The Hospital
  • Dr. Timothy Leary
    Epilogue (Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out)
  • Gilbert Shelton Ensemble
    If I Was A Hell's Angel
  • The Levitts
    The Saints Off My City Are Children
  • Jerry Moore
    Life Is A Constant Journey Home
  • Emerson's Old Timey Custard Suckin' Band
    Vestibule Billy
  • The Fugs
    Kill For Peace
  • Cromagnon
    First World Of Bronze
  • The Fugs
    C.I.A. Man
  • The Godz
    Lay In The Sun
  • William Burroughs
    Bradley The Buyer
  • The New York Art Quartet
    Sweet--Black Dada Nihilismus
  • The Marion Brown Quartet
    Fortunato
  • Pharaoh Sanders
    Bethera
  • The Velvet Underground
    Noise
  • Har-You Percussion Group
    Feed Me Good
  • Nedly Elstak Trio + Voice
    Love You So
  • Sun Ra
    Next Stop Mars
  • Alan Sondheim / Ritual All 770
    The Songs Part 2
  • Sonny Simmons
    A Distant Voice
  • Karel Velebny, SHQ
    The Uhu Sleeps Only During The Day
  • Sun Ra & His Myth Science Arkestra
    We Travel The Space Ways
  • Patty Waters
    Song Of Clifford
  • Paul Bley
    Closer
  • Henry Grimes Trio
    For Django
  • Tufi Kupferberg And Viki Pollon With Peter Rawson On Guitar
    Love And Ashes
  • Bob James Trio
    Explosions
  • Sun Ra
    The Cosmos
  • Lowell Davidson Trio
    L
  • Andy Warhol
    Silence
  • Byron Allen Trio
    Three Steps In The Right Direction
  • Albert Ayler Trio
    Spirits