Adele Sebastian

Pure Pleasure audiophile reissue of jazz flutist & singer's only album from 1981, sounding like golden era Pharoah Sanders, John or Alice Coltrane.

Adele Sebastian was an Afro American jazz flutist and singer, active from the early 70s (when she was still a teenager) until her untimely death at the age of 27 (!) in 1983 from a kidney failure. In fact she had been depending on monthly dialysis to stay alive for years. She lived through and for the music and you can hear it on her only solo album “Desert Fairy Princess” which was first issued in 1981. The mostly acoustic instrumentation brings a very natural and therefore rather retrospective sound considering the year the album was recorded.

Adele perfectly mixes classic American vocal jazz elements with playful and more free passages, Latin music and tribal African sounds in the epic rhythm oriented “Man From Tanganyika” and kicks off the title track with a mystical “Allahu akbar“ chant which turns more and more psychedelic, reminiscent of Pharoah Sanders' early works.

Highly recommended!