 The Mark Harvey Group
 A Rite for All Souls
 Review by Gary Hill

As you might gather from the cover of this set, it was recorded live in concert in 1971. It’s essentially one long performance piece, but it is divided into separate tracks across two CDs here. This music is very much connected to the Rock in Opposition movement. It is all jazz related, but it’s quite freeform and strange. There are long sections of spoken word, too. This kind of stuff isn’t all that well suited for track by track review, but that’s what we do here at MSJ. Let’s just say overall that this is at times mellower and at times louder and more intense. It’s ever changing and largely what you might call strange.
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