The Thornhill Sound, by The Oakland Elementary School Arkestra

The Thornhill Sound

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	1.	Ladies And Gentlemen 00:31
	2.	We Travel The Spaceways (with Marshall Allen) 03:19
	3.	Bambi Meets Godzilla 02:25
	4.	Monday Mourning 02:13
	5.	Children's Lullaby 00:22
	6.	Ripples 01:15
	7.	The World Expanding 01:06
	8.	Chunkle 01:17
	9.	Jumbled Up Notes 00:29
	10.	Mr. Porter The Heavy 03:10
	11.	The Twilight Zone 03:28
	12.	Cheetah Race 01:48
	13.	The Abyss 02:06
	14.	Introduction To Love 04:03
	15.	Love In Outer Space (with Dave Slusser & Terry Riley) 05:09
	16.	Prepared Instrument Discourse (with Fred Frith) 00:38
	17.	Excuse Me, Ms. Steigerwald (with Fred Frith) 03:06
	18.	Saga Of Padani (with Terry Riley) 04:55
	19.	Groove (with Marshall Allen) 08:45
	20.	Evening Mist (with Marshall Allen) 02:47
	21.	Ebube Symphony #1 01:02
	22.	Out The Windoor (with Terry Riley) 01:50
	23.	The One Minute And Six Second Fantasy (with Dave Gordon) 01:05
	24.	Bourgeois Boogie 05:10
	25.	Swimming In A Pool Of Chocolate 02:18
	26.	Tailgaters' Lullaby (with Tyrone Hill) 02:13
	27.	Manufacturing Of Humidifiers 02:47
	28.	On The Road 01:52
	29.	C Jam Blues 02:12

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Unless you attended elementary school in Oakland, California in 1997, you probably had no idea that this meeting of elementary school music students and improvisational jazz luminaries existed.

Working within and beyond the vision of elementary school music teacher Randy Porter, The Thornhill Sound presents the odyssey of 4th, 5th & 6th grade students from novice musicians into an avant garde ensemble. The extremely rare, once cassette only, The Thornhill Sound features 29 mini opuses of imprecise, meditative, ethereal soundclouds of wonder and joy, the children were joined by such luminaries as Terry Riley, Fred Frith, Dave Slusser, and Dave Gordon, Tyrone Hill, & Marshall Allen of the Sun Ra Arkestra! Among these amazing interplanetary improv pieces are a few Sun Ra covers. Highlights of this cassette combined with the Big Music, Little Musicians recordings went on to form The Saga Of Padani.

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released August 31, 2018

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