Mike Reed - The Separatist Party LP DVD where the project’s gravitational pull

where the project’s gravitational pull gained strength

fusing well played

Recorded mixed and mastered in Fats Beat Studio

This first reissue from the D-Vine Spirituals Recordings (Memphis circa late '60s / early '70s) showcases King

and his cousin Yuya Yamazaki on drums and chorus

Mike Reed - The Separatist Party LP DVD where the project’s gravitational pullLong before the pandemic, Reed had been thinking about isolation, haunted by a 2015 story in The New York Times about the death of a resident named George Bell, a hoarder who passed away at home, his body undiscovered for nearly a week. In January 2022, Reed gathered a group of some of the most creative figures in Chicagos experimental and improvised music community to put sound to those thoughts of forced seclusion: cornetist Ben LaMar Gay, poet and