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Albert Ayler: The Holy Ghost

Brian Case, New Musical Express, 6 July 1974

Gothic horror, funeral processions, The Exorcist ten years early on a crazed tenor. The critics loathed it. Audiences stayed away in droves. ALBERT AYLER. Have our ears caught up with him yet...?

Total word count of piece: 1880

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