In 1970 assembled a team of filmmakers, technicians, and musicians to travel to Africa for the purpose of recording the music of the native pygmy tribes. Upon returning to Paris two years later, he created, a dark, eccentric effort fusing avant jazz sensibilities with African rhythms, ambient sound effects, and melodies rooted in American blues traditions. Cut with French and African players including guitarist, pianist, and percussionist, this is music with few precedents or followers, spanning from extraterrestrial dissonance to earthbound, street-legal funk. Pays little heed to conventional structure, assembling tracks like 'Afrika Freak Out' and 'Zombizar' from spare parts of indeterminate origins.
Said.serviceton thinks that the album Bozo the Clown refers to as the album. With the race track sounds is the same as that mentioned by 1009 above - 'Auto Jazz'. Wilen was at Monaco auto Grand Prix in 1967 and supposedly witnessed the crash and immolation of Lorenzo Bandini - who died from his burns. Car sounds were supposedly recorded at the same race by Wilen himself on a Nagra (don't know if that is 100% verifiable) - and then mixed into the very dynamic, propulsive, sometimes free musical recording - by way of a tribute to Bandini. Official full album title - 'Auto Jazz: Tragic Destiny of Lorenzo Bandini'. Francois Tusques is on there, Beb Guerin. I would love to have heard it without the cars on there, but I'm obviously missing the point.
Barney & Barney Marsh
Musically - it's strong.