Arts for Art founder and Vision Festival organizer Patricia Nicholson wrote a short tribute in an email shortly after Fasteau's passing:
"Kali Z. Fasteau was a strong independent voice in the FreeJazz movement. She was one of the few women who played a part of the musical revolution in the '70s performing on seminal recordings with her husband Rafael Garrett. After his passing she went on to perform and collaborate with many of the legends of this music."
In a Facebook post, ESP-Disk wrote:
"We are shocked and saddened by the sudden death of Kali Fasteau. She and then-husband Donald Rafael Garrett, as Sea Ensemble, released a profound album on ESP-Disk’ in 1974 and made two more great albums for Italian label Red Records in the same era. As a leader, she formed the label Flying Note to release her music, first on cassette tapes and then CDs, and was prolific. A superb saxophonist, pianist, and singer, she also played flutes, viola, cello, drums, and instruments from around the world."ESP-Disk made a recording from their 50th Anniversary Concert (11/17/0213) available for download via Bandcamp.

1 comments:
Kali was veeeery concerned about the situation with C.
All who knew her better, were more than surprised and shocked, when they noticed
her passing as she was a very healthy person in every regard just preparing her
home in upstate NY. On the day she died, she´d been very active ......
It´s very mysterious.
Kali was a true multiinstrumentalist, check her great recordings with her partner
Rafael Garrett called the Sea Ensemble and later recordings on her own label
Flying Note.
A very conscious and sensitive artist left us.
Jochen
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