The Pyramids came together in the 1970s at Antioch College, Ohio, as part of Cecil Taylor’s Black Music Ensemble. They travelled across Africa in the early 70s, playing with local musicians and adding new instruments to their ensemble, before returning to the US and taking root in San Francisco in the middle part of the decade. The group broke up in 1977 but have reformed under the guidance of Ackamoor several times, and the current incarnation of the group, with longterm bassist Kimathi Asante, have released a new album We Be All Africans on Strut. A feature about the group by Geeta Dayal is in The Wire 389, and subscribers to The Wire can read that, and hundreds of other reviews, articles and features, in our online archive.