60 Years celebrates six decades of of pianist and composer Horace Tapscotts radical and uplifting musical and social vision. Digging deep into the Arkestras archives the album gathers breath-taking unreleased material including previously unheard compositions from every stage of the bands development - from Tapscotts earliest iterations of the group recording at home in 1961 to the current incarnation of the band led by the new generation of young musicians. Remastered from archival sources by the Arkestras longstanding engineer Wayne Peet 60 Years is presented by The Village a label operated by members of the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra. With archival photographs documenting the Arkestras history the album arrives with liner notes featuring track-by-track commentary from Arkestra members past and present. In the words of Mekala Session This release is the culmination of 60 years of Black history through sound. South Centrals musical colossus is still very much awake and 60 Years reveals the secrets of the Ark.