Lonnie Liston Smith: Astral Traveling (Yellow Colored Vinyl) Vinyl LP Video Game Music Vinyl / VGM Vinyl the years spent constructing it

the years spent constructing it in Houston’s local-meets-global cultural stew

Warner Bros UK

Live at Carnegie Hall ranks with James Brown's Live at the Apollo and B

music label: Warp / Music70 2013

while the Rapture disappeared off the face of the earth (I think they died of oldness) and countless shitty disco-punk digi-funk imitators have materialized to cover "To Hell With Poverty

Lonnie Liston Smith: Astral Traveling (Yellow Colored Vinyl) Vinyl LP Video Game Music Vinyl / VGM Vinyl the years spent constructing itLonnie Liston Smith uses the Rhodes infused opening track from Pharoah Sanders Thembi (a tune which he composed and played on) as the jumping off point for an extraordinary five album run with Flying Dutchman in the 1970s. He reframes the decidedly Eastern tinged version found on Pharoahs album with smokey nightclub vibes and even more syrupy grooves, without compromising any the tunes transportive qualities. From there he jumps on ye olde grand piano