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Artist: Lonnie Liston Smith |Label: BGP |Format: LP |Genre: Jazz | Album Condition: New | Jacket Condition: Sealed
Lonnie Liston Smith
Expansions
BGP XXQLP145 – import 180g LP – 50th Anniversary Audiophile Edition in a thick gatefold jacket – AAA mastered
Look at it! Theres a guy in a Muslim skull cap and glasses, singing about space and love wicked! Blows your mind! Norman Jay
Lonnie Liston Smith’s “Expansions” is one of the most influential records ever to have been released with its sound ricocheting through many different music scenes. It is one of dance music’s fundamental building blocks, and an anthem to UK clubland.
Now for its 50th Anniversary we are celebrating that influence by an ultra-high quality deluxe vinyl edition of the album. Using the original album master tape we decamped to Frank Merritt’s East London studio, the Carvery, for an all Analogue cut of the album – it has never sounded better!
We have housed this in a tip-on a laminated gatefold sleeve, which has allows Jack Martin’s original painting of Lonnie to shine as never before. We have also a fully illustrated sleeve note by Frank Tope, telling the story of how the record took its journey through the universe from its spiritual jazz route to become a clubland anthem. This story is told with help from Gilles Peterson, Norman Jay and more.
The album as a whole is essential, going beyond the dance-ability of the title track, through its seven tracks to be one of the great jazz albums of the 70s. Produced by Lonnie and Bob Thiele (producer of Gil Scott-Heron’s Pieces Of A Man and John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme) it should be in every record collection.
For its 50th Anniversary why not make it this edition
Cut in an all-analogue chain by Frank Merritt at the Carvery, London and pressed on 180g vinyl
Contains;
Expansions
Desert Nights
Summer Days
Voodoo Woman
Peace
Shadows
My Love
NEW SEALED import 180g LP – 50th Anniversary Audiophile Edition in a thick gatefold jacket – AAA mastered
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