Store Categories THE LIGHTMEN PLUS ONE Energy Control Center / 2x LP NEW VINYL / Now-Again 2018

Revolutionary, spiritual jazz from the unlikely city of Houston, Texas: the definitive issue, mastered from the original tapes. PRESENTED IN A TIP-ON GATEFOLD JACKET Bonus disc contains previously unreleased tracks.

Drummer, bandleader and activist Bubbha Thomas had toured America with R&B revues, served as a session musician for Peacock and Back Beat Records, and played straight ahead jazz with legends before the political and social upheaval of the late 1960s led him to a path first charted by Coltrane. Energy Control Center, his third LP with his Lightmen band is his masterpiece: deep-set, maverick jazz on part with the best Tribe and Strata East titles. This is a highpoint amongst the best of the 1970s jazz underground, a collective voice of resistance to the musical and cultural status quo.

Contains second disc with bonus tracks: unreleased alternate takes, including two versions of the spiritual jazz classic “All Praises To Allah”, all housed with an extensive booklet with photos and liner notes.

A1 –The Lightmen Plus One* Wench
A2 –The Lightmen Plus One* Blues For Curtis
A3 –The Lightmen Plus One* Cold Bair
A4 –The Lightmen Plus One* Energy Control Center
B1 –The Lightmen Plus One* Leo
B2 –The Lightmen Plus One* Jupiter's Child
B3 –The Lightmen Plus One* The Phantom
C1 –The Lightmen Plus One* Leo (Alternate)
C2 –The Lightmen Plus One* All Praises To Allah (Alternate)
C3 –The Lightmen Plus One* Cold Bair (Alternate)
D1 –The Lightmen Plus One* The Phantom (Alternate)
D2 –The Lightmen Plus One* All Praises To Allah (7" Single Version)
D3 –The Lightmen Plus One* Me
D4 –Thomas Meloncon Ain't Gonna Wait Too Long
D5 –Thomas Meloncon Bullets Of A Gun
D6 –Thomas Meloncon Waiting On Your Mind
D7 –Thomas Meloncon 400 Years

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