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Digitally remastered edition of this 1977 album. After the success of Expansions, Lonnie Liston Smith & the Cosmic Echoes were riding high, with Lonnie at the height of his creative powers and his brother Donald’s vocals adding to the cosmic jazz sound. Two more albums had followed on Flying Dutchman before changes at RCA meant that it was decided that the next long-player would be released on the parent label. As such, the final Cosmic Echoes album was something of an outlier and has remained out of print since the early 2000s. A glorious concoction that saw the group mix up Lonnie’s innate sense of melody, rhythm and spiritual consciousness, it was a fitting finale in the studio. Produced by Bob Thiele and Lonnie, Renaissance is being restored to it’s position in the Flying Dutchman catalogue by this BGP reissue. A masterpiece of cosmic jazz funk, it includes the reflective ‘Between Here And There’, ‘Space Lady’ and the jazz dance classic ‘Mardi Gras (Carnival)’. – Editorial Review.

Track listing:

A1 – 0:00 – Renaissance [Music by Lonnie Liston Smith, Words by Jeff Gaines]
A2 – 4:52 – Mardi Gras (Carnival) [Music by Lonnie Liston Smith]
A3 – 10:59 – Space Lady [Music by Lonnie Liston Smith]
B1 – 17:45 – Starlight And You [Music and Words by Lonnie Liston Smith]
B2 – 23:09 – Mongotee [Music by David Hubbard]
B3 – 28:59 – A Song Of Love [Music by Lonnie Liston Smith]
B4 – 33:10 – Between Here And There [Music by Lonnie Liston Smith]

Personnel:

Acoustic Guitar – Gene Bertoncini
Arranged By [Woodwind, Strings, Backing Vocals] – Horace Ott
Bass – Al Anderson
Clavinet – Leon Pendarvis
Congas – Lawrence Killian
Drums – Wilby Fletcher
Flute, Soprano Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone – David Hubbard
Flute, Vocals – Donald Smith
Percussion – Guilherme Franco
Producer, Piano [Acoustic], Electronics [Electronic Colorations], Mixed By, Liner Notes – Lonnie Liston Smith
Synthesizer [Moog] – Ken Bichel

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Label: RCA Victor – APL1-1822
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Gatefold
Country: US
Released: 1976