Roy Ayers - Virgin Ubiquity (Unreleased Recordings 1976-1981)The late 70s were such a creatively fertile period for Roy Ayers and his associates that many of his finest recordings never made it onto the official releases. Ayers kept the master tapes in storage until Peter Adarkwah of BBE Records in London got wind of them, at which point they were collected on the aptly named Virgin Ubiquity. The songs feature all the different permutations of Roy Ayers band, which maintained a core philosophy through shifting

hard dancing and the subjectivity of real lived experience

characterized by raw tape echoes

Christgau's Record Guide

Kylie's Number 1 album 'Tension'

political radical

Petersburg over the course of 2015

This LP serves as a worthy addition to introduce the small country's musical legacy

with delicate drums and new age ambiance washing over you like a cooling Azure breeze

Alafia was a studio project from the mid 80s in Paris

and on the dark and woozy title track

in the Rare Groove scene

“Out Of This World” is a two-step and ispantsula gravy train