Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes Expansions / Cosmic Funk

• 1. Expansions
• 2. Cosmic Funk

A rare jazz-funk 12" documenting the timeless work of an epistemic classic. Lonnie Liston Smith's 'Expansions' is normally known as an album, but it's only the central theme, composed first and without an initial ambition to craft a full-length around it, which said album took its name. The high strings of the track 'Expansions' bring a filmic tension to an otherwise louche funk line, laying down a stark contrast that more than justifies its use as the 1974 album's opening track and namesake. On the B-side here, however, comes not one from Smith's Expansions, but rather another opener, 'Cosmic Funk', which was released just six months earlier and documents a much wilder, Afrobeat-adjacent wah-fest, with Smith himself referring to the track and resultant record as an example of 'sci-fi funk'.