Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes

If you were to give Astral Traveling the injustice of a sub-genre, you may want to label it as Free Jazz, or Abstract Jazz in the same vein as Miles Davis or Pharoah Sanders, but what makes Lonnie Liston Smith different is that the instrumentation of the Fender Rhodes electric piano gives Smith’s sound such a warm melody, where other instrumentations and songs that fall into the abstract category tend to be a bit uncontrolled. The sounds that are expelled from these recordings have beat makers drooling, as you can have you’re smooth Hip Hop instrumental manufactured in minutes, as all you need is any section of any of these songs on a loop, and add some drums and a bass line, and you will have yourself a certified classic. But beyond the Hip Hop appreciation of this particular album, it is certainly a unique sound, and one that can only be defined as Lonnie Liston Smith.

• 1 astral travelling
• 2 let us go into the house of the lord
• 3 rejuvenation
• 4 i mani (faith)
• 5 in search of truth
• 6 aspirations