Facets of the Universe, originally released om LP in 1969, is truly a fascinating document of the Pan-African avant-garde jazz captured at a place where European, African, American and West Indian roots merged to create two universal improvisations. What more could SELWYN LISSACK have asked of a single opportunity to record as a leader?
For this reissue on New York avant record store Downtown Music Gallery's own ARC label,a bonus cut is included. The track Friendship Next of Kin is presented in two versions: an edited version which includes a drum solo excised from the original take (replayed here), and the album version without the solo.
The band includes Mike Osborne, Mongezi Feza, Kenneth Terroade, Harry Miller, Earl Miller, and for a few moments on persussion Louis Moholo [originally uncredited]. Lissack, by the way, became a highly regarded holographic imagist/sculptor, wotking with Salvador Dali and Alice Cooper in the '70s