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Vinyl Track List:
A1 Holiday
A2 Kwajilori

B1 I Am Your Mind (Part 2)
B2 I Like The Way You Do It To Me

C1 Third Time
C2 Touch Of Class

D1 Release Yourself
D2 Come To Me

E1 Wide Open
E2 Funk In The Hole

F1 Liquid Love
F2 Tarzan
F3 Sunshine (Demo)

Includes unlimited streaming of Virgin Ubiquity II (Unreleased Recordings 1976-1981) via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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BBE Music is excited to present the first repress since 2006 of Roy Ayers classic Virgin Ubiquity albums, with brand new sleeve notes by Sean P.

When two volumes of previously unreleased Roy Ayers tapes entitled ‘Virgin Ubiquity’ hit the racks courtesy of BBE in 2004/5, it was a little mystifying as to why these recordings had remained in the can for so long. The 2000s are a time when bonus tracks, particularly on re-issues, are commonplace and demos, concerts, broadcasts and other audio of historical interest augment (and sometimes simply pad out) many ‘deluxe’ editions.

At the beginning of the millennium few of Roy’s ’70s and ’80s albums were available on compact disc, a format which facilitated extra material due to its longer playing time – and even when the rest of Roy’s ’70s albums made it to CD, nothing recently unearthed was included – although there was a taster in the form of the instrumental ‘Party Sex’, whose release had been shelved until 1995. A proper trawl through the archives was clearly overdue; Peter Adarkwah met with Roy and sifting through the unused sessions began, with the chosen tracks transferred and sent to New York based engineers John Hopkins and Jamey Staub to mix.

American funk, soul, and jazz composer, vibraphone player, and music producer, dubbed "The Godfather of Neo Soul". He is best known for his compositions "Everybody Loves The Sunshine", "Searchin", and "Running Away". At one time, he was said to have more sampled hits by rappers than any other artist.