condition (record/cover): EX / EX- (minimal wear)

White and blue labels.

The 1970 film soundtrack that became a permanent dancefloor and digger classic: "Theme De Yoyo", with Fontella Bass singing over the deepest funk groove the avant-garde ever produced, opens a record that then travels everywhere else the Art Ensemble of Chicago could go - baroque quotation, free ballistics, ceremonial percussion, all inside one soundtrack assignment for Moshe Mizrahi's film. That opening track alone has been sampled, compiled and worshipped across five decades of crate culture, converting listeners who would never otherwise touch free jazz; the rest of the album then finishes the job properly. Rescued for posterity by Nessa, the Chicago label that documented this circle with total devotion and impeccable production standards.

If one AEC record belongs in every collection regardless of genre allegiance, it is this one - the point where the revolution grooves, and the groove carries the revolution. Perennial, essential, always in demand, never in stock for long.