This one isn't really new either, but I play it a lot. This album is the second in a set of compilations of unreleased recordings from 1976 - 1981. There is some very funky stuff in here, including a demo version of "Sunshine" with Roy doing the vocals without the female back-up singers.
For those of you who don't know who Roy Ayers is, he is a vibraphone player (it's like a really awesome xylophone) and composer who was most popular in the 70s and 80s. He started out as a jazz musician and subsequently influenced a lot of the later R&B and disco sounds of the 70s and 80s. Very awesome guy.
Virgin Ubiquity II is (as I said before) the second in the set, but I don't have the first one because I found it at a used record store for $11.95 (see picture). So I can't really tell you if it's better/worse/same as the first. I do know it's really good and very funky. Some great disco and funk here. The liner notes are also a lot of fun, as they have little notes from Roy about each individual song. I think that's one thing I really like about having a physical album rather than some downloaded thing. You buy it and you have a THING; and that thing doesn't just have music, it has art and a direction and a physical weight. Damn, I will mourn record stores when iTunes finally kills them all.
R.I.P. Megatunes
I Am Your Mind part 2:
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