Year/Genre/City: 1977, Funk / Soul,  Chicago, IL
Matrix #: JC 34905
Condition: VG, sounds great; some light marks

Cultural Facts:

1. Scene Ecology: Maurice White came out of Chicago’s Chess Records session world, then scaled EWF from clubs to arena-level production.

2. Political Science: Their ’70s visuals fused Black pride with Egyptian/space symbolism—an early Afrofuturist lane that later pop culture borrowed from.

3. Album Art: The sci-fi cover painting is by Japanese illustrator Shusei Nagaoka, part of the era’s cross-genre LP “space art” boom.

Updated: 2/27/24 CC | 6/3/24 ob 1/23/25 sc  1/13/2026 CC