Phil Pratt productions, 1972-1974; Sunshots recorded at Channel One, Black Ark, Dynamic Sound and Randy’s Studio 17, with house engineers Ernest Hoo Kim, Lee Perry, Carlton Lee and Errol Thompson at the helm, and backing by Sly & Robbie, Family Man, Chinna, and co, aka Soul Syndicate. Check the versions of Money Money Money and I Don’t Want To Be Outside.

With a sweet Hamlins on the flip.

Scorcher. Ska at the threshold of rocksteady. Mittoo and Dizzy Moore do it to it.

Prince Buster rumpus.

‘Verve By Request.’

‘I want to play songs like I used to sing when I was real small.’

This fiftieth anniversary CD includes as a bonus the track briefly substituted for Spirits on an early vinyl edition. It is the same tune known as Vibrations on the album of that title on Arista/Freedom (aka Ghosts when issued on Debut) and as ‘[tune Q]2’ on the Revenant box set Holy Ghost.

Bells is rough, revelatory, key. Albert and his brawling new group — brother Donald, Charles Tyler (making his recording debut), Louis Worrell and Sonny Murray — rocking New York Town Hall to the ground on May Day 1965. Prophecy was captured on tape by the poet Paul Haines the year before at the Cellar Cafe in NYC: the Spiritual Unity lineup, Ayler with Sonny Murray and Gary Peacock; with four performances from the same concert added to the original LP release.