Once in a while, particularly when I’m at work and I have some reports to crank out, I’ll put on my headphones and hunker down, and sometimes that includes just listening to the songs and albums I’ve added here to my site since I launched it in 2008.

I decided to add one of my favorite groups of recordings to the “Mantra” section of this site because I even reference it in this section and I now feel that this series of recordings perfectly represents what I’m talking about in the Mantra.

Here is the original post (from January 2009), posted again, so you can listen to it if you haven’t already:

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This is a great old recording in relatively high quality, which is demo/sales pitch where Herbie talked about the Fender Rhodes and some of the effects he was using. This was recorded some I figure in 1973 or 1974, just before his Thrust album came out.

The Spook Who Sat By the Door was a Blaxploitation era movie that Herbie Hancock did the soundtrack for. The theme song eventually became the song “Actual Proof” on Thrust. Look for more posts about this album and ‘the spook’ soundtrack coming up some time…