Mandre - Solar Flight (Opus I) Remastered Audio HQ

New Remastered Audio (2022).
Enjoy Friends :-).

[HappyCharlie]

One man space disco funk band, arranging-production-organs by Michael Andre Lewis... 😀

Active during the late '70s and early '80s, Mandré was a Motown-supported alias of one-man funk band Michael Andre Lewis.
Prior to making his helmeted funk hero a reality, the Omaha, Nebraska native was a close associate of Buddy Miles, worked with LaBelle and Johnny Guitar Watson, and led the band Maxayn, a platform for partner Maxayn Lewis.
After he replaced George Duke in Frank Zappa's band, as heard first on Zoot Allures (1976), Lewis signed to Motown and made three out-there albums for the label: Mandré (1977), Mandré Two (1978), and M3000 (1979).
By his label's standard, these were not commercially successful recordings.
The debut, promoted with full-page trade magazine ads that announced "The Masked Marauder Is Among Us, " and featuring a duly nutty cover of Zappa's "Dirty Love, " generated little interest.
Its "Solar Flight (Opus I), " an instrumental disco-funk exploration, was played at David Mancuso's Loft parties and maintained a six-week stay on Billboard's Soul Singles chart. Only the third album touched the Soul LPs chart.
Few heard Mandré 4 (1982), released on Lewis' FutureGroove label, due to a false warehouse fire alarm that set off sprinklers and destroyed most of its small pressing.
Lewis hung up his helmet -- which had been created by costume designer Bill Whitten, who later made Michael Jackson's famous white glove -- but continued to work behind the scenes and was deeply involved with emerging studio technology, including the design of Roger Linn's LinnDrum.
As a tester of Roland products, he was one of the first musicians to record with the infamous Roland TR-808. He was a pioneer in the use of synthesizers on records and worked with the now famous Roger Linn on developing the first digital drum machines.

[renedarwin]

Don't know who you are nor why you did this, but thank you!

[JamesRobinson-we]

The year "Star Wars" came out.