View basket “Rough MIx” has been added to your basket. Another Side Leo Nocentelli SKU: 29.00 29.00 £29.00 £29.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Light In The Attic Released Date: 19th November 2021 Buying Format: 1LP 1LP Coloured Vinyl Buying Options Choose an option1LP1LP Coloured VinylClear Another Side quantity Add to basket ReserveBack Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Light in the Attic is thrilled to give this remarkable record the spotlight it so rightly deserves. 50 years later, all is not lost. -First-ever solo album by legendary guitarist Leo Nocentelli of The Meters. -All tracks previously unreleased and never-before-heard in any format. -Featuring Allen Toussaint, James Black and both George Porter Jr. and Zigaboo Modeliste of The Meters. ** UK EXCLUSIVE BRIGHT YELLOW VINYL – 500 COPIES ONLY ** Recorded at Cosimo Matassa’s Jazz City Studio in New Orleans in the early ’70s. Liner notes by Sam Sweet with additional contributions by Pesuky of Nocentelli, featuring a new interview with Leo Nocentelli. Vinyl pressed at RTI. Design by the multi GRAMMY®–winning designer Masaki Koike. Booklet includes hand-written lyrics by Leo Nocentelli. LP includes 20-page booklet. CD housed in a digipak and featuring a 28-page booklet. “Things happen for a reason, man.” – Leo Nocentelli At just fourteen, Leo Nocentelli was backing up Otis Redding. Soon after, he was playing on hits for Lee Dorsey, The Supremes, and The Temptations. As an original member of The Meters, Leo wrote instant classics “Cissy Strut” and “Hey Pocky A–Way,” but his greatest moment on record may be totally unknown, until now… Recorded at Cosimo Matassa’s Jazz City Studio in New Orleans in the early ‘70s and then lost to the ages, Another Side is one of Leo Nocentelli’s most personal and definitive moments ever cut to tape. A mixture of funky folk and rootsy, raw emotion (think Bill Withers and James Taylor meeting Allen Toussaint at Link Wray’s Three Track Shack), this previously unheard album shines like the sun on a spring day on the New Orleans fairgrounds. Backing Nocentelli is an all-star line-up of New Orleans royalty, including Allen Toussaint (piano), James Black (drums), and both George Porter Jr. (bass) and Zigaboo Modeliste (drums) of The Meters. Deeply introspective, the album features nine original songs by Nocentelli, plus a soulful rendition of Elton John’s “Your Song.” Half a century later, these recordings sound just as fresh and engaging as the day they were recorded. What makes Another Side even more extraordinary, however, is the fact that the album—which could have easily become a classic in the ‘70s singer-songwriter canon—sat untouched for decades; miraculously surviving the devastating blow of Hurricane Katrina, only to be found 2,000 miles away at a Southern California swap meet in 2018 by record collector Mike Nishita. The album’s incredible journey is documented in the liner notes by Sam Sweet (New York Times, Los Angeles Times), who spoke with Nocentelli and Nishita about the recording process and re-discovery of the tapes. Sweet’s full notes appear in the release’s accompanying booklet alongside hand-written lyrics by Leo Nocentelli. The first pressing of the vinyl edition will feature gold-foil treatment on cover and spine. Rounding out the package are original designs and layout by the multi GRAMMY®–winning designer Masaki Koike. While Nocentelli was embedded in New Orleans’ R&B scene, he was also deeply inspired by the late 1960’s and early 1970’s rising singer-songwriters, and soon found himself exploring sounds that were miles away from his band’s hard-edged funk riffs. Whenever he had downtime from session work and shows, Nocentelli spent much of 1971 recording his newly-found, reflective, diaristic songs at Matassa’s Jazz City studio. Backed by longtime Meters bandmate George Porter Jr. on bass, Nocentelli crafted the lineups for his sessions to match the tone of the material. When he needed a pianist, he’d call Toussaint. For percussion on the slower songs, he used drummer Zigaboo Modeliste, but many of the tracks featured James Black—a frequent collaborator of Toussaint’s and a member of Ellis Marsalis’ jazz group, whom Nocentelli recalls as an “unbelievable” musician. The recording, which Nocentelli fondly refers to as his “country-and-western-album,” paints a picture of a young man yearning to find a sense of purpose. “I was going through some changes which were reflected in the songs that I wrote during that time,” he tells Sweet. Among them is the mid-tempo “Getting Nowhere,” in which he expresses a sense of frustration, as he watches others find success around him. Similarly, “Till I Get There” details a man who is struggling to persevere in his goals. In the soaring “Tell Me Why,” meanwhile, the singer contemplates the existence of God. Other songs center around fictional characters. “Pretty Mittie,” for instance, is sung from the perspective of a farmer who longs to give up his arduous life for the city. “You’ve Become a Habit” is about a man who falls for a sex worker named Fancy. “Riverfront” is based on stories that singer Aaron Neville shared, about his days working on the New Orleans waterfront. Nocentelli also chose to perform one cover: Elton John’s breakthrough hit, “Your Song.” The guitarist made the recently-released ballad his own—infusing it with a loping, head-nodding cadence, ever so tastefully “funkdafied” in true New Orleans fashion. By the time that the album was finished, The Meters were busier than ever. They had just signed a record deal with Warner Brothers and were now the official house band at Toussaint’s studio, Sea-Saint. There, they not only backed artists on Toussaint’s Sehorn label but had also become the go-to session musicians for every major artist that recorded in New Orleans. Rather than focus on a solo career, Nocentelli poured his energies into The Meters’ next album. Eventually, time moved on, as did Nocentelli, and he decided to store his unreleased solo album at Sea-Saint for safekeeping. In 2005, when Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, Sea-Saint was among its victims. While Toussaint (who passed away in 2015) had sold the hallowed studio in the mid-90s, hundreds of his archived recordings remained in the building. The new owner salvaged what he could from the flooded building, shipping everything to a storage facility in Southern California. Boxes of tapes sat there for more than a decade before moving to another unit, which foreclosed a year later. The contents were purchased in a blind auction and, days later, sold at a swap meet. The fact that record collector Mike Nishita just happened to be there was pure kismet. Nishita, a DJ and brother to “Money Mark” Nishita (of Beastie Boys fame), recognized the Sea-Saint label on the boxes and purchased all 673 master tapes at the swap meet. He inspected the contents with his friend Mario Caldato Jr., the longtime audio engineer for the Beastie Boys. In addition to masters from Irma Thomas, Dr. John, Lee Dorsey, and Toussaint, there was a quarter-inch reel with Nocentelli’s name on it. As Caldato and Nishita played it back, they knew they had something special. “There was nothing else like it,” writes Sweet. “An acoustic album by the greatest funk guitarist who ever lived. It was the tape Mike would play for people to show them how special the collection was. The best album in the vault was something nobody knew existed.” Eventually, Nishita and Nocentelli connected, “He was so grateful, so sincere,” recalls Nishita. “I just kept thinking about how this music needs to be heard…Especially when you look at all the things that had to fall into place for these tapes to survive and be discovered this way.” As Nocentelli simply puts it, “Things happen for a reason, man.” Artist Leo Nocentelli Genre Rock And Pop Label Light In The Attic Buying Options 1LP , 1LP Coloured Vinyl Format 1LP , Coloured Vinyl Condition New Country UK Track Listings Thinking Of The Day Riverfront I Want To Cry Pretty Mittie Give Me Back My Loving Getting Nowhere Till I Get There You've Become A Habit Tell Me Why Your Song Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Rock And Pop View Product Quick View Neil Young Peace Trail Rock And Pop | Warner Bros | 1LP Released 6th January 2017 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Neil Young Peace Trail £21.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Warner Bros SKU: 0093624915065 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 6th January 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Circa Waves Different Creatures Rock And Pop | Virgin Records | 1LP Released 6th March 2017 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Circa Waves Different Creatures £18.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Virgin Records SKU: V3177 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 6th March 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Love Four Sail Rock And Pop | Rhino | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 12th July 2019 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Love Four Sail £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Rhino SKU: 0603497852116 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 12th July 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Bert Jansch A Man Id Rather Be (Part 2) Folk | Earth Recordings | 4LP, Box Set Released 23rd February 2018 £51.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bert Jansch A Man Id Rather Be (Part 2) £51.00 Genre: Folk Label: Earth Recordings SKU: EARTHLP024 Formats: 4LP, Box Set Released Date: 23rd February 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View David Bowie Loving The Alien (1983 – 1988) Rock And Pop | Parlophone | Box Set Released 8th October 2018 £236.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders David Bowie Loving The Alien (1983 – 1988) £236.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Parlophone SKU: 0190295693527 Formats: Box Set Released Date: 8th October 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Papercuts Life Among The Savages Rock And Pop | Memphis Industries | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 8th May 2014 £14.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Papercuts Life Among The Savages £14.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Memphis Industries SKU: MI0316LP Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 8th May 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Motion City Soundtrack Panic Stations Rock And Pop | Epitaph | 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 18th September 2015 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Motion City Soundtrack Panic Stations £18.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Epitaph SKU: 045778737413 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 18th September 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Cocteau Twins Milk & Kisses Rock And Pop | UMC | 1LP Released 27th March 2019 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Cocteau Twins Milk & Kisses £18.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: UMC SKU: 7731061 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 27th March 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Mark Knopfler Privateering Rock And Pop | Mercury | 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 29th August 2012 £30.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Mark Knopfler Privateering £30.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Mercury SKU: 3708778 Formats: 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 29th August 2012 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Carole King/The City Now That Everything’s Been Said Rock And Pop | Light In The Attic | 180g, 1LP Released 15th October 2015 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Carole King/The City Now That Everything’s Been Said £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Light In The Attic SKU: LITA136LP Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 15th October 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Rock And Pop Start again
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