Preeminent reissue label Light In The Attic has announced that they are putting out Another Side, a lost ’70s folk album by Leo Nocentelli, the guitarist for the renowned New Orleans band the Meters. The album, which was recorded in the early part of the decade at Cosimo Matassa’s Jazz City Studio, has never been released.

Per some press materials, the recordings for the album turned up at a Southern California record swap meet in 2018 and were bought at auction by collector Mike Nishita, brother of Beastie Boys collaborator “Money Mark.” They had originally been stored Allen Toussaint’s Sea-Saint Studios, after Nocentelli decided to shelve the album to focus on the Meters. When those studios were destroyed during Hurricane Katrina, Another Side was among the recordings that were able to be salvaged from the wreckage — they sat in a storage facility in SoCal for over a decade.

But in November, Another Side will be released for the first time. “What you’re telling me is an amazing discovery,” Nocentelli said in a statement. “That’s a part of my life that I thought was gone forever.” The album features Nocentelli’s Meters bandmates George Porter Jr. and Zigaboo Modeliste, as well as Toussaint on piano and James Black on drums.

You can hear the album’s first single, “Thinking Of The Day,” and watch a trailer for Another Side below.

TRACKLIST:
01 “Thinking Of The Day”
02 “Riverfront”
03 “I Want To Cry”
04 “Pretty Mittie”
05 “Give Me Back My Loving”
06 “Getting Nowhere”
07 “Till I Get There”
08 “You’ve Become A Habit”
09 “Tell Me Why”
10 “Your Song”

Another Side is out 11/19 via Light In The Attic. Pre-order it here, where you can also hear 30-second snippets of all the tracks if you’re so inclined.