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the free-jazz movement was probably the best example of your description, with albums by John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Sonny Sharrock, etc. or on labels like BYG, Strata East, ESP-DISK, etc. being all about black power, love, peace, spirituality, and whatnot (even if they were mostly instrumental).
As far as the "black rock" sound from that era: I'd put Betty Davis in that category, as well as Funkadelic, especially the early Westbound albums.
Undisputed Truth put out an album called COSMIC TRUTH in '75 that you should definitely hear; the political content is limited to a line here and there, but musically it's a departure for them: very psychedelic, lots of rocking guitar and spaciness, imitations of Bootsy, P-Funk, Rare Earth, etc.
http://www.funkmysoul.gr/?p=131
Seek out the CHAINS AND BLACK EXHAUST compilation; some of the most obscure, nasty, dirty black-funk-fuzz-rock 45s yet to be dug up. Amazing. Make sure the copy you find has "Showstopper" by Iron Knowledge, one of the best tracks; not all of them do. This link claims to have it:
http://out-sounds.blogspot.com/2011/02/various-artists-chains-and-black.html
A jazz keyboardist named Bayete (aka Bayete Umbra Zindiko) made two solo albums back then, one of which (SEEKING OTHER BEAUTY) has some truly wild hairy fuzz-wah craziness mixed in with the psychedelic spiritual jazz. A must-hear.
http://orgyinrhythm.blogspot.com/2007/08/bayete-umbra-zindiko-seeking-other.html
A couple years later, Bayete formed a group called Automatic Man, whose 1st album (with the blue cover) is one of my favorites. Imagine if Hendrix had lived and gotten into synths and sci-fi. (The second album, with the pick cover, is eh.) Can't find a decent link right now...
Edwin Birdsong's SUPERNATURAL LP (1973) definitely fits the bill, too.
And that Purple Image album is my shit.
----- Get over yourself.
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