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Sun Ra

Lanquidity

Philly Jazz / Strut

Recorded one long hot night in July 1978.
Sun Ra at the Rhodes, Disco Kid on guitar… Deadly funk, heady and grooving. A stone classic.
The new box set features the original LP alongside alternative mixes by Bob Blank first released in limited quantities for a 1978 Arkestra gig at Georgia Tech. Both versions of the album are cut loud at 45 rpm over 2LPs each.
Housed in a silver foil box, as per the original issues the first LP comes in a foiled sleeve while the second features two yellow A4 sheets pasted onto a white sleeve. With a twelve-page booklet featuring previously unseen photos and various texts.
The CD version is housed in a foil digipak.
The single LP is a straightforward reissue of the original LP.

The title track was ‘one of Sun Ra’s on-the-spot compositions,’ recalls Danny Ray Thompson. ‘Almost like an Ancient Egyptian Stargazing Ceremony, mapping out the stars and the planets.’ Where Pathways Meet is his ‘funky version of an Egyptian march. Pharaoh is sending his troops off to fight and this is his pep-talk! The music seems to take different pathways but still converges.’ The loping groove of That’s How I Feel features the reflective trumpet lines of Eddie Gale, with solos by John Gilmore, and Marshall Allen on ‘snake charming oboe’. The funky Twin Stars Of Thence weaves around Richard Williams celebrated elastic bassline; the haunting closer There Are Other Worlds is pure ‘space music’.

Sun Ra

Pathways To Unknown Worlds / Friendly Love

Evidence

Two studio albums from 1973, though Friendly Love was never released at the time — and Pathways now comes with an unissued track.

Sun Ra

The Solar Myth Approach (Vol. 1 & 2)

Corbett Vs Dempsey

Sun Ra

On Jupiter

Strut

From 1979, and including UFO — rumbustious disco, Arkestra-style, featuring Marshall Allen on oboe, with solos from John Gilmore, Taylor Richardson and Michael Ray (who also mixed the album, layering in pre-recorded material).
Seductive Fantasy lines up John Gilmore, James Jacson’s bassoon, some fine baritone saxophone and some electric guitar and bass, Marshall Allen’s oboe and Eloe Omoe’s bass clarinet, with great piano-playing from Ra throughout, and towards the end some arco strings.

Sun Ra

Sleeping Beauty

Strut

From the same 1979 recording sessions as Strange Celestial Road, this is one of Sun Ra’s best-loved, funkiest records, with John Gilmore in full flight, and a bigger Arkestra than had just played the Moers festival.

Sun Ra

Piano Recital

Leo

Live at Teatro la Fenice, Venice, November 1977. From the same tour that produced Disco 3000 but this is a different cup of tea. Thoughtful solo piano. Limited edition.

Sun Ra

Space Is The Place

Impulse!

The LP is in the ‘Verve By Request’ series.

Sun Ra

Super-Sonic Jazz

Saturn

An early lyrical gem — from 1956 — mixing up big-band sonorities, ahead-of-its-time electric piano, and extra percussion.

Sun Ra

Art Forms Of Dimensions Tomorrow

Saturn

Sun Ra

The Solar-Myth Approach Volume 1

BYG / Charly

Sun Ra

The Solar-Myth Approach, Volume 2

BYG / Charly

Sun Ra

The Other Side Of The Sun

Sweet Earth

Ace, late-seventies set, warmly buoyant and inimitably baggy, including Space Is The Place.
Six reeds (including John Gilmore and Marshall Allen), three trumpets (including Michael Ray and Eddie Gale), two trombones (with a young Robin Eubanks), the French horn of Vincent Chancey, guitarist Dale Williams, three bassists, four percussionists, singer June Tyson and of course Ra on keyboards.

Sun Ra

Concert For The Comet Kahoutek

ESP

Sun Ra

Hours After

Black Saint

Sun Ra

A Black Mass

Son Boy Records

Those Christmas records just keep on coming.
This one’s a Jihad, originally, featuring Leroi Jones on a mission.

Sun Ra

Media Dreams

Art Yard

Sun Ra (piano organ, moog, rhythm machine, vocals), John Gilmore (tenor sax, drums, vocals), Luqman Ali (drums, vocals), Michael Ray (trumpet, vocals) — the companion to Disco 3000.

Sun Ra

Sound Of Joy

Delmark

Sun Ra

Horizon

Art Yard

The full band live in Egypt, in 1971, featuring Ra’s astounding moog-playing and drum orgies galore.

Sun Ra

The Heliocentric Worlds Of Sun Ra

ESP

Sun Ra

The Heliocentric Worlds Of Sun Ra II

ESP

Sun Ra

Interplanetary Melodies

Norton

Sun Ra

Detroit Jazz Center 1980

Art Yard

Sun Ra

College Tour Volume 1: The Complete Nothing Is

ESP

The 1966 live LP augmented by more than ninety minutes from the same five dates.

Sun Ra

Heliocentric Worlds Of Sun Ra

ESP

All three volumes, with each disc enhanced, containing archival photos, critical writings and historical videos, including the eighteen-minute documentary Sun Ra Spaceways.

Sun Ra

Sunrise In Different Dimensions

Hat Hut

A nonet Arkestra live in 1980.

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