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You know, vahid, seriously, you should get Janus as a companion to Solar-Myth Approach. There are some similarities. Weird amorphous vocals with that irritating ehcoey sort of sound from Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy.
― Rockist Scientist, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 00:58 (seventeen years ago) link
hm! i've never even seen that one. i'll keep an eye out ... i went through a phase of only listening to "quiet place ..." and "cosmos" and "live at nuits maeght festival 1+2" and "solar myth approach 1+2" ... gotta go back to the classics now ...
how is "sleeping beauty", i keep seeing that used at amoeba.
― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 01:12 (seventeen years ago) link
just got Foundation Maeght Nights vol 1 - only listened to side 1 so far but I dug it a bunch, thanks for the rec. Keepin my eyes out for Futuristic Sounds but haven't seen it yet...
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 3 July 2007 22:22 (sixteen years ago) link
um no wait its Volume 2 - anyway I like it, now must find copy of Volume 1
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 4 July 2007 14:14 (sixteen years ago) link
is it strange to find a sealed vinyl copy of "My Brother The Wind" on Saturn? 'Cause I just did. Will report back. Have not heard the Foundation records.
― sleeve, Thursday, 5 July 2007 19:52 (sixteen years ago) link
If anyone's wanting to convert the uninitiated, I'd recommend the Evidence 'Fate in a Pleasant Mood/When Sun Comes Out' CD. It was the first I ever got, almost exactly 10 years ago, at the tender age of 18. 'Fate in a Pleasant Mood' from 1961 is a uncommonly serene, pleasant record, even compared to the earlier albums, and is likely to appeal even to folks who can't even handle Coltrane or Mingus. But then 'When Sun Comes Out' as enough in the way of more "out-there" stuff and percussion pieces to make the curious listener want to go into the records that followed: 'Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy', 'Other Planes of There', 'The Magic City' and so on.
― J Kaw, Thursday, 5 July 2007 20:46 (sixteen years ago) link
is it strange to find a sealed vinyl copy of "My Brother The Wind" on Saturn?
It is if it's an original pressing...but a great many reasonably-priced Saturn reissues are readily available.
Definitely worth seeking is the all-too-brief "Sleeping Beauty" from 1978. Features some of John Gilmore's most fantastic playing...Art Yard Records did a beautiful, great sounding LP reissue a year or so ago.
― Sparkle Motion, Thursday, 5 July 2007 22:47 (sixteen years ago) link
'Fate in a Pleasant Mood' from 1961 is a uncommonly serene, pleasant record, even compared to the earlier albums, and is likely to appeal even to folks who can't even handle Coltrane or Mingus.
But it's still very distinctly Sun Ra's music. Not that I thought you implied otherwise, but I just wanted to throw that in there. I don't think it's a "Here's a Sun Ra album that doesn't really sound like Sun Ra, so you might like it" type of thing.
― Rockist Scientist, Thursday, 5 July 2007 23:14 (sixteen years ago) link
"Here's a Sun Ra album that doesn't really sound like Sun Ra, so you might like it"
Like handing someone a copy of Lanquidity. That doesn't even sound like the other records he cut that same year.
― Sparkle Motion, Thursday, 5 July 2007 23:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Well, see I'm not sure I'd agree with that either, but I don't want to get into a debate about that one. (But see Milton Parker's comments above.)
I was having doubts as to whether Solar-Myth Approach was as great as I initially thought, but most of it is so pure, it's fantastic. It's that sound that is so much his own. You have to just let the tracks come and go though, you can't try to grasp it. Three minutes of the most beautiful, poignant little melody that just evaporates and then it's on to another piece of the musical sampler.
― Rockist Scientist, Friday, 13 July 2007 00:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Indeed, Rockist Scientist, that wasn't what I was implying.
However, I should say that I especially like 'Fate in a Pleasant Mood' because I've never liked the earlier albums much, and have always been a little confused about albums like 'Sun Song' and 'Super-Sonic Jazz' getting high accolades and too much attention relative to all other Sun Ra.
― J Kaw, Sunday, 15 July 2007 01:51 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't like the stuff from before Fate in a Pleasant mood as much either. In the right mood, I enjoy some of it. I see Jazz in Silhouette recommended particularly often by jazz fans to other jazz fans. I guess for people who really like hard bop, that's a good starting place.
(I've decided again that the beginning of Solar-Myth Approach is a little lacking. There are better examples of similar things elsewhere in Sun Ra's catalogue. But some tracks are just heavenly.)
― Rockist Scientist, Sunday, 15 July 2007 01:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Disco 3000 is apparently getting an expanded CD reissue that will include the full set from the show
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 16 July 2007 17:12 (sixteen years ago) link
SUN RA LIMITED EDITION 28 CD sets £45 on this pre-announcement. Plus Postage Costs Scheduled release in 2 weeks Please order as soon as possible, there are only 300 in total, we only have a few of them and I’m sure they’ll vanish fast.
SUN RA and the Omniverse Jet Set Arkestra The Complete Detroit Jazz Centre Residency December 26, 1980 - January 1, 1981 28 high quality CD-Rs with three-colour printing on each disc in custom-made cases with poster-size insert with track listings. High quality desk recordings. Total time: over 26 hours Only a few extracts from these eleven concerts have ever been previously released. On the three New Year's shows there is no song overlap, and they perform at least NINETY (!) Sun Ra compositions in one night. We managed to secure some of these, while they last and are offering them to our mailing list before anyone else. IT’S NOT ON THE WEBSITE - CONFIRM YOUR BOX BY REPLYING TO THIS EMAIL! Total edition limited to 300 copies.
ReR Megacorp 79 Beulah Rd. Thornton Heath Surrey CR7 8JG UK 44 (0) 208 771 1063 www.rermegacorp.com
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 18:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Crikey!
― Tom D., Tuesday, 13 November 2007 18:21 (sixteen years ago) link
I can't in good conscience purchase this right now, unfortunately
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 18:22 (sixteen years ago) link
excessive
― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 18:28 (sixteen years ago) link
why do nerds love excess so much
― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 18:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Last night KCSM (San Francisco) played NPR's 'Jazz Profile' of Sun Ra: 'Cosmic Swing'. It was... out there.
― Bobbi Peru, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 20:12 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't have time to read this whole thread now, but I will say that I've been really enjoying "... Visits Planet Earth" from '66. I like a lot of his sixties work, especially with Ronnie Boykins on bass. Has some great, almost kraut-ish groove action as well as fine larger-band arrangements.
― ian, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 20:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Lots of new videos up on youtube. This is from around the period when I saw them for the first time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPrsMUFXnqs
― Rockist Scientist, Saturday, 24 November 2007 16:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Enlightenment
― Rockist Scientist, Saturday, 24 November 2007 16:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Current Arkestra sounds really solid here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbw0WrZsRRw
It's been a few years since I've seen them. Maybe before I leave Philly, I can get up the energy to go out and see them again.
― Rockist Scientist, Monday, 26 November 2007 01:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Uh, actually it's a cover band. Well, the cover band sounds pretty solid.
― Rockist Scientist, Monday, 26 November 2007 01:05 (sixteen years ago) link
I was starting to think, wait, where is Marshall Allen? How come I don't really recognize anyone? I am disgraced.
Recent spate of Sun Ra reissues and first-time releases of archival material:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_st?rs=301668&page=1&rh=n%3A301668%2Cp_32%3Asun+ra&sort=-releasedate
(I'm not in a buying mood but I'm sure I'll be getting to some of this in the next year or two.)
― Rockist Scientist, Saturday, 5 January 2008 22:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Space is the place!
― Rockist Scientist, Thursday, 10 January 2008 22:35 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah, sort of a motherlode, right?
― moonship journey to baja, Sunday, 16 March 2008 21:23 (sixteen years ago) link
i picked up "creator of the universe", "strange strings" (already had a bootleg), "disco 3000"
very interested in "some blues", "night of the purple moon" and the rest of the sun ra tapes series ...
ms f0zi has been buying and listening to the sun ra research discs, i can't say i'm totally into these but then again she's more into the solo piano stuff than i am too.
i think one thing about these obscure 70s recordings that bothers me is the lack of big horn sections and group chants.
― moonship journey to baja, Sunday, 16 March 2008 21:29 (sixteen years ago) link
"sun ra tapes" should have been "lost reels"
some of the lost reels are very heavy on chants, i think
― moonship journey to baja, Sunday, 16 March 2008 21:31 (sixteen years ago) link
"disco 3000" has some ultra-berserk synth solos, if that's your thing. up there with the black forest concerts.
― moonship journey to baja, Sunday, 16 March 2008 21:36 (sixteen years ago) link
re: "black forest concerts", i also never mentioned buying "black myth / out in space"
http://i20.ebayimg.com/03/c/01/a3/3e/f3_7.JPG
which is the UNabridged version (with verbose notes) of the "it's after the end of the world" concert
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf800/f876/f87697b4cv8.jpg
i slammed it upthread for being chopped up, not having liner notes, etc
you gotta admit it has a nice cover, though
― moonship journey to baja, Sunday, 16 March 2008 21:42 (sixteen years ago) link
I remember really like the solo piano concert that ws issued on Leo, perhaps bcz I ws (stupidly) expecting it to be a kind of microcosm of his orchestral music...quite a slow-burner.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 17 March 2008 20:19 (sixteen years ago) link
so many reissues... a friend loaned me the double CD Disco 3000 reissue, that was great
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 17 March 2008 20:21 (sixteen years ago) link
we got "Purple Moon" at the radio and I dubbed it but haven't listened to it in full yet.
(haha xpost here) so much stuff coming out, still. 4 boot CDs were just torrented on D!m3 a while ago after surfacing on eBay.
― sleeve, Monday, 17 March 2008 20:21 (sixteen years ago) link
media dream >>>>>>>>>>>>>> disco 3000
― moonship journey to baja, Saturday, 17 May 2008 20:30 (sixteen years ago) link
media dream is incredible. thanks, art yard.
(ps i thought disco 3000 was sort of mediocore)
i still have no idea where to begin! (guess i'll read this thread, then.)
― tricky, Saturday, 17 May 2008 23:07 (sixteen years ago) link
so ... is it just me or are "on jupiter" and "sleeping beauty" more destroy than search?
― moonship journey to baja, Saturday, 13 December 2008 21:31 (fifteen years ago) link