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File under: Free Jazz

The Sun Ra Arkestra

The Antique Blacks (CD)

Label: Art Yard

Format: CD digipack

Genre: Jazz

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€16.00
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Another much sought after and long unavailable title recorded in 1974 with a smallish ensemble consisting (probably) of stalwarts Marshall Allen, John Gilmore, Danny David, James Jacson, Akh Tal Ebah, Clifford Jarvis, Artakatune, and a new electric guitarist, Sly, and released on Saturn in the same year. This sounds like a studio recording and carefully thought out - most of the compositions appear only on this record (apart from versions of 'Nature's God' and 'Space Is The Place'), and include a chain of very interesting accompanied /interpolated) spoken texts: 'There is a Change in the Air,' 'The Antique Blacks,' 'The ridiculous 'I' and the Cosmos 'Me'' as well as a very long and scary coda to 'Space is the Place.' Ra plays Rocksichord and Moog throughout (solo on track 7 and at the end of track 8). Theatrical and political; a fascinating release.

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File under: Free Jazz
Cat. number: ARTYARDCD010
Year: 2009
Notes:
Packaged in tri-folded digipak cover. The spine and label credit this release to Sun Ra. The sleeve also refers to the artists as Sun Ra And His Intergalactic Myth Science Solar Arkestra. Live recording, 8/17/74, Philadelphia, originally released on the El Saturn record label, 81774. Track 8 is a bonus track not on the original Saturn release. Transfered and mastered at Technology Works. Front cover photography of Sun Ra, 14th December 1968 Berkeley California © Baron Wolman. Remastered and reissued by Art Yard Ltd in cooperation with ESP-Disk and Infinity Is, LLC, a New York Limited Liability Company, representing the successors to the members of the original Infinity Is, Inc, an Illinois corporation. In this manner we honour and perpetuate the Sun Ra legacy. Published by Enterplanetary Koncepts BMI P&© by Art Yard Ltd and Enterplanetary Koncepts. All rights reserved © 2009 Art Yard Ltd. Distributed by ReR Megacorp. (UK) Distributed by ReR USA (USA) Distributed by Locus Solus (Japan) Made in USA