Sun Ra & His Arkestra - Lanquidity
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Free Music Review: Musical Genius
Hit: 5 Stars
Sun Ra is a musical genius. I am convinced that he has intimate knowledge of outer space. When I listened to his rendition of "Motherless Child" I could feel the struggle, mental frustration and disconnect from socity that many African Americans have felt in relation to global racism. There is a point in the song in which it sounds as though the collective manacled mind, in its intense struggle to escape its baneful condition, wonders into outer space. I urge anyone to listen to this unique interpretation.
As I listened to other music by Sun Ra on the train to work, I would close my eyes and relax. After a few weeks I started to see faint, adumbrated images in my mind. These images always started with an image of a red dot that turned into the sun. After a while these images turned into pictures of the sun over a skyline of buildings, usually by a large body of water. There were even times after I saw the sun over the skyline that I started to see flashes of jazz artists in rapid succession. I told my sister about this and she said he is probably leaving his calling card with you. You must have made a connection with him.
Listening to "Heliocentric Worlds" was a revelation to me also. I would listen to this album over and over again at night as I fell to sleep. There were a couple of times when I felt my body disappear and I blended in with the blackness around me. I thought to myself "this is what Sun Ra is doing if you listen with an open mind." He will mentally transport you to space (inner and outer space) if you listen with open heart and mind. I had no expectations as to what would happen to me when I started listening to his music. I did not even consider the fact that anything would happen to me when I listened. I just was listening to enjoy the music.
Another time when I listened to "Heliocentric Worlds" I felt a burst of energy at the bottom of my spine. I felt it move up my spine and burst inside my body as thougth there were stars inside of me. I felt as though I was a universe with stars and satalites floating around inside of me. This only lasted a few seconds but it was intense.
I don't mean to sound delusional and New Agey. I don't even mean to exaggerate. I did have these experiences and can only attribute them to listening to Sun Ra's music. I believe it has great spiritual power.
Free Music Review: Genuine hi-fi sci-fi jazz
Hit: 5 Stars
When Carl Sagan pondered the possibility of life elsewhere in the solar system, he conjured up creatures such as a hot-air balloon-sized flying jellyfish that would float through Jupiter's blistering atmosphere propelled by sulfurous discharges. Sun Ra operates on a similar wavelength, apparently attempting to recreate what musical instruments would sound like on other worlds. "Lanquidity" is the most repeatedly listenable Ra release I've encountered (The title track for "The Magic City," for instance, an album released 13 years earlier in 1965 sounds much like a construction site hooked up to a loudspeaker) and one that easily holds its own beside Miles Davis' "Bitches Brew," Art Blakey's "Free for All" and Sonny Sharrock's "Ask the Ages." The meandering Hammond, droning horns, and occasional whale-speak and duck-honk effects give the set a malleable, dreamy complexion. "There Are Other Worlds (They Have Not Told You Of)" feels like a combo LSD deprogramming session and love-in taking place inside a robotic whale adrift in the deep ocean. Some of the songs even suggest a contemporary trip-hop vibe, then abruptly zoom ahead back into the future and eventually steps outside time's bounds, just looking back at the one-dimensional timeline, nothing more than a stray slug's slime trail. Like music that makes you jabber like you're Carlos Castaneda? Then this is the one.Free Music Review: Different But Still Excellent Ra
Hit: 5 Stars
This record splits Sun Ra fans down the middle: some of them like it and others hate it. After all, there's "Where Pathways Meet", which sounds like some detective TV show theme, there's some new age-style business on some tracks, and what's that nutty wah-wah pedal doing on the record? Mr. Ra definitely breaks from his usual sonics on "Lanquidity", so why can't I stop playing this record? Maybe after all is said and done its' still a very solid package of great jazz music. His dreamy keyboards, especially the Crumar synthesizer, create gorgeous tapestries of sound that truly attain an effortlessly intergalactic world for your ears. Although the music is low-key and dreamy I return to this one again and again, and the wah-wah pedals eventually make sense!Free Music Review: Great Underheard Record
Hit: 5 Stars
I haven't heard the reissue yet, but I'm intimately familiar with the album via a second-hand tape. It's a great record that puts Ra's harmonic beauty and innovation over a laid-back "Quiet Storm" groove. It's like nothing else I've heard, quite, and it sounds entirely like 1978 to me. I've read some blockheaded reviews elsewhere that dismissed this album as watered-down Ra. It's not watered-down; it's transplanted. If you like moody R&B, or you like slowly unfolding music ala Miles Davis or Jon Hassell, or you like Sun Ra and his lovely interplanetary harmonies, you will enjoy this album.Free Music Review: Great Underheard Record
Hit: 5 Stars
I haven't heard the reissue yet, but I'm intimately familiar with the album via a second-hand tape. It's a great record that puts Ra's harmonic beauty and innovation over a laid-back "Quiet Storm" groove. It's like nothing else I've heard, quite, and it sounds entirely like 1978 to me. I've read some blockheaded reviews elsewhere that dismissed this album as watered-down Ra. It's not watered-down; it's transplanted. If you like moody R&B, or you like slowly unfolding music ala Miles Davis or Jon Hassell, or you like Sun Ra and his lovely interplanetary harmonies, you will enjoy this album.