Sun Ra & His Arkestra - Lanquidity
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Free Music Notes for Lanquidity
Free Music Review: Excellent
Hit: 4 Stars
This mighty cadet was so ahead of his time, he had to wait for technology to catch up to his kitchen sink ambition. Ra was using electric keybords in 1963.
By the late 1970s, the instruments he needed to blast even further were there for the buying. This is later Ra in full electric force. Lanquitity uses the keybords, and the rest of Ra's band, on funky, few chord grooves.
These allow Ra and the crew to dig in. The joy in this music--ultimately, what made Ra great was all his music was highly sophisticated fun--is in listening to these ace players interact together in the grooves. Collective soloing is a technique too little used in jazz, but this album takes full advantage-not for the sake of accidemic experimentation, but for musical adventure.
When jazz was a series of genres, Sun Ra flew the ship that shined a beam on them all.
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Free Music Review: Mellow Fusion
Hit: 4 Stars
This 1978 album is good for someone whose ears are not yet ready for Sun Ra's farthest-out voyages in the key of space. Missing are the atonal dissonance of the Heliocentric sixties and the chanting over polyrhythmic percussion of the Astro Black seventies. The smoothly executed jazz of Liquidity mostly features Ra on electric piano backed by the horns of the arkestra. The audio quality is very good, like his studio albums of the late 1980s. The harmony is mild and the tempo is sleepy. If you like Weather Report or Return to Forever, then you will like this album.Free Music Review: I dunno....
Hit: 2 Stars
maybe it me. It doesn't sound very creative or compelling. There are so many other great Ra discs that move me, this one seems kind of boring, and, rare for him, dated.
Although, driving to the supermarket early one morning for milk, bleary eyed and foggy-minded, it came on and sounded pretty good. Otherwise, I have too many other Ra products to care much about this one.