Sun Ra - Angels & Demons / Nubians of Plutonia
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Artist: Sun RaEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1993-11-25
Music Label: Evidence
Soundtracks:
- Tiny Pyramids
- Between Two Worlds
- Music From The World Tomorrow
- Angels And Demons At Play
- Urnack
- Medicine For A Nightmare
- A Call For All Demons
- Demon's Lullaby
- Plutonian Nights
- The Golden Lady
- Star Time
- Nubia
- Africa
- Watusa
- Aiethopia
Free Music Notes for Angels & Demons / Nubians of Plutonia
Free Music Review: Ruminative and Rhythmic
Hit: 5 Stars
Unlike most of the other reviews, this review is written from the perspective of a relative newcomer to Sun Ra's music who is not a newcomer to jazz. About ten years ago when I began getting into jazz, I heard a snippet of Sun Ra's music that was some of the most raucous and chaotic noise I had ever heard. At that point, I basically wrote Sun Ra off as anyone I would ever want to listen to again. Ten years and thousands of jazz albums later, I have finally returned to Ra in search of new and interesting sounds. I was only disturbed to find out what I had been missing all these years!
As, it seems, with many of Sun Ra's cds released by Evidence, this cd combines two LPs. The first, Angels and Demons at Play, combines some really haunting piano by Sun Ra with some incredible saxophone solos by John Gilmore. There are a lot of spots in which the band plays together as a unit or plays a series of alternating lines in response to one another. The harmonies and general playing of the band simultaneously convey an odd sense of spookiness with a feeling of real excitement about the music. Considering the primitive equipment on which this was recorded, the sound is very good.
The Nubians of Plutonia combines, as the title suggests, complex African rhythms with the spacey melodies characterisitc of the Arkestra. Though the recording quality dulls the drumming somewhat (it is better on some tunes than others), the rhythms drive the other players to creative heights that exceed those on Angels and Demons, creating an unexpected combination of earthiness and spaceyness. As a newbie to Ra, this album--which is not nearly as free or dissonant as a lot of his other music--is highly recommended, especially to those who are already jazz fans and in search of new and creative sounds.
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