Sun Ra - Angels & Demons / Nubians of Plutonia
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Free Music Review: Discover Sun Ra
Hit: 5 Stars
This is a great place to start if you're discovering Sun Ra. Another album I'd strongly suggest is "Sun Ra Visits Planet Earth/Interstellar Low Ways." Sun Ra has made a huge number of recordings with his Arkestra... His albums range from adventurous to downright insane. This particular album and the other one I mentioned contain a very pleasing balance of all the things that make Sun Ra so much fun: the big band, the swing, the rumba, the wild orchestrations and rhythms, the improvisations, and the overall "interplanetary funkmanship" of which George Clinton once sang.
My first Sun Ra album was actually a wild one: "Other Planes of There." I really like it, along with another adventurous title "Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy/Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow." There are a number of these wilder examples of free jazz in his catalogue, and there are also more conventional albums.
My recommendation is to begin with the more conventional albums, because they offer plenty of fun insanity to begin with. "Angels & Demons at Play/The Nubians of Plutonia" is a particular favorite of mine. If you can get a hold of a copy, check it out!
Free Music Review: Varied Sessions, Consistently Adventurous
Hit: 5 Stars
"Angels and Demons" is a short 8-song collection (more an "EP" than an "LP") that shows Ra's Chicago-era Arkestra doing some of their best work, moving from colorful big-band music (tracks 5-8) to more idiosynchratic music that reflected Ra's belief is cosmology (tracks 1-4)."Nubians" is a heavily percussive LP that influenced Coltrane among others. The recording quality on it varies from good to so-so. There are some wonderful compositions on it and many lengthy moments of drum-fueled ambience - "global trance" - that sound contemporary today, and were extraordinary for the late 1950's.
Free Music Review: Great place to start
Hit: 5 Stars
This was one of my first intros to Mr. Ra and in retrospect, it was likely the best place to start. Spacey, swinging, primal, great vocal chanting, dark, brooding, lively: this one has it all, from one of the underappreciated masters of modern music. If you are at all curious, buy it, you won't be dissapointed (unless you have no taste, in which case you likely don't even know who Sun Ra was, and are not reading this!)Free Music Review: A mystical and ancient quality about it
Hit: 5 Stars
The songs are very well represented by the title of these two LP recordings. It is strange and exciting, but not far out in space. It has a more ancient egypt in your mind quality. The recording quality is not the best in fidelity, which is only a little distracting. They needed more mic's.Free Music Review: bright satisfied
Hit: 4 Stars
This is great music. I bought this CD after hearing an NPR blurb on Sun Ra and his music, during which they played an exerpt of Aithiopia, which really got my attention. The CD exceeded my expectations. The sound is very exotic (not in a kitchy Martin Denny/Les Baxter exotica way). It's like nothing else I've heard. Listen to the sample of "Angles and Demons at Play," and enjoy. The only oddity is the inclusion of "Urnack," which is a little mainstream and out of place on this CD. The sound quality could be better, but the low-fi kind of adds to the atmosphere. Enjoy-
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