Heliocentric Worlds, Vols. 1-2

Sun Ra - Heliocentric Worlds, Vols. 1-2

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Artist: Sun Ra
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-03-28
Music Label: Esp Disk Ltd.
Soundtracks:
  1. Heliocentric
  2. Outer Nothingness
  3. Other Worlds
  4. The Cosmos
  5. Of Heavenly Things
  6. Nebulae
  7. Dancing in the Sun
  8. The Sun Myth
  9. A House of Beauty
  10. Cosmic Chaos

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Free Music Review: Heliocentric Cosmic Chaos
Hit: 5 Stars

The first two volumes of Sun Ra's "Heliocentric Worlds" recordings (both originally released in 1956) have been combined into several different editions on CD. This latest package from ESP-Disk has apparently reached a pinnacle in sound quality, while the CD booklet forwards the work of biographers who seem to have organized the chaotic snippets of information (and, legend has it, deliberate misinformation) about Sun Ra's recording sessions. Only true collectors and experts will argue over whether this particular CD edition is better or worse than any of the others. But in any case, serious music enthusiasts, who are interested in the history of jazz, and the explorations of its far outer reaches, will be hard pressed to find a more astounding and mindboggling piece of work than the Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra.

The enigmatic Saturnian big band leader seems to have based his work during this period on hard bop, though he and his band took the music to distant interstellar regions that it had never been to before, or since. The Heliocentric sessions consist primarily of exploratory and heavily eccentric solos by Sun Ra's crack troupe of jazz astronauts. The woodwinds and percussion of Marshall Allen are especially ear-catching, as are Sun Ra's mystical meanderings on exotic instruments like marimba and celesta. The first seven tracks here, comprising Heliocentric Worlds Vol. 1, are comparatively dark and subdued, with all of the expert musicians laying down introspective solos, and coming together occasionally for skronky freakouts like the one that concludes "Other Worlds" One such jam in "Dancing in the Sun" is topped off by a brainmelting sax solo from Danny Davis. The sessions for Vol. 2, represented here by tracks 8-10, are much freakier, and the centerpiece of the project, if not the whole multi-decade multi-galactic Sun Ra experience, has got to be "The Sun Myth," which is overflowing with bizarre sonic explorations that are decades ahead of their time and light years from home. It's hard to get a handle on what Sun Ra was doing during his innovative and cutting-edge career, and he and his gang of outer space virtuosos surely reached one of their many peaks with Heliocentric Worlds. [~doomsdayer520~]

Heliocentric Worlds, Vols. 1-2 Poster

"...Considered to be among Sun Ra's most groundbreaking [albums]...the compositions that comprise Heliocentric Worlds are examples of the free or anti-structure jazz that became synonymous with a majority of Sun Ra's extensive cannon - boasting well over 100 titles. One unifying factor is the percussive nature of not only this particular band, but also on the seemingly unduplicable compositions that Ra and company were exploring in the mid-`60s...one of Sun Ra's best recordings." - ALL MUSIC GUIDE

1965 was an important year in the shaping of the definitive music formula for the Sun Ra Arkestra. These recordings brought Sun Ra to the forefront of the free improvisation movement as a leader and an innovator. Features Jimhmi Johnson, Robert Cummings, Chris Capors, Bernard Pettaway, Danny Davis, Pat Patrick, John Gilmore, Marshall Allen, Ronnie Boykins, Teddy Nance, Marshall Allen, Walter Miller, Roger Blank.

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