Sun Ra - Space Is the Place
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Free Music Review: Sun Ra in glorious orbit!
Hit: 5 Stars
Space Is The Place opens with its title track, a twenty-minute freeform freak-jazz-psychedelic-soul-funk meltdown, a thundering acid-bop meltdown full of squirming melodies, dramatically repurposed instruments, head-splittingly chaotic vocals, solos that seem to spin off in multiple directions at once, and layers of percussion that'll make you dance and have a seizure at the same time. It sounds primitive and futuristic and progressive and playful and high-minded and juvenile and logical and psychotic all at once, and it's a masterpiece. And that's just the first song on the album.
Flip the record over, and you've got four more gems. "Images" is the sound of post-bop teetering on the edge of free jazz. Led by Sun Ra's oceanic piano, the song swerves from a gorgeous theme into regions of near atonality before spiraling back into beauty again, with the kind of high-minded grace reserved for geniuses. "Discipline" is a rolling, apocalyptic drone, and "Sea Of Sounds" is sheer scorched earth freeform noise. "Rocket Number Nine" is willfully cheesy, utterly irresistible space-age jazz pop.
Classic freak jazz. Get it.
Free Music Review: ...my kinda place...
Hit: 5 Stars
pointblank:
unless you've been considered a little bit 'odd' or 'eccentric' by those closes to you, you proly have no business buying this cd...
i mean, there are some jazz artists that some folks jus dont get (monk, mingus, shepp, mr. ra) and they proly never will...
but if you ARE one of them 'nutnuts' (as my mama might say)
who like a lil more adventure in their musical preferences, then by all means...
...knock yourself out with this!
contents:
20% cry of my people...
18.7% i have a dream...
12.8% mingus...
a whole days dose of vitamin c...
.05% the sub-sahara...
negative X over C divided by the space/time continuum...
the gulp of light rays being swallowed by a blackhole...
22.3% daaaaayum, that's good...
and a miscellaneous ammount of midnight...
...uh...
nevermind...
najee is over in the next aisle.
Free Music Review: classic
Hit: 5 Stars
Space was always the place for this master--extraterestrial act aside, Sun Ra was one hell of an arranger and musician. But he never flew as high as on this album
Unlike a lot of his 1960s work, the title track here is distilled to a simple theme, played by the baratone sax. It is almost like the 1960s modal experments of Coltrane or Miles, except Ra is not filling the space--left by modes--with improvsation, but with electronic noises and voices and textures and layering. Masterful.
The rest here is the usual fun and games my favorate marsian dependably provides on almost every album: and this is not to belittle this work.
Only to say that like the Beatles or Zappa and few others, Ra is so naturally good, two toothpicks and a lamp are enough to create music, and I would even buy that.
Free Music Review: Taught Me A Serious Lesson
Hit: 5 Stars
How does one get off calling music such as this music??? Surely this is nothing more but pure noise. Sqwank, sqeek, bam, bang, and boom. Twenty minutes of nothing, just a bunch of weirdos in funny regalia. Wait a minute, I think I see it, I do see it. This Sun Ra fellow took a group of musicians and put disattachment from the things of this world into MUSIC!!! He sits you down in any old chair, and blasts you off into a part of space no satellite has ever seen. How could this be? I am finding new melodies in all this dissonance. I am being challenged to find things I have never seen before. WoW!!! I am thinking!!! Who'd a thunk it. Music can inspire a person to think!Free Music Review: One of the many great records by Sun Ra
Hit: 5 Stars
Sun Ra is one of the most underrated composers of all time! Not only that, his arrangements are at times as phenomenal as the great Duke Ellington. There is so much happening on this disc it is hard to even try to describe it - it ranges from space noises to post bop ballads. 'Images has got to be one of the best songs in Ra's entire discography. It is hard to say whether his Ellington-like arrangement of the song on 'Jazz in Silohuette' or the unique fanfare heard on this album is better - they are both good versions. Sun Ra has discipline in his music and freedom in his music - not many groups of the 60's had both these qualities.