Sun Ra - Space Is the Place
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Free Music Review: dissapointing record!
Hit: 2 Stars
The title track quickly goes on the nerves. The endless repeating of the phrase "Space is the place" (20 minutes) is not inspiring, it is just dull and awkward. There ARE some good moments in it, like the human voice improvisation at about 12min, but overall I was very dissapointed of the song. The two tracks after it are not crap, but not very good either. "Sea of sounds" is good, real "space jazz". The last song is a throwaway. This is the only album of Sun Ra I own, but it didnt got me intrested to look up other things.Free Music Review: Why? Don't punish yourself.
Hit: 1 Stars
While I like quite a bit out "outside" jazz, this is too much. Over twenty minutes of mindless vamps on "space is the place," yelled unimaginatively by various singers--with no let up. Any instrumental soloing is obliterated by the chanting. And that's twenty minutes worth. It may be "mind-blowing" but that's not good. My mind hurt afterward and I couldn't get the vocals out of it! There is more pointless vocalizing on the last cut. That doesn't leave much room for the instrumentals to take up the slack, which is too bad since some of the players are good. I know saxophonist John Gilmore influenced John Coltrane in the early 1960s.I had this album long ago in high school (circa 1974), and considered it a kind of novelty item--like a Mexican jumping bean, perhaps. I went back to it nearly thirty years later--through Interlibary Loan (good thing I didn't buy it!)--and was repulsed.
Oh yes, we also get three "poems" by Ra in the linear notes, two of which are incomprensible. The other is understandable, but trite.
Perhaps someone out there can recommend some non-vocal Ra material. I have "Holiday for Soul Dance" and like it.
Doug Groothuis