Sun Ra - Strange Celestial Road
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Artist: Sun RaEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Rounder / Umgd
Soundtracks:
- Celestial Road
- Say
- I'll Wait For You
Free Music Notes for Strange Celestial Road
Free Music Review: missing link
Hit: 5 Stars
As you can quickly read from fellow review-writing Arkestronauts, this date diverged nicely into a groove and ambient-space feeling not easily found on most Sun Ra dates. But before you get the wrong idea, keep in mind there are many savory moments of free-blowing here from Gilmore/Allen etc and June Tyson's vocals punctuate nicely, (as they usually do). Of special note is the playing of Sun Ra himself who on this album dabs with the colors of his various keyboards like a skilled painter. His playing on this album is worth the cost of the CD alone.
Quite interestingly, it seems any of these three tracks could be played in a set with Frank Zappa's slightly earlier Waka Jawaka or The Grand Wazoo.
The music here, as was the case with those two albums, slipped over the boundaries created by recording executives into someplace new. It became music that "trendmongers" would have a hard time finding a label for back then and by today's standards it would easily fit a class of it's own. Fusion? What a poor choice of a word for so much good music--music which even up until now in this horribly boring environment of neoclassicism has never really gotten its due.
Strange Celestial Road is anyone with a taste for the missing links of the 1970's.
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