Sun Ra - Visits Planet Earth/Interstellar Low Ways
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Artist: Sun RaEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1992-11-20
Music Label: Evidence
Soundtracks:
- Reflections In Blue
- Two Tones
- El Viktor
- Saturn
- Planet Earth
- Eve
- Overtones Of China
- Onward
- Somewhere In Space
- Interplanetary Music
- Interstellar Low Ways
- Space Loneliness
- Space Aura
- Rocket Number Nine Take Off For The Planet Venus
Free Music Notes for Visits Planet Earth/Interstellar Low Ways
Free Music Review: A great place to start
Hit: 5 Stars
This is the first Sun Ra CD I'd recommend to anyone. It covers three distinct chunks of his early Chicago output. There is not a bad cut on the whole thing.
"Visits Planet Earth" was first released on the Saturn label in 1966, but it was made up of two sessions from the 1950's. The first four cuts were salvaged from the not-yet-released-in-1966 "Sound Of Joy" session from late 1956. This would have been his second commercially distributed album, but (producer) Tom Wilson's Transition label folded. The remaining three cuts are probably from late 1957 or early 1958, and rework some of the other "Sound of Joy" material in funkier and more exotic arrangements, while introducing the through-composed "Eve" (in its best recorded version). While you will eventually want to pick up "Sound of Joy" as well, don't let the overlap dissuade you; the sound quality is sharper here, and the remainder of this CD is great.
Sun Ra recorded a massive, hi-fidelity 30-song session before leaving Chicago in late 1960. Songs from this session appeared on five different LPs. The greatest of his 1960 performances were collected on "Interstellar Low Ways," also known as "Rocket Number Nine." The music is tonally strange, wackily space-obsessed (especially on the two cuts with lyrics), exotic, yet highly melodic and accessible.
"Fate in a Pleasant Mood" is mostly from the same 1960 session and runs a close second to this album in charm factor; the album it is paired with, "When Sun Comes Out," is from a few years later, and is far more difficult for the first time Sun Ra listener.
If you enjoy VPE/ILW (and you will), I recommend "Sun Song", "Nubians of Plutonia" and "Jazz in Silhouette" as your first follow-up explorations. "Secrets of the Sun" is perhaps the best intro to his further-out early 1960's New York phase, but I think it is only available on bootleg vinyl.
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