Space Is the Place

Artist: Sun Ra and His Astro Intergalactic Infinity Arkestra
Label: Grp Records
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 011105024921
EAN: 0011105024921
ASIN: B0000065KI

Release Date: 1998-03-10

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Tracks:

Space Is The Place
Images
Discipline
Sea Of Sounds
Rocket Number Nine

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Customer Reviews:

Get the Soundtrack.......2006-07-30

This is a spin off of some sorts. The soundtrack to the Film (of the same name) is a really good release. This album is good but the soundtrack is one of the best of his CD's. RELESE SUB UNDERGROUND ON CD with something else SATURN.

Outer Space.......2006-07-16

Not being a great conoisseur of Sun Ra's work, I still feel confident enough to say that, in spite of psychodelic "spices" that might seem trendy, in spite of "etno" components, this CD shows deep and profound jazz feeling on the part of the band leader and his musicians.
And even if youre not a true jazz fan you still might enoy this eccentric music.

...my kinda place..........2006-01-24

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.

One of the many great records by Sun Ra.......2006-01-09

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.

As much a classic as "Kind of Blue".......2005-01-20

After watching the excellent film, I decided to go out and pick up the soundtrack. I certainly was not dissapointed. The opening "Space Is the Place" is a bit tedious, but who said art had to be entertaining? The album's other classic, "Rocket Number Nine", was subsequently covered by NRBQ. This is truly what galaxies thousands of miles away must sound like. Any avant-garde jazz fan or just 50s - 70s jazz fan in general must pick up this album. Greatest jazz album ever? Possibly.

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