Astral Traveling

Astral Traveling Artist: Lonnie Liston Smith
Label: RCA
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 090266387823
EAN: 0090266387823
ASIN: B00005TOXW


Release Date: 2002-07-09

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Listmania:

  1. Top shelf but relatively obscure "out" jazz

Tracks:

  1. Astral Traveling
  2. Let Us Go Into The House Of The Lord
  3. Rejuvenation
  4. I Mani (Faith)
  5. In Search Of Truth
  6. Aspirations
  7. Astral Traveling
  8. Rejuvenation
  9. I Mani (Faith)
  10. In Search Of Truth

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Light a "J" and listen to Astral Traveling.......2006-03-19

Although I completely respect them as musicians, I've never been a fan of Weather Report or Mahavishnu Orchestra. Fusion is a tricky genre for me, and I was quite reluctant to purchase Astral Traveling based on what I could gather about the music by the cover. However, I do like Lonnie Liston Smith's playing with Pharoah Sanders (as well as Miles Davis), so I decided to take a chance on this disc. Well, let me say this exceeded all expectations. This might be fusion in a sense - there are points where I am reminded of the minimalist beauty of In a Silent Way - but this is also music in the spirit of John Coltrane. The percussionists and Indian musicans really compliment what Smith is doing, but it is the beauty of his compositions that comes through the most for me. These compositions are beautifully realized by Lonnie Liston Smith's less-is-more playing and also through the emotional soprano and tenor sax work of George Barron. I have never heard of this guy, George Barron, and Allmusic has no biographical information about him and only a couple credits, but his playing on this album is intense and unique and varies from ultra-mellow to some fairly dissonant moments.

Oh, and in the liner notes Nat Hentoff writes, "Put this album on, raise the volume, and you're guaranteed a most fulfilling, natural music high." This might be true about the natural music high, but I can see another kind of natural high doing a lot for this music too. In a good way.

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