Sun Ra & His Myth Science Arkestra: When Angels Speak Of Love

Sun Ra & His Myth Science Arkestra: When Angels Speak Of Love - COMPACT DISCS

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Title:

When Angels Speak Of Love

Artist:

Sun Ra & His Myth Science Arkestra

Label:

Greyscale

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

5056083200009

Genre:

Jazz

Release Date:

2017-02-24

Number of Discs:

1

Digitally remastered edition. Sun Ra was an American jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, poet and philosopher known for his experimental music, "cosmic philosophy", prolific output, and theatrical performances. He was inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame in 1979. For much of his career, Ra led "The Arkestra", an ensemble with an ever-changing name and flexible line-up. As John Szwed writes about "When Angels Speak of Love was considered a bizarre record when it was heard even three years later, made more bizarre by extreme echo, horns straining for the shrillest notes possible, rhythms layered, their polyrhythmic effect exaggerated by massive reverberation (which was abruptly turned off and on). 'Next Stop Mars' is the centerpiece of the album, a very long work which opens with a space chant, followed by Allen and Gilmore taking chances on their horns beyond what almost any other musician would dare at that time. Sun Ra played behind them, again relentlessly spinning around a single tonal center with two-handed independence, then rumbling thunderously at the bottom of the keyboard against Boykins's bass, a clangor made heavier by electronic enhancement." In other words, Classic RA and now finally available on CD.

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