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When Angels Speak Of Love (CD)

By: Myth Science Arkestra (Artist) and Sun Ra (Artist)

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DISC 1 for When Angels Speak Of Love (CD) Album By Myth Science Arkestra (Artist)...
1   Celestial Fantasy
2   Idea Of It All, The
3   Ecstasy Of Being
4   When Angels Speak Of Love
5   Next Stop Mars
 

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Review

Alternative Press (3/01, pp.92-4) - 4 out of 5 - "...An excellent example of Ra's typical avant-garde exhibitionism..."
The Wire (10/00, p.60) - "...It's organic musique concrete....some of the most extraordinary music ever heard on this, or any other world."
JazzTimes (12/00, pp.99-100) - "...This album positioned the space-age band to be embraced by a new spaced-out audience..."

Title Note

Sun Ra And His Myth Science Arkestra: Sun Ra (piano, Clavioline, gong); Marshall Allen (alto saxophone, oboe, percussion); Danny Davis (alto saxophone, percussion); John Gilmore (tenor saxophone, percussion); Pat Patrick (baritone saxophone, percussion); Robert Cummings (bass clarinet); Walter Miller (trumpet); Ronnie Boykins (bass); Clifford Jarvis (drums); Thomas "Bugs" Hunter (percussion).

Recorded at The Choreographers Workshop, New York, New York in 1963. Originally released on (Saturn 1966). Includes liner notes by John Corbett and Natel Juni.

All tracks have been digitally remastered.

Sun Ra's prodigious output encompassed everything from high-octane swings and stomps to tribal chants, rhythmic tapestries, and open-ended tone poems. This album, comprised of sessions recorded in 1963, was originally released on Ra's own Saturn label, and impossible to find until its reissue on CD in 2000.

This set opens with a nearly six-minute-long fanfare: Marshall Allen's oboe and Walter Miller's trumpet are manipulated with tape delay by recording engineer (and Arkestra percussionist) Tommy "Bugs" Hunter, creating a sonic realm that's nicely captured in the title it was given, "Celestial Fantasy." This is followed by "The Idea Of It All," a gracefully propulsive work layered with Ra's angular chords and cascading horn lines. The title piece is a simple ballad softly rendered, as if fractured through a prism of color. The album has a clear identity of its own, as it mixes Sun Ra's compositions and scoring with a communal/interplanetary sensibility and a glorious handful of impassioned soloists.

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