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Track Listing
1. It's After the End of the World
2. Under Different Stars
3. Discipline 33
4. Watusa
5. Calling Planet Earth
6. I Am the Alter-Destiny
7. Satellites Are Spinning
8. Cosmic Forces
9. Outer Spaceways Incorporated
10. We Travel the Spaceways
11. Overseer, The
12. Blackman / Love In Outer Space
13. Mysterious Crystal
14. I Am the Brother of the Wind
15. We'll Wait For You
16. Space Is the Place
| Details | | Producer: | Ihnfinity Inc. | | Distributor: | Select-O-Hits | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Sun Ra (piano, keyboards, synthesizers); Marshall Allen (alto saxophone, flute).
The challenging, complex SPACE IS THE PLACE (music to the soundtrack of the film of the same name) is definitive early-1970s Sun Ra. Heavily dominated by electronics (Ra plays Mini-Moog synthesizer, clavinet, and a Rocksichord), intense cross-rhythms (the sessions featured 10 percussionists), vocal chanting, and spoken narrative, SPACE IS THE PLACE laid the groundwork for the Arkestra's aesthetic as it would remain for the rest of its career.
While there are traces of Ra's swing and bop roots (the infectious "Discipline 33," for example, or the opening theme to the fiery "Watusa"), the approach here is largely free and expressionistic. Time signatures are broken and restructured, and the Arkestra alternates between ambient textures, choral call-and-response, sonic collage, and aggressive bursts of avant-garde noise. Particularly interesting are June Tyson's vocal contributions, which fall somewhere between Ella Fitzgerald, African folk tradition, and John Cage-like minimalism. Cosmic in scope and genre-bursting in musical ambition, SPACE IS THE PLACE continues, and in many ways defines, Sun Ra's quest to make music unlike any other.
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