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- Summary: The three track release from the avant-garde jazz artist features three previously unreleased recordings from 1972's Universe in Blue and 1966's Strange Strings sessions.
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- Record Label: Relativity Entertainment
- Genre(s): Jazz, Avant-Garde, Pop/Rock, Progressive Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz, Experimental Big Band, African Jazz, Free Jazz
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Apr 28, 2017It’s an intergalactic screening turned sci-fi odyssey. There are visions of interstellar travel, premonitions of the moon landing, and parallels to the mythical, relating the scientific with the divine.
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Apr 28, 2017Listening to this music is often challenging, often exhausting, often requires great patience, but when it finally opens itself up, the listener can take that journey to another realm alongside the Arkestra and see the new lands and the shore on which the band has been waiting for 50 years.
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Apr 28, 2017Fascinating stuff for hardcore fans, but for most other listeners, the first half of the album is more likely to be played more than once.
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MagnetMay 18, 2017This tune ["Calling Planet Earth--We'll Wait For You"] captures Ra's formidable Arkestra bursting at the seams. ... The two other tracks included here are less essential, consisting of droning tones and percussion interludes. [No. 142, p.61]
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Apr 28, 2017A series of Eloe Omoe’s vein-poppingly furious bass clarinet solos follows before a period containing some of Ra’s most unhinged moog playing. June Tyson is given the responsibility of playing interstellar pied piper before a six-minute stretch of keyboard bleeps and whirrs that sonically alternate between an arcade game racing car, space ship and vacuum cleaner. A tough act to follow and in truth the rest of this collection suffers in comparison.