Space Is the Place (Music From the Original Soundtrack), by Sun Ra & His Intergalactic Solar Arkestra

Space Is the Place (Music From the Original Soundtrack)

by Sun Ra & His Intergalactic Solar Arkestra

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1.	It's After the End of the World 03:25	buy track
2.	Under Different Stars 03:55	buy track
3.	Discipline 33 03:22	buy track
4.	Watusa 07:11	buy track
5.	Calling Planet Earth 03:05	buy track
6.	I Am the Alter-Destiny 01:10	buy track
7.	Satellites Are Spinning 02:34	buy track
8.	Cosmic Forces 03:08	buy track
9.	Outer Spaceways Incorporated 03:00	buy track
10.	We Travel The Spaceways 02:29	buy track
11.	The Overseer 03:04	buy track
12.	Blackman / Love In Outer Space 16:53	buy track
13.	Mysterious Crystal 05:51	buy track
14.	I Am the Brother of the Wind 05:53	buy track
15.	We'll Wait for You 04:11	buy track
16.	Space is the Place 04:23	buy track
17.	The Mathematics of the Altered Destiny 13:18	buy track
18.	Listen Intently to the Things I Do Not Say 07:10	buy track
19.	Creation is a Fabrication 13:45	buy track
20.	My World is the Space Way 06:30	buy track
21.	The Idea of the Greater Age 04:08	buy track

about

A celestial journey is what Sun Ra and His Arkestra created with Space is the Place. Sun Ra’s opus, at its simplest, is a trip through outer-bound melodies, planetary bodies, eras in time, crystals, and space caravans. You will be transported a world away!

The film soundtrack of SPACE IS THE PLACE is an entirely different journey than the identically titled 1973 Blue Thumb LP. The latter project was an audio-only vinyl platter; the 1972 sessions were produced for use in the soundtrack of the James Coney-directed film SPACE IS THE PLACE.

This remastered, expanded reissue of the original soundtrack album, first issued in 1993 on the Evidence label, features an album's worth of previously unissued recordings from the same 1972 film soundtrack sessions.

This expanded edition also features The Mathematics of the Altered Destiny, a second previously unissued album recorded at the same soundtrack sessions, now first released half a century after being recorded. These newly discovered tracks, courtesy of Michael D. Anderson's Sun Ra Music Archive, are heavy on the prose of Sun Ra, as he and the Arkestra's Saturnian Queen June Tyson bestow countless bits of wisdom, apocrypha, mystery, and inspiration upon the listener.

The 2023 expanded edition of SPACE IS THE PLACE: THE FILM SOUNDTRACK is also available from Modern Harmonic on 2CD, 3LP, and DVD (catalog MH-8267).

credits

released July 12, 2023

All original sessions produced by Sun Ra
Reissue Producer: Jay Miller for Modern Harmonic
Executive Producers: Irwin Chusid and Jim Newman
Space is the Place film producer: Jim Newman
Mastering: Joe Lizzi
Released on CD, LP, and DVD in 2023

All compositions by Sun Ra © Enterplanetary Koncepts (BMI)

Personnel:
Sun Ra: vocals, piano, keyboards, Minimoog, Farfisa, Clavinet
Marshall Allen: alto sax, flute, oboe, bassoon
June Tyson: vocals, bells
John Gilmore: tenor sax, drums
Danny Davis: also sax, flute, bass clarinet, percussion
Eloe Omoe: bass clarinet, bongos, percussion
Danny Ray Thompson: baritone sax, percussion
Kwame Hadi: trumpet, congas, vibraphone
Larry Northington: alto sax, congas, percussion
Wayne Harris: trumpet
Lex Humphries: drums
Ken Moshesh: congas

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A Helpful Guide to the Many Sun Ra Albums on Bandcamp: daily.bandcamp.com/2017/10/13/sun-ra-album-guide
The foremost figure in musical Afro-futurism and space-jazz. Keyboardist, composer, Arkestra leader, arranger, philosopher-jester, fashion icon, cosmic guide. Born Herman Blount in Alabama, 1914, left the planet in 1993, giving Earthlings a monumental catalog of recordings that transcend genre. ... more

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