Description: Sun Ra Space Is The Place LP Blue Thumb 1st Press QUAD BTS 41 John Gilmore Jazz This is essential Ra a good place to start if you haven't heard his music or another masterpiece for the indoctrinated. Space Is the Place is a studio album by Sun Ra. It was originally released on the Blue Thumb label in 1973. In 1998, it was reissued by Impulse! Records. Space Is the Place provides an excellent introduction to Sun Ra's vast and free-form jazz catalog. Typical of many Sun Ra recordings, the program is varied; earthbound songs, like the swing number "Images" and Egyptian exotica piece "Discipline," fit right in with more space-age cuts, like the tumultuous "Sea of Sounds" and the humorous "Rocket Number Nine." Sun Ra fuses many of these styles on the sprawling title cut, as interlocking harmonies, African percussion, manic synthesizer lines, and joyous ensemble blowing all jell into some sort of church revival of the cosmos. Throughout the recording, Sun Ra displays his typically wide-ranging talents on space organ and piano, reed players John Gilmore and Marshall Allen contribute incisive and intense solos, and June Tyson masterfully leads the Space Ethnic Voices on dreamy vocal flights. This is a fine recording and a must for Sun Ra fans. Sun Ra is a man of music. But when I listened to the unmistakable art-jazz masterpiece Space Is The Place (21 minutes), my severely paranoid mind was not only confused by the overflowing delusions, but my pulse rate was 60 and my heart rate about that of REM sleep. I could see that George Clinton was out of shape. "No one can match this" I thought. My other self advised me not to listen to Sun Ra's music as it made me extra nervous. I hesitated at first, but eventually, out of desperation, I listened to it and found it unnatural to be labelled avant-garde. It didn't feel avant-garde/experimental to me at all. The sound of orderly madness slid into my ears, stimulating my pores in a diabolical way, and like a headache pill, the pain melted away and I was transported to nirvana. The album responded to my mental illness to such an extent that I had a delusion that it was made for me and exploited me. You would expect a parade of bizarre and experimental songs, but a psychotic patient can understand "by ear" that "this album is the best healing music of the century". This is not music of madness or eccentricity. Nor would anyone be foolish enough to say that it is music made by aliens, even if Sun Ra himself says so. This is a great piece of music album history. If there was a Nobel Prize in music, I would give it the highest honour, Sun Ra would win it, and I, the critic, would say out loud on that platform that this is one of the greatest albums in music history.
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Location: Portland, Oregon
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Artist: Danny Davis, Danny Ray Thompson, John Gilmore, June Tyson, Marshall Allen, Pat Patrick, Sun Ra, Sun Ra And His Intergalactic Affinity Arkestra
Speed: 33 RPM
Record Label: Blue Thumb Records
Release Title: Space Is The Place
Material: Vinyl
Catalog Number: Blue Thumb Records – QUAD BTS 41
Edition: First Pressing
Type: LP
Format: Record
Record Grading: Very Good Plus (VG+)
Release Year: 1973
Sleeve Grading: Very Good (VG)
Style: Free & Avantgarde, Space Jazz
Record Size: 12"
Features: Original Cover, Quadraphonic, Play Tested, Archival Sleeve, Gatefold
Genre: Jazz
Number of Audio Channels: Quad
