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| | Space Is the Place | | | Music Artist : | | Sun Ra and His Astro Intergalactic Infinity Arkestra | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Grp Records | | Release Date : | | 1998-03-10 | | Store Price : | | $14.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $14.98 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Space Is the Place
2. Images
3. Discipline
4. Sea of Sounds
5. Rocket Number Nine
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 SPACE IS A GOOD PLACE TO START!
Submitted on: 2009-09-17 |
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| For those about to leap into the Sun Ra catalogue, this is one of the essentials. The expansive title track is one of the most ambitious things Ra committed to vinyl-- and it works, despite its seemingly unwieldy length. It's hard to write about an album which needs to be heard to be believed... certainly it's one of the best jazz records of the 1970s. And two decades later-- Blur quoted from it! |
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Not a Spinoff, Not the Soundtrack
Submitted on: 2008-09-06 |
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| This is a CD release of the album "Space is the Place," originally on Blue Thumb. It is neither the soundtrack to the film of the same name, nor a spinoff. It predates the film by a couple of years. It is an essential Sun Ra release from the 1970s. |
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Sun Ra in glorious orbit!
Submitted on: 2007-11-26 |
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Space Is The Place opens with its title track, a twenty-minute freeform freak-jazz-psychedelic-soul-funk meltdown, a thundering acid-bop meltdown full of squirming melodies, dramatically repurposed instruments, head-splittingly chaotic vocals, solos that seem to spin off in multiple directions at once, and layers of percussion that'll make you dance and have a seizure at the same time. It sounds primitive and futuristic and progressive and playful and high-minded and juvenile and logical and psychotic all at once, and it's a masterpiece. And that's just the first song on the album.
Flip the record over, and you've got four more gems. "Images" is the sound of post-bop teetering on the edge of free jazz. Led by Sun Ra's oceanic piano, the song swerves from a gorgeous theme into regions of near atonality before spiraling back into beauty again, with the kind of high-minded grace reserved for geniuses. "Discipline" is a rolling, apocalyptic drone, and "Sea Of Sounds" is sheer scorched earth freeform noise. "Rocket Number Nine" is willfully cheesy, utterly irresistible space-age jazz pop.
Classic freak jazz. Get it. |
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 Get the Soundtrack
Submitted on: 2006-07-30 |
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| This is a spin off of some sorts. The soundtrack to the Film (of the same name) is a really good release. This album is good but the soundtrack is one of the best of his CD's. RELESE SUB UNDERGROUND ON CD with something else SATURN. |
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Outer Space
Submitted on: 2006-07-17 |
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Not being a great conoisseur of Sun Ra's work, I still feel confident enough to say that, in spite of psychodelic "spices" that might seem trendy, in spite of "etno" components, this CD shows deep and profound jazz feeling on the part of the band leader and his musicians.
And even if youre not a true jazz fan you still might enoy this eccentric music. |
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