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| | Lanquidity | | | Music Artist : | | Sun Ra | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Evidence | | Release Date : | | 2000-09-26 | | Store Price : | | $16.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $16.98 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Lanquidity
2. Where Pathways Meet
3. That's How I Feel
4. Twin Stars of Thence
5. There Are Other Worlds (They Have Not Told You Of)
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 I dunno....
Submitted on: 2009-11-07 |
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maybe it me. It doesn't sound very creative or compelling. There are so many other great Ra discs that move me, this one seems kind of boring, and, rare for him, dated.
Although, driving to the supermarket early one morning for milk, bleary eyed and foggy-minded, it came on and sounded pretty good. Otherwise, I have too many other Ra products to care much about this one. |
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 Musical Genius
Submitted on: 2009-01-15 |
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Sun Ra is a musical genius. I am convinced that he has intimate knowledge of outer space. When I listened to his rendition of "Motherless Child" I could feel the struggle, mental frustration and disconnect from socity that many African Americans have felt in relation to global racism. There is a point in the song in which it sounds as though the collective manacled mind, in its intense struggle to escape its baneful condition, wonders into outer space. I urge anyone to listen to this unique interpretation.
As I listened to other music by Sun Ra on the train to work, I would close my eyes and relax. After a few weeks I started to see faint, adumbrated images in my mind. These images always started with an image of a red dot that turned into the sun. After a while these images turned into pictures of the sun over a skyline of buildings, usually by a large body of water. There were even times after I saw the sun over the skyline that I started to see flashes of jazz artists in rapid succession. I told my sister about this and she said he is probably leaving his calling card with you. You must have made a connection with him.
Listening to "Heliocentric Worlds" was a revelation to me also. I would listen to this album over and over again at night as I fell to sleep. There were a couple of times when I felt my body disappear and I blended in with the blackness around me. I thought to myself "this is what Sun Ra is doing if you listen with an open mind." He will mentally transport you to space (inner and outer space) if you listen with open heart and mind. I had no expectations as to what would happen to me when I started listening to his music. I did not even consider the fact that anything would happen to me when I listened. I just was listening to enjoy the music.
Another time when I listened to "Heliocentric Worlds" I felt a burst of energy at the bottom of my spine. I felt it move up my spine and burst inside my body as thougth there were stars inside of me. I felt as though I was a universe with stars and satalites floating around inside of me. This only lasted a few seconds but it was intense.
I don't mean to sound delusional and New Agey. I don't even mean to exaggerate. I did have these experiences and can only attribute them to listening to Sun Ra's music. I believe it has great spiritual power. |
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Different But Still Excellent Ra
Submitted on: 2008-10-28 |
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| This record splits Sun Ra fans down the middle: some of them like it and others hate it. After all, there's "Where Pathways Meet", which sounds like some detective TV show theme, there's some new age-style business on some tracks, and what's that nutty wah-wah pedal doing on the record? Mr. Ra definitely breaks from his usual sonics on "Lanquidity", so why can't I stop playing this record? Maybe after all is said and done its' still a very solid package of great jazz music. His dreamy keyboards, especially the Crumar synthesizer, create gorgeous tapestries of sound that truly attain an effortlessly intergalactic world for your ears. Although the music is low-key and dreamy I return to this one again and again, and the wah-wah pedals eventually make sense! |
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The Sun Sparkles On Funk
Submitted on: 2008-09-22 |
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The jazz-fusion revolution was in overdrive by 1978 and the sessions which produced this album finds Sun Ra exploring free jazz within the fusion blueprint.
Heavy into hot grooves, Sun Ra's performance on synthesizers is bolstered by an electric bass, two guitars and three drummers, along with sounds from the legendary horn section. Arguably one of the most accessible releases in his vast discography, Sun Ra sparkles by delivering waves of funky rays.
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Sun Ra - Misunderstood Genius
Submitted on: 2007-05-12 |
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Sun Ra is really one of a kind in Jazz, he was a pioneer for Avant Garde just as much as he was a colourful and absurd personality that dressed in Exotic or futuristic clothes and claimed he was born on another planet. By most accounts he was born as Herman Sonny Blount 1914 in Birmingham, AL and came to promise in the 50's with his exprimental music that would become an unique take on Avant Garde Jazz soon enough. Few Jazz critics ever took him serious cause of his personality and lifestyle and his music was very controvercial for Jazz Purists during his whole recording history. In particular the album "Atlantic" from 1967 released just 2 years prior to Miles Davis "Bit*es" Brew" when he would be exploring mythical music from the past in what was an indescribable sound of drums and organs. Regardless of Sun Ra was exploring music from the past or futuristic space music, his music is diffrent then anything else and it's both creative and odd. Sun Ra's only interest in life was music, he would be recording or playing with his band from morning to night and for a man like him he made a huge catalogue of music, some really good music, some less interesting but always worth to check out.
"Lanquidity" from 1978, Released about 10 years after the Avant Garde/Fusion hype that came in the 60's is perhaps Sun Ra's best album and most accessible aswell. Apart from most musicians Sun Ra's creative peak never ended, he would still be recording music to the last years of his life but around 1978 he was recording some of the best music of his life. "Lanquidity" is a recommended album in the sense that it isn't as absurd or unpenetratable as some of his music. It's very meliodic with an almost trance feeling. It's a Fusion inspired Jazz-Funk album with 5 songs that are quite coherant and as usual his big band appearence makes the sound of it very fascinating and grand. Opener and title a midtempo track almost sounds like in a trance, Sun Ra plays his electric piano while saxophonist John Gilmore jumps in with a great solo and all of the others deliver the best of their exotic instruments. All brilliantly produced and coherant. "Where Pathways Meet" is quite diffrent, it's a funky number in fast pace with Trumpet in focus. This one is not as revolutionary as some of the other music, but a real swagger. The third song is really beautiful, it's called "That's How I Feel" one of my personal favorite Sun Ra compositions. It feautures horns and a great electric piano melody that goes on for the entire song. A Bit simular to the opener. "Twin Stars Of Thense" is brilliant aswell, it's also slightly funky with both piano and horn solos. Less meliodic, but nice Fusion recording. "There are Other Worlds" feauture the voice of June Tyson and with some occasional horn sound here and there but the song itself is very mysterious, ending up like a long trance more then an actual song. But this was the whole point cause Sun Ra wants you to pay attention to small details in his music and feeling it's groove. Most songs here are about 6 to 10 minutes so they aren't as long as some of Miles David Fusion recordings, thus it's easy to get into the album + it's mostly meliodic and accessable to most people.
Needless to say, This is perhaps Sun Ra's best album and a good way to get to know him. The man, the myth the legend Sun Ra who by most people atleast recognozed as a musical genius, a bandleader, composer, producer and extremly multitalented and creative musician. In my oppinion, one of the most fascinating persons in Music History. If you're further interested in his personality and music there are some documentaries available that covers some of his life and plenty of good albums and articles to check out too. |
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