Rom 002

Sun Ra - Media Dreams, Complete Concert Milan 1978 (2008) {2CD Set ART YARD CD 002}
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© 1978, 2008 El Saturn Records / Enterplanetary Koncepts / Art Yard | ART YARD CD 002
Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz / Progressive Jazz

This is the companion to Disco 3000, made on the same classic Italian quartet tour with John Gilmore, Michael Ray (trumpet) and the minimal but perfect Luqman Ali (drums). Ra himself plays piano and electronic keyboards, including the mysterious Crumar Mainman, which Ra describes as like a piano, organ, clavichord, cello, violin and brass instruments and which also, importantly, has a facility for pre-programmed bass-lines and electronic percussion, which Ra uses constantly and to great effect in this small ensemble setting and seldom, if ever, elsewhere. The best of this collection (most of CD1) is luminous: very electronic, often rhythmical and melodic, always economical and making every sound count.