Space is The Place

A celestial journey is just what Sun Ra and his Arkestra have created with Space is the Place. Sun Ra’s opus is at its simplest, a trip through outer bound melodies! Planetary bodies, eras in time, crystals, space caravans… Allow yourself to envision or feel a world away! Featuring an album's worth of previously unissued recordings from the same soundtrack sessions! These newly discovered tracks are heavy on the prose of Sun Ra, as he and June Tyson bestow countless bits of information and inspiration onto the listener.

Space Is The Place is the 1973 album by jazz pianist Sun Ra. Since the original vinyl record was mixed and released only in quadraphonic (in stereo), this has been said to be the quad mix so you have the decoders, you will be able to hear it as originally intended. This CD was released on 10 March, 1998 by Impulse.

Call it what you will—Blaxploitation flick, Afrofuturistic science fiction, low-budget surrealism, Black-power manifesto—SPACE IS THE PLACE is the only film written by, scored by, and starring Sun Ra. Directed by John Coney, produced by Jim Newman, filmed in 1972, and released in 1974, it remains an iconic part of Ra's deeper cultural legacy and a touchstone for his fans. In too many cases, the title (also the title of an unrelated 1973 album on Blue Thumb) is the only thing uninformed Earthlings know about Sun Ra. It has become the Ra ur-cliché, a not-so-secret handshake. If all you know about Sun Ra is "Space is the Place," you don't know Ra.

A celestial journey is just what Sun Ra and his Arkestra have created with Space is the Place. Sun Ra’s opus is at its simplest, a trip through outer bound melodies! Planetary bodies, eras in time, crystals, space caravans… Allow yourself to envision or feel a world away!Featuring an album's worth of previously unissued recordings from the same soundtrack sessions! These newly discovered tracks are heavy on the prose of Sun Ra, as he and June Tyson bestow countless bits of information and inspiration onto the listener.

Il a fallu à Strup dix ans pour retrouver le chemin de la Terre -Mère. Cette Odyssée astrale a inspiré aux laborantins un album-concept boulversé. Les 10 titres de ce voyage homérique sont façonnés par les errances, les soubresauts de ce « retour à Ithaque » moderne. En faisant le point dans l’immensité galactique, ces Ulysses ont captés les ondes 90’s de Brighton (Massive Attack, Tricky) et les ont insérées à leur A.D.N. « Electro-Prog-Rock ». Optimiste et solaire, le périple pop se durcit à l’approche de notre planète. Les turbulences de l’entrée atmosphérique se font sentir. Le vaisseau Strup est en approche !!

This is the sixteenth CD by Carlo Actis Dato for Leo Records with his regular quartet: Beppe Di Filippo on soprano & alto saxes, Matteo Ravizza on bass, Daniele Bertone on drums and Actis Dato on tenor & barotone saxes and bass clarinet. One look at title 'Earth is the place' makes you think of Sun Ra's 'Space is the place. ' Consisting of 11 pieces by Actis Dato, you have 70 minutes of carnival, joy, exuberance, sun and fun. The Italians are unbeatable at creating the atmosphere of total happiness. Do yourself a favour, cheer yourself up!

Sun Ra and the Arkestra played a week of eleven concerts at the Detroit Jazz Center. The shows were organized and soundboard recorded by Rick Steiger (a collaborator of John Sinclair). On New Year's Eve the Arkestra performed nearly a hundred Sun Ra compositions in three different sets. Remastered from the original cassette soundboard recordings by Christopher Eddy. Limited edition of 500 copies, originally a 28 cd-r set from 2007 in an edition of 400.

In early 1973, thanks to the intrepid persuasion of jazz producer Ed Michel, Sun Ra signed a licensing agreement with the prestigious jazz imprint Impulse (then part of ABC/Paramount Records) to reissue catalog titles from Ra's proprietary Saturn label, as well as some new Arkestra recordings. Michel had produced Ra's most commercially successful album, Space is the Place, in 1972 for Blue Thumb Records, and he figured Ra was finally primed for a wider Earthly audience. The Impulse deal struck with Ra and manager Alton Abraham specified a cap of 50 albums — ten annually for five years — although all masters were subject to approval by Impulse and theoretically less than 50 could be issued.

Although The Space Age Is Here to Stay is technically a compilation, chances are good some of these tracks will be new to even the most serious Ra fans, as six of the 16 tracks are previously unreleased and those that have been released are largely from lesser-known albums. The tracks span from 1958 to 1985, with each decade represented by at least two tunes. The songs range from jazz standards to space declamations to pseudo-gospel call-and-response stompers, and feature not only Sun Ra but the great June Tyson, John Gilmore, and others. By and large, these tracks are on the obscure side and the songs that may be familiar are represented by different versions. "Enlightenment" gets a circus organ arrangement and vocals by Gilmore and Tyson.