Definitive live recording?
Did the world really need a new Sun Ra re-issue? Not unless its really good. This one is not merely good, its bloody brilliant.
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A fascinating extension to the Nothing Is release
Interesting documentation of full Arkestra concert sets just after the seminal Heliocentric Worlds/Magic City studio recordings. Some of the material is marred slightly by tape wobble, presumably forcing their omission from the original LP release, but some of these are exceptional, especially the version of "Velvet" on disk 1. Interesting too to compare the developing repertoire at a mid-point between the Chicago "Music from Tomorrow's World" and the well-documented early 1970s tours.
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