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- Genre: Jazz
- Style: Avant-garde, Film Soundtracks
- Label: Evidence Records
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The fully restored soundtrack to a jaw-dropping Super Fly-meets-The Seventh Seal Sun Ra movie (a must-see recently released on DVD) is a scintillating cross-section of early '70s Ra, when rock cred via shout-outs by Michigan proto-punkers the MC5 led to some historic Ann Arbor Blues & Jazz Fest bookings. Ra began staging "cosmo-drama" pageants (complete with light shows) of blazing full-band fanfares, high-energy "outside" horn blowing, dense Afro-percussive workouts, Ra sermonizing over band vamps between theatrical organ and Moog solos (his metallic, dentist-drill-from-outer-space approach infinitely more attuned to the then-new synth's true sonic potential than anyone else's at the time; he also beat Rick Wakeman to the caped-multi-keyboard thing), and a new emphasis on disarmingly catchy vocal numbers. Ra hired four singer-dancers, the "Space Ethnic Voices," including June Tyson, a striking vocalist who shines here, hitting an intense peak on the spiritual "Blackman."
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| 01. |  |
It's After the End of the World |
3:28 |
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| 02. | |
Under Different Stars |
3:58 |
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| 03. | |
Discipline 33 |
3:24 |
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| 04. | |
Watusa |
7:14 |
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| 05. | |
Calling Planet Earth |
3:07 |
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| 06. | |
I Am the Alter-Destiny |
1:12 |
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| 07. | |
Satellites Are Spinning |
2:35 |
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| 08. | |
Cosmic Forces |
3:11 |
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| 09. | |
Outer Spaceways Incorporated |
3:03 |
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| 10. | |
We Travel the Spaceways |
2:31 |
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| 11. | |
The Overseer |
3:08 |
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| 12. | |
Blackman/Love in Outer Space |
16:55 |
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| 13. | |
Mysterious Crystal |
5:55 |
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| 14. | |
I Am the Brother of the Wind |
5:56 |
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| 15. | |
We'll Wait for You |
4:15 |
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| 16. | |
Space Is the Place |
4:23 |
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16 Total Tracks, 74:15 Total Length
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