| Sun Ra / Secrets Of The Sun |
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| Album: | Secrets Of The Sun | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Sun Ra | Added: | Dec 2008 | |
| Label: | Atavistic/Truckstop Audio | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2009-01-18 | Pull Date: | 2009-03-22 | Charts: | Jazz |
| Week Ending: | Mar 22 | Mar 15 | Mar 8 | Mar 1 | Feb 22 | Feb 15 | Feb 8 | Feb 1 |
| Airplays: | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jan 20, 2015: | Plumbotectonics Flight To Mars | 4. | Mar 27, 2009: | Emphysema For Emphasis Solar Differentials | |
| 2. | Aug 05, 2014: | Eclectic Erudition week 06 summer '14 My Dad's Records Flight To Mars | 5. | Mar 20, 2009: | Memory Select Love In Outer Space | |
| 3. | Jan 03, 2014: | Eclectic Erudition (fill in for Ramsey) Reflects Motion | 6. | Mar 20, 2009: | Emphysema For Emphasis Solar Differentials |
| Album Review |
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| Wedge Reviewed 2009-01-11 | ||
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Music that sits between Sun Ra's more conventional, composed jazz and the way-out free stuff. Most tracks carry a familiar '60s or late '50s vibe, feeling tuneful and danceable while serving as a vehicle for some freer soloing or strange sounds (as on 2). Tracks 1 and 2 have a black-and-white sci-fi aura to them. It's a 1964 reissue from Sun Ra's "Saturn" label, plus a bonus 17-minute track. Lo-fi. No FCCs. Note the presence of a young Eddie Gale (San Jose's ambassador of jazz) on track 3. Tracks are otherwise populated by Arkestra regulars: Marshall Allen, John Gilmore, etc. 1- (4:53) Suitably sci-fi theme with a driving beat. Flute and piano solos get a bit out there. 2- (6:28) Midtempo, mellow, with weird, warbling "space bird sounds" and "space voice" and a spacey drum solo. 3- (5:26) Stern march w/free-flying tenor sax. Eddie Gale on trumpet! Settles into a jazzy groove. 4- (4:44) Laid-back, almost loungy vibe... then eerie, softly wailing woodwind solos 5- (9:07) Cool bass/drums, joined by jiggly nervous piano. Angular sax/flute theme. Becomes a cool rolling jam. 6- (2:42) Vague, ratty percussion 7- (17:35) Fairly straight jazz groove, bright, starts abruptly. Oddball piano solo, of course, followed by lots of other solos, including guitar. Lots of drums towards the end. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Friendly Galaxy | 4. | Love In Outer Space | |||
| 2. | Solar Differentials | 5. | Reflects Motion | |||
| 3. | Space Aura | 6. | Solar Symbols | |||
| 7. | Flight To Mars | |||||