Sun Ra

• GATEFOLD DIGIPACK EDITION

A long-lost performance by Sun Ra and the Arkestra – recorded in Amsterdam at the start of the 70s, when the group were brought in by avant saxophonist Hans Dulfer for a special performance!

This album marks the first-ever issue of the material, from rediscovered tapes that finally present the group on that night in all of their glory – a horn-heavy version of the Arkestra with Danny Davis, Danny Ray Thompson, Marshall Allen, Pat Patrick, and John Gilmore on reeds – as well as Kwame Hadi and Akh Tal Ebah on trumpets, June Tyson on vocals, and a surprise appearance from Alan Silva on cello, bass, viola, and violin!

Ra himself plays moog, rocksichord, piano, and the Spacemaster organ – and the group has plenty of percussion, and a rich sound that really resonates strongly in the legendary venue.

PERSONNEL:

• Sun Ra - (moog synthesizer, Harpsichord, organ, piano)
• Kwame Hadi - (trumpet)
• Akh Tal Ebah - (trumpet, mellophone)
• Abshalom Ben Shlomo - (alto sax, clarinet, drums)
• Danny Davis - (alto sax, flute, clarinet)
• Marshall Allen - (alto sax, flute, oboe, piccolo flute)
• Roger Aralamon Hazoumé - (balafon, drums)
• Danny Ray Thompson - (baritone & alto sax, flute)
• Pat Patrick - (baritone, tenor & alto sax, clarinet)
• Alejandro Blake Fearon - (bass)
• Robert Cummings - Bass clarinet)
• Alan Silva - (cello, bass, viola)
• Lex Humphries - (drums)
• James Jacson - (drums, oboe, flute)
• Augustus Browning - (english horn)
• Leroy Taylor - (oboe, bassoon, bass clarinet)
• Nimrod Hunt - (percussion)
• June Tyson - (vocals)

Live at Paradiso, Amsterdam, November 18, 1970

TRACKS:

• 01 Space is the Place
• 02 Love in Outer Space
• 03 The Ssecond Stop is Jupiter
• 04 Theme of the Stargazers
• 05 The Solar-moog Approach
• 06 Paradiso Improviso #1
• 07 Walking on the Moon
• 08 Watusa
• 09 Friendly Galaxy #2
• 10 Enlightment
• 11 It's After the End of the World
• 12 We Travel the Spaceways
• 13 Paradiso Outro