Sun Ra

• GATEFOLD VINYL EDITION

• 4 STARS ALL MUSIC GUIDE

Travelogue through a cybernetical soundscape! The future rendered here by Ra seems more dystopian than utopian, and these 1975 guided improvisations are imbued with an underlying violence, alternate twists, bank turns, headchoppers, loops, rolls, sidewinders and drops. It’s a dark & glorious journey. Featuring the debut of the complete version of “Extension Out,” Pathways has been exquisitely mastered from the four-track session reel and includes an insert offering an enlightening glimpse at Ra & co.’s plans for their major label lucre.

PERSONNEL:

• Sun Ra - Minimoog, electric vibraphone, organ
• John Gilmore - tenor sax, timbales
• Marshall Allen - alto sax, oboe
• Danny Davis - alto sax
• Danny Ray Thompson - baritone sax
• Akh Tal Ebah - mellophone, space dimension mellophone
• James Jacson - Infinity drum
• Lamont McClamb [Kwame Hadi]- trumpet
• Leroy Taylor [Eloe Omoe]- bass clarinet
• Russell Branch [Odun]- percussion
• Stanley Morgan [Atakatune] --percussion
• Eugene Brennan - percussion
• Ronnie Boykins- bass
• Clifford Jarvis - drums

Recorded in New York, 1973

TRACKS:

• SIDE A
• A1. Pathways to Unknown Worlds

• SIDE B
• B1. Extension Out (complete version)
• B2. Cosmo-Media