Sun Ra - When Angels Speak of Love (Remastered 2019)
Artist: Sun Ra
Title: When Angels Speak of Love
Year Of Release: 2019
Label: Cosmic Myth Records
Genre: Jazz, Avant-Garde
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 67:53 min
Total Size: 296 MB
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:Title: When Angels Speak of Love
Year Of Release: 2019
Label: Cosmic Myth Records
Genre: Jazz, Avant-Garde
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 67:53 min
Total Size: 296 MB
WebSite: Album Preview
1. Celestial Fantasy
2. The Idea of It All
3. Ecstasy of Being
4. When Angels Speak of Love
5. Next Stop Mars
6. Celestial Fantasy (Stereo)
7. When Angels Speak of Love (Stereo)
8. Next Stop Mars (Stereo Edit)
Originally issued back in 1966 'When Angels Speak of Love' shows Sun Ra and his ever-morphing Arkestra on top 'out' form, as he plays gong and pianoforte against cavernous echo effects which become yet another instrument in his repertoire. The liner notes comment on how conscious he was that his music wasn't 'free' ('because nobody is free'), but you'd be forgiven for lumping this in with Albert Ayler and such other greats of free music. It's odd but in the last twenty years we've seen Sun Ra increasingly mentioned when talking about psychedelic music and when listening to a record as open minded and exploratory as 'When Angels Speak of Love' it does indeed transcend the jazz genre and become something else entirely, maybe having more in common with psychedelic or progressive rock than one might usually think. Sure Sun Ra was on his own plain, doing things his own way, but his compositions and improvisations have had so much influence on the genres we are now obsessed with - Sunburned Hand of the Man, Vibracathedral Orchestra, No Neck Blues Band, it would be hard to imagine any of these guys without the great Sun Ra having pioneered the sound early on. A gorgeous collection of still extraordinary and totally out-of-time music...