Sun Ra And His Myth Science Arkestra - We Travel the Spaceways, Bad & Beautiful (1992)

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Title: We Travel the Spaceways, Bad & Beautiful
Year Of Release: 1992
Label: Evidence[ECD 22038-2]
Genre: Jazz, Free Jazz
Quality: FLAC (tracks + .cue,log,scans)
Total Time: 55:19
Total Size: 308 MB(+3%)
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Tracklist

We Travel the Spaceways (1967)
01. Interplanetary Music (2:44)
02. Eve (3:11)
03. We Travel the Spaceways (3:25)
04. Tapestry from an Asteroid (2:11)
05. Space Loneliness (4:51)
06. New Horizons (3:04)
07. Velvet (4:38)
Bad & Beautiful (1972)
08. The Bad and the Beautiful (2:49)
09. Ankh (5:14)
10. Just in Time (3:52)
11. Search Light Blues (5:41)
12. Exotic Two (4:51)
13. On the Blue Side (5:32)
14. And This Is My Beloved (3:16)

Much like Evidence's Fate in a Pleasant Mood/When Sun Comes Out two-fer, We Travel the Spaceways/Bad and Beautiful also features one album from the Chicago period and one from the New York period. The difference is that this New York session (Bad and Beautiful) is probably the first recording made in New York, and the overall sound is more closely tied to the Chicago sound than the later New York material, where rhythm and percussion dominated any melodic elements. The late Chicago period had the Arkestra still swinging, but moving beyond their swing and bop origins into more uncharted territory. We Travel the Spaceways marks the first appearance of the Space Chant, songs that would practically define the Arkestra in later decades. The pairing of We Travel the Spaceways and Bad and Beautiful captures an important transitional phase for the Arkestra, and makes a good starting point for the novice interested in Sun Ra.~Sean Westergaard