Sun Ra - Paradiso Amsterdam 1970 (2023)

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Title: Paradiso Amsterdam 1970
Year Of Release: 2023
Label: Nederlands Jazz Archief
Genre: Avant-garde Jazz, Space-Age
Quality: FLAC (tracks+booklet)
Total Time: 01:21:10
Total Size: 594 MB
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Tracklist:

1. Space Is The Place (11:03)
2. Love In Outer Space (11:07)
3. The Second Stop Is Jupiter (02:16)
4. Theme From The Stargazers (00:44)
5. The Solar-Moog Approach (08:51)
6. Paradiso Improviso #1 (09:42)
7. Walking On The Moon (07:45)
8. Watusa (00:53)
9. Friendly Galaxy #2 (06:49)
10. Enlightment (03:07)
11. It’s After The End Of The World (01:19)
12. We Travel The Spaceways (04:03)
13. Paradiso Outro (13:31)

Tip! Space is the place! That classic piece - in a historically early version without lyrics - opens the album Paradiso Amsterdam 1970, which shows how the Netherlands was first introduced to Afrofuturism. A pivotal moment in the Dutch jazz experience. It was always thought that the recordings of the long-awaited first concert that the Sun Ra Arkestra gave in the Netherlands were useless for an album release.
After all, the entire Arkestra, booked by Hans Dulfer, marched among the massive crowd at pop temple Paradiso on 18 November 1970. As was their custom, they were rarely on stage where the microphones were neatly set up. The Nederlands Jazz Archief traced the complete set of recording tapes and compiled an album on which the atmosphere of 53 years ago is immediately tangible.