It's After the End of the World
| It's After the End of the World | ||||
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| Live album by Sun Ra and His Intergalactic Research Arkestra | ||||
| Released | 1970 | |||
| Recorded | 17 October and 7 November 1970 Donaueschingen Music Festival and Berlin Jazz Festival | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 49:22 | |||
| Label | MPS MPS 15289 | |||
| Producer | Joachim E. Berendt | |||
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It's After the End of the World (subtitled Live at the Donaueschingen and Berlin Festivals) is a live album by American composer, bandleader and keyboardist Sun Ra recorded in 1970 in Donaueschingen and Berlin and released on the MPS label in 1970.[1][2] The complete concerts were released in 1998 as a 2-CD set entitled Black Myth/Out in Space.
Reception[edit]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [3] |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [4] |
Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars.[3] All About Jazz observed "this gem ideally captures Sun Ra and His Intergalactic (Research) Arkestra at its most otherworldly self. ...such a recording as this offers the next best thing to but a sampling of what it must have been like to experience the path that Ra offered his listeners in a live concert, perhaps the most uninhibited platform for his musical message".[5]
Track listing[edit]
- All compositions by Sun Ra
- "Strange Dreams – Strange Worlds – Black Myth / It's After the End of the World" – 14:40
- "Black Forest Myth" – 9:15
- "Watusi, Egyptian March" – 2:48
- "Myth Versus Reality (The Myth-Science Approach) / Angelic Proclamation / Out in Space" – 18:22
- "Duos" – 4:42
Personnel[edit]
- Sun Ra – Farfisa organ, Hohner clavinet, piano, Rocksichord, Spacemaster organ, Minimoog, Hohner electra, vocals
- Kwame Hadi – trumpet
- Akh Tal Ebah – mellophone, trumpet
- John Gilmore – tenor saxophone, percussion
- Marshall Allen – alto saxophone, flute, oboe, piccolo, percussion
- Pat Patrick – baritone saxophone, tenor saxophone, alto saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet, flute, drum
- Danny Davis – alto saxophone, flute, clarinet
- Abshalom Ben Shlomo – alto saxophone, flute, clarinet
- Danny Ray Thompson – baritone saxophone, alto saxophone, flute
- Leroy Taylor – oboe, bass clarinet
- Robert Cummings – bass clarinet
- Augustus Browning – English horn
- Alan Silva – violin, viola, cello, bass
- Alejandro Blake Fearon – bass
- Lex Humphries – drums
- James Jackson – percussion, oboe, flute
- Nimrod Hunt – hand drums
- Hazoume – fireeater, dance, African percussion
- Math Samba, Ife Tayo – dance, percussion
- June Tyson – vocals
- Richard Wilkinson – stereo light-sound coordination
References[edit]
- ^ Sun Ra discography Archived 7 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine accessed 28 October 2015
- ^ MPS Music website Archived 16 July 2015 at the Wayback Machine accessed 28 October 2015
- ^ a b Allmusic listing accessed 28 October 2015
- ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1361. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
- ^ AAJ Staff All About Jazz Review, 25 April 2004