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 | October 17 and November 7, 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
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [3] |
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".[4]
Track listing
- 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
- 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
- ^ Sun Ra discography Archived 2016-03-07 at the Wayback Machine accessed October 28, 2015
- ^ MPS Music website Archived 2015-07-16 at the Wayback Machine accessed October 28, 2015
- ^ a b Allmusic listing accessed October 28, 2015
- ^ AAJ Staff All About Jazz Review, April 25, 2004