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SUN RA COSMO SUN CONNECTION LP henry cow avant jazz
Sun Ra and his Arkestra - Cosmo Sun Connection
Recommended Records RR 11
1985 UK issue
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Condition - Cover and Vinyl: excellent / like new
The cover is typical of Recommeded Records covers at the time, wonderful hand screened and unique.
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"Back in the late 70s and early 80s, Recommeded imported a great number of Saturn Records to Europe. The Arkestra would press them up to order and then I'd collect when I was in New York. We always paid in full and in advance to cover their pressing costs. Then came an occasion when there was nothing to collect; the Arkestra had urgently needed money and ours had been there - so they had spent it. I could hardly be angry - keeping the Arkestra afloat was a miracle at the best of times - but Recommended was also poor and such a loss was not really sustainable for us. In a spirit of generous compromise, Sun Ra gave us, in lieu of the unpressed LPs, the Cosmo Sun Connection mastertape, which we released in a small edition in 1985." - Chris Cutler, Recommemded Records
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"Recorded live in 1984 at one of Sun Ra's many American concerts, Cosmo Sun Connection captures the Arkestra in full big band mode, blowing up a storm that could probably be heard on Venus. The original vinyl LP was released by ReR/Recommended in 1985 via an agreement with Sun Ra's Saturn label. Long deleted and now commanding collector's prices, this is the first time that Cosmo Sun Connection has surfaced on CD. An edition that is further boosted with a series of unpublished cover photographs by Heike Liss and new descriptive notes by Chris Culter which tell the history of how the record came about. For those who have been travelling the Arkestra's musical spaceways from the beginning, or for those who have just hopped on board, Cosmo Sun Connection is an essential addition to any serious Sun Ra collection." -source: RéR promotional onesheet
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Featuring:
Sun Ra (piano, synthesiser, organ); Tyrone Hill (trombone); Marshall Alien (alto sax/flute); John Gilmore (tenor sax/timbales); Eloe Omoe (alto saxlbass clarinet); Danny Ray Thompson (Bass/flute); poss. Rollo Radford (standup electric bass); unidentified (drums); poss. Atakatune (conga)
Track listing:
Fate in a Pleasant Mood; Cosmo Journey Blues; Cosmo Sun Connection; Cosmonaut Astronaut Rendevouz; As Space Ships Approach; Pharaoh's Den
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for more info on the Arkestra
for an in depth analysis of Sun Ra's Cosmology
"Sun Ra seeks to elevate humanity beyond their current earthbound state, tied to outmoded conceptions of life and death when the potential future of immortality awaits them." -The Cosmic-Myth Equations of Sun Ra by David A. Martinelli
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(double albums and some gatefolds count as 2)
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