Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy
Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy | ||||
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Studio album by Sun Ra and his Myth Science Arkestra | ||||
Released | 1967 [1] | |||
Recorded | 1963, New York [1] | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 31.53 | |||
Label | Saturn Evidence | |||
Producer | Alton Abraham | |||
Sun Ra and his Myth Science Arkestra chronology | ||||
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Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy is an album by the American Jazz musician Sun Ra and his Myth Science Arkestra recorded in 1963, but not released until 1967 on Sun Ra's own Saturn label. The record was reissued on compact disc by Evidence in 2000.
Originally released in a sleeve with a Sun Ra doodle, the better known cover, designed by Richard Pedreguera, was in place by 1969.[1] Pedreguera also designed the sleeve for The Nubians of Plutonia at around the same time.
Reception and legacy
The album has been discussed within the context of anticipating psychedelia[4][5] or pointing towards the funk of George Clinton;
'Clinton's astral ritual seems as inspired by the Nation of Islam as it is by Sun Ra, and when asked about the Ra in 1979, Clinton said, "This boy was definitely out to lunch - the same place I eat at."[6]
When reissued on CD, Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow was added to the disc.
Track listing
12" Vinyl
All songs by Sun Ra
Side A:
- "And Otherness" – (5.10)
- "Thither and Yon" – (4.01)
- "Adventure-Equation" - (8.26)
Side B:
- "Moon Dance" – (6.34)
- "Voice of Space" – (7.42)
Musicians
- Sun Ra – Hammond B-3 Organ, Clavioline, Percussion
- Marshall Allen – Oboe, Percussion
- Danny Davis – Alto Sax, Flute
- John Gilmore – Bass Clarinet, Percussion
- possibly Bernard Pettaway – Bass Trombone
- Pat Patrick – Baritone Saxophone
- Robert Cummings – Bass Clarinet
- Ronnie Boykins – Bass
- Clifford Jarvis – Drums
- James Jacson – Percussion
- Tommy Hunter – Percussion, Reverb
- Ensemble vocals
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First two tracks recorded at the Choreographer's Workshop, New York (the Arkestra's rehearsal space) in 1963.[1] Adventure-Equation, Moon Dance and Voice of Space were recorded at the Tip Top club, Brooklyn, in the same year, at 10 in the morning whilst Tommy Hunter was playing nights there with Sarah McLawler's trio, since the club provided access to a Hammond B-3 organ gratis.[4] Hunter remembers some neighbourhood kids running in during the recording and shouting, "These guys don't know how to play!".[4]
Notes
- ^ a b c d e Sun Ra's Discography, R Campbell
- ^ CD AllMusic review
- ^ Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 7. MUZE. p. 843.
- ^ a b c Space is the Place, John F Szwed, Mojo, 2000, p200
- ^ Rolling Stone Overview
- ^ George Clinton quoted in Space is the Place, John F Szwed, Mojo, 2000, p264
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Arkestra members
- John Gilmore
- Julian Priester
- Pat Patrick
- Charles Davis
- Victor Sproles
- Marshall Allen
- Ronnie Boykins
- James Spaulding
- Phil Cohran
- Clifford Jarvis
- Lex Humphries
- Michael Ray
- June Tyson
- Ahmed Abdullah
- Danny Ray Thompson
- Jazz by Sun Ra
- Super-Sonic Jazz
- Sound of Joy
- Visits Planet Earth
- The Nubians of Plutonia
- Jazz in Silhouette
- Sound Sun Pleasure!!
- Interstellar Low Ways
- Fate in a Pleasant Mood
- Holiday for Soul Dance
- Angels and Demons at Play
- We Travel the Space Ways
- The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra
- Bad and Beautiful
- Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow
- Secrets of the Sun
- When Sun Comes Out
- Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy
- When Angels Speak of Love
- Other Planes of There
- The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume One
- The Magic City
- The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume Two
- Strange Strings
- Monorails and Satellites
- Atlantis
- Space Is the Place (soundtrack)
- Space Is The Place
- Pathways to Unknown Worlds
- Cosmos
- Deep Purple
- Some Blues But Not the Kind That's Blue
- New Steps
- Other Voices, Other Blues
- Visions
- Lanquidity
- Sleeping Beauty
- Strange Celestial Road
- Reflections in Blue
- Hours After
- Blue Delight
- Somewhere Else
- Purple Night
- Mayan Temples
- Featuring Pharoah Sanders & Black Harold
- Nothing Is
- Nuits de la Fondation Maeght
- It's After the End of the World
- Black Myth/Out in Space
- Live in Egypt 1
- Nidhamu
- Horizon
- Live In Montreux
- Unity
- Live from Soundscape
- I, Pharaoh
- Sunrise in Different Dimensions
- Cosmo Omnibus Imagiable Illusion
- Thunder of the Gods