When Angels Speak of Love
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Studio album by Sun Ra and his Myth Science Arkestra | ||||
Released | 1966 [1] | |||
Recorded | 1963, New York [1] | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 45.50 | |||
Label | Saturn Evidence | |||
Producer | Alton Abraham | |||
Sun Ra and his Myth Science Arkestra chronology | ||||
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When Angels Speak of Love is a music album by the American Jazz musician Sun Ra and his Myth Science Arkestra. Originally released in 1966 on Sun Ra's own Saturn label, the record would have only been available by mail order or sold at Arkestra concerts, and is one of the rarest of all Saturn releases.[1] The record was reissued on compact disc by Evidence in 2000.
Next stop Mars
'[When Angels Speak of Love] was considered a bizarre record when it was heard even three years later, made more bizarre by extreme echo, horns straining for the shrillest notes possible, rhythms layered, their polyrhythmic effect exaggerated by massive reverberation (which was abruptly turned off and on). Next Stop Mars is the centrepiece of the album, a very long work which opens with a space chant, followed by Allen and Gilmore taking chances on their horns beyond what almost any other musician would dare at that time. Sun Ra played behind them, again relentlessly spinning around a single tonal center with two-handed independence, then rumbling thunderously at the bottom of the keyboard against Boykins's bass, a clangor made heavier by electronic enhancement.' John F Szwed [4]
Track listing
12" Vinyl
All songs by Sun Ra
Side A:
- "Celestial Fantasy" - (5.55)
- "The Idea Of It All" - (7.32)
- "Ecstasy of Being" - (9.53)
Side B:
- "When Angels Speak of Love" - (4.34)
- "Next Stop Mars" - (17.56)
Musicians [1]
- Sun Ra - Piano, Clavioline, Gong
- Walter Miller - Trumpet
- Marshall Allen - Oboe, Alto Saxophone, Percussion
- Danny Davis - Alto Sax
- John Gilmore - Tenor Sax, Percussion
- Pat Patrick - Baritone Saxophone, Percussion
- Robert Cummings - Bass Clarinet
- Ronnie Boykins - Bass
- Clifford Jarvis - Drums
- Tommy Hunter - Percussion, Reverb
- Ensemble vocals
Recorded entirely at the Choreographer's Workshop, New York (the Arkestra's rehearsal space) in 1963.[1]
Notes
- ^ a b c d e Sun Ra's Discography, R Campbell
- ^ Allmusic review
- ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1356. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
- ^ Szwed, Space is the Place, John Szwed, Mojo, 2000. p199
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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