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BAND/ARTIST: Sun Ra
- Title: Omniverse (Expanded Edition 2021)
- Year Of Release: 2022
- Label: Enterplanetary Koncepts
- Genre: Jazz
- Quality: 16-bit/44.1kHz FLAC; 24-bit/44.1kHz FLAC
- Total Time: 00:46:04
- Total Size: 262; 499 MB
- WebSite: Album Preview
NOTE: This is a 2021 remaster of Omniverse, which is also available from Modern Harmonic on LP and CD. The CD and digital editions contain two bonus tracks (details below). The following liner notes are adapted from our 2015 five-track digital reissue of the original Saturn album.
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Omniverse, recorded in New York in 1979 and released that year on Sun Ra's Saturn label, has been gathering dust for too long. It's a fine, overlooked item in the vast Ra catalog. The tracks aren't so much compositions as they are excursions, with only a few memorable themes or recurring motifs. It's pure jazz, somewhat "inside" (for Sun Ra), with little of the aggressiveness and confrontation for which the bandleader was known. (Track 5, "Visitant of the Ninth Ultimate," is an exception.) Omniverse is a very intimate album, offering lots of reflective piano in trio, quartet, and quintet settings, with spare horns. But instead of exhibiting a keyboard showcase, Sun Ra engages in dynamic interplay with the rhythm section. Moreover, the horns are featured largely as soloists; there are few ensemble passages.
Three of the works (tracks 3, 4 and 5) exist as recordings only on this album; there are no documented concert performances of these titles. "West End Side of Magic City" (a reference to the bandleader's birth town of Birmingham, Alabama) doesn't reappear in the known repertoire for twelve years—it surfaces at a May 1991 Atlanta concert, and was reprised in August at a New York club date (for which the piece was announced from the stage as "Vita Number 5"). "The Place of Five Points" is known to have been performed at a smattering of gigs between 1985-1988.
Tracklist:
1.01 - Sun Ra - Place of Five Points (4:17)
1.02 - Sun Ra - West End Side of Magic City (1:11)
1.03 - Sun Ra - Dark Lights in a White Forest (10:42)
1.04 - Sun Ra - Omniverse (8:33)
1.05 - Sun Ra - Visitant of the Ninth Ultimate (9:25)
1.06 - Sun Ra - Over the Rainbow (Bonus track) (2:54)
1.07 - Sun Ra - The Sound Mirror (Bonus track) (9:02)
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Omniverse, recorded in New York in 1979 and released that year on Sun Ra's Saturn label, has been gathering dust for too long. It's a fine, overlooked item in the vast Ra catalog. The tracks aren't so much compositions as they are excursions, with only a few memorable themes or recurring motifs. It's pure jazz, somewhat "inside" (for Sun Ra), with little of the aggressiveness and confrontation for which the bandleader was known. (Track 5, "Visitant of the Ninth Ultimate," is an exception.) Omniverse is a very intimate album, offering lots of reflective piano in trio, quartet, and quintet settings, with spare horns. But instead of exhibiting a keyboard showcase, Sun Ra engages in dynamic interplay with the rhythm section. Moreover, the horns are featured largely as soloists; there are few ensemble passages.
Three of the works (tracks 3, 4 and 5) exist as recordings only on this album; there are no documented concert performances of these titles. "West End Side of Magic City" (a reference to the bandleader's birth town of Birmingham, Alabama) doesn't reappear in the known repertoire for twelve years—it surfaces at a May 1991 Atlanta concert, and was reprised in August at a New York club date (for which the piece was announced from the stage as "Vita Number 5"). "The Place of Five Points" is known to have been performed at a smattering of gigs between 1985-1988.
Tracklist:
1.01 - Sun Ra - Place of Five Points (4:17)
1.02 - Sun Ra - West End Side of Magic City (1:11)
1.03 - Sun Ra - Dark Lights in a White Forest (10:42)
1.04 - Sun Ra - Omniverse (8:33)
1.05 - Sun Ra - Visitant of the Ninth Ultimate (9:25)
1.06 - Sun Ra - Over the Rainbow (Bonus track) (2:54)
1.07 - Sun Ra - The Sound Mirror (Bonus track) (9:02)
Year 2022 | Jazz | FLAC / APE | HD & Vinyl
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