Live from Soundscape (Sun Ra album)

Live from Soundscape is a live album by jazz composer, bandleader and keyboardist Sun Ra and his Arkestra recorded in New York City in 1979 and released on the Japanese DIW label in 1994.[1] Initial pressings of the album contained a bonus CD featuring a lecture by Sun Ra.

Live from Soundscape
Live album by
Sun Ra Arkestra
ReleasedJuly 21, 1994
RecordedNovember 10 & 11, 1979
VenueSoundscape, NYC
GenreFree jazz
Length140:36
LabelDIW
DIW 388
ProducerVerna Gillis
Sun Ra chronology
Sleeping Beauty
(1979)
Live from Soundscape
(1994)
Of Mythic Worlds
(1979)

Reception

The Allmusic review by Sean Westergaard awarded the album 3 stars stating "Sound quality, while good, is not perfect, gearing the release more towards the serious fan".[2]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Sun Ra except where noted

Disc One:

  1. " Astro Black" – 11:52
  2. "Where There Is No Sun" – 4:05
  3. "Living in the Space Age" – 2:03
  4. "Keep Your Sunny Side Up" (Lew Brown, Buddy DeSylva, Ray Henderson ) – 2:52
  5. "D.27" – 12:36
  6. "Watusi" – 12:23
  7. "Space Is the Place" – 7:56
  8. "We Travel the Space Ways " – 7:33
  9. "On Jupiter, the Skies are Always Blue" – 6:40

Disc Two:

  1. The Possibility of Altered Destiny – 72:40

Personnel

References

  1. Sun Ra discography Archived March 20, 2015, at the Wayback Machine accessed July 3, 2014
  2. Westergaard, S., Allmusic Review accessed July 3, 2014
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