Label: Corbett vs. Dempsey

LP版にはボーナストラック1曲が追加されています!!サン・ラが提示したを宇宙思想を軸とした新録音と過去の作品を織り交ぜたV.A作[Music is a Message From Space]。参加メンバーが素晴らしく、まずは1950年代にシカゴの自宅でサン・ラ自身が録音したアカペラ曲[I Don't Believe in Love]に始まり、フランスのジャズ・ギタリストRaymond Boniによる強烈な即興ソロ、Jason Adasiewiczの圧倒的ヴィブラフォン演奏、KompaktのオーナーであるWolfgang Voigtのサンプリングを重ね合わせた4つの[Sun Ra Loop]、そしてJoe McPheeによる1970年のテナー・サックス&シンセサイザーによる多重録音の名曲[Cosmic Love]で締め括るという最高の編成。ジャケットは、クラフトワークの70年代名盤のデザインを手掛けたEmil Schultが担当。











Music is a Message From Space is a bracing nine-track album (with an additional track available on the vinyl version) featuring new and archival recordings all orbiting around the intergalactic soundscape introduced by Sun Ra. Ra's own a capella track "I Don't Believe in Love," recorded by Ra at home in Chicago during the 1950s, kicks the program off. This intimate private recording is followed by two intense new solo improvisations by French guitarist Raymond "Moncho" Boni, one acoustic and one electric, inspired by seeing the Arkestra preparing for a gig in Arles in 1976. The first side wraps up with Jason Adasiewicz's riveting unaccompanied vibraphone workout on Ra's "Lanquidity" and "Where Pathways Meet," both compositions from the LP Lanquidity. With a completely different take on Lanquidity, Side Two begins with four wild remixes by legendary Cologne techno pioneer Wolfgang Voigt, using layered samples from the record. Hailing from the intersection of free jazz and out rock, Ken Vandermark's band Spaceways Inc., with bassist Nate McBride and drummer Hamid Drake, continue with a medley of two Ra tunes ("We Travel the Spaceways" and "Space is the Place"), in collaboration with the Italian band Zu. And where the program started in disbelief, love-skepticism, it concludes with Joe McPhee's emphatic loving embrace on "Cosmic Love," a classic tenor/synth sound-on-sound recording from 1970.