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Frankie Valli / Sun Ra: Between the Neon and the Cosmos

by Glenn Astarita
April 1, 2026

There are concept albums, and then there are events. Between the Neon and the Cosmos--an unlikely archival summit between the falsetto king of the New Jersey street corner and the self-proclaimed Cosmic Ambassador from Saturn--is unambiguously the latter. What began as a lost 1978 session tape, reportedly arranged through the mutual obsession of a now-anonymous Atlantic Records A&R man, surfaces here fully remastered and accompanied by two newly overdubbed tracks, and the result is one of the most genuinely strange ...