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Sun Ra: Lanquidity (2 x CD Edition)

Read "Lanquidity (2 x CD Edition)" reviewed by Chris May


When it comes to Sun Ra, the elephant in the room--or perhaps the intergalactic space frigate orbiting your sound system--is how many musicians in the band were bombed out on acid during a typical recording session? By all accounts, Ra ran a tight spaceship and drugs, mind expanding or numbing, were strictly off limits. Then again, Frank Zappa was a similarly sober micro-manager, but bandmembers' memoirs have revealed what anyone with ears has suspected for decades: namely that weed and ...

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Danny Thompson - Allan Holdsworth - John Stevens: Propensity

Read "Propensity" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


La Art of Life del volonteroso Paul G. Kohler continua nella sua attività discografica tesa soprattutto a riportare alla luce registrazioni di molti anni fa. Vecchie cose uscite solo su vinile negli anni sessanta e settanta, ormai non più rintracciabili oppure, come in questo caso, registrazioni mai pubblicate, rimaste nei cassetti di una etichetta discografica che è spesso disallineata rispetto alle vere priorità artistiche. Per questo Propensity vengono portate alla luce due lunghe improvvisazioni in trio, ottimamente registrate, che vedono ...


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