Sun Ra And His Outer Space Arkestra - A Fireside Chat With Lucifer (1983/2023) [Official Digital Download]

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Sun Ra And His Outer Space Arkestra - A Fireside Chat With Lucifer (1983/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 38:32 minutes | 411 MB
Avant-Garde Jazz, Modern Big Band | Label: Modern Harmonic, Official Digital Download

An F-bomb saturated hip-hop call & response club cut…from Sun Ra?! While the most renown track in this omniversal opus is the atomic expletive-filled repartee "Nuclear War," there is so much more to this dark mysterious journey through the mind of Sun Ra. The sprawling, suite-like 20-minute title track sustains a lyrical edge in spite of an open framework and textures, which encourage sonorities to surface and emerge from the band as if there was no human intention behind them. In opposition to "Nuclear War"' Ra's organ playing here was built less on bombast and sonic terror than it is on whispers, stutters, shivers, and swells. Fireside Chat offers a wide stylistic array, as was the artist's intent, reflecting his eclectic, seemingly irreconcilable approach to compositional extremes. With Sun Ra you get everything… except predictability.

While the most renown track in this omniversal opus is the atomic expletive-filled repartee “Nuclear War,” there is so much more to this dark mysterious journey through the mind of Sun Ra. The sprawling, suite-like 20-minute title track sustains a lyrical edge in spite of an open framework and textures, which encourage sonorities to surface and emerge from the band as if there was no human intention behind them. In opposition to “Nuclear War,” Ra's organ playing here was built less on bombast and sonic terror than it is on whispers, stutters, shivers, and swells. Fireside Chat offers a wide stylistic array, as was the artist’s intent, reflecting his eclectic, seemingly irreconcilable approach to compositional extremes. With Sun Ra you get everything… except predictability.

Thomas Stanley, in his ambiguously titled 2014 book, The Execution of Sun Ra, observes, "Throughout his life [Sun Ra] was consistent in his opposition to war and his art reflected this, perhaps most sharply in the space chant 'Nuclear War.' 'It's a motherfucker, don't you know,' Sun Ra and trombonist Tyrone Hill [joined by June Tyson] sing over a deceptively sparkly chromatic piano line played at a steady walking rhythm. It is worth noting that this spicy chunk of language is the only use of profanity that this author is aware of in Sonny's vast recorded song repertory."

Tracklist:
01. Nuclear War
02. Retrospect
03. Makeup
04. A Fireside Chat With Lucifer

foobar2000 1.4.1 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2023-06-30 04:31:09

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Analyzed: Sun Ra / A Fireside Chat With Lucifer
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR11 0.00 dB -14.47 dB 7:44 01-Nuclear War
DR9 0.00 dB -12.74 dB 5:41 02-Retrospect
DR9 0.00 dB -11.20 dB 4:56 03-Makeup
DR12 0.00 dB -16.28 dB 20:11 04-A Fireside Chat With Lucifer
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Number of tracks: 4
Official DR value: DR10

Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 1451 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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