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    Sun Ra - Monorails and Satellites Vols. 1, 2 and 3 (2019)

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    Date: 26 Jan 2019 12:18:02
    Sun Ra - Monorails and Satellites Vols. 1, 2 and 3 (2019)

    Sun Ra - Monorails and Satellites Vols. 1, 2 and 3 (2019)
    Jazz | 01:48:57 | WEB FLAC (tracks) | 418 MB
    Label: Cosmic Myth Records

    "I have always thought orchestra. I play that way, even when playing the piano." — Sun Ra

    Monorails and Satellites were two volumes of solo piano works recorded by Sun Ra in 1966. Volume 1 was issued on his Saturn label in 1968, volume 2 the following year. They were the first commercial LPs of the artist's solo keyboard excursions. Vol. 1 featured seven idiosyncratic Sun Ra originals and one standard delivered in Sunny's singular manner. Vol. 2 consists entirely of original compositions. A tape of a third, unreleased volume was discovered posthumously by Michael D. Anderson of the Sun Ra Music Archive. Released here for the first time, it consists of five originals and four standards, and was recorded in stereo.

    Despite Sun Ra's obsession with the future, Monorails and Satellites is something of a nostalgia trip. As a youth in Birmingham, Alabama, the man who became Sun Ra—Herman Poole Blount—spent hours at the Forbes Piano Company, amusing himself (as well as staff and customers) at the showroom keyboards. He practiced standards, emulated his piano heroes, played the latest pop songs, and improvised. The idyllic reveries which the teen experienced in those formative years were no doubt recaptured during the Monorails sessions.

    The playing here speaks less of a style, and more of a collection of statements. Some of the tunes, with their odd juxtapositions of mood, could be mistaken for silent film scores. Perhaps they were audio notebooks, a way to generate ideas which could be developed with the band ("I think orchestra"). Regardless of any secondary (and admittedly speculative) intent, they serve as compelling standalone works. The fingering reflects Sun Ra's encyclopedic knowledge of piano history as his passages veer from stride to swing, from barrelhouse to post-bop, from march to Cecil Taylor-esque free flights, with a bit of soothing "candelabra" swank thrown in. Sunny's attack is mercurial, his themes unpredictable. His hands can be primitive or playful, then abruptly turn sensitive and elegant. As with the whole of Sun Ra's recorded legacy, you get everything but consistency and predictability.

    The listener also experiences something rare in the Sun Ra recorded omniverse: intimacy. His albums, generally populated by the rotating Arkestral cast, are raucous affairs. With the Monorails sessions, we eavesdrop on private moments: the artist, alone with his piano. These are brief audio snapshots of what was surely a substantial part of Sun Ra's life, infinitesimal surviving scraps of 100,000 hours similarly spent, most lost to posterity.

    The 2-CD and 3-LP packages of this set include an essay by three-time Down Beat Artist of the Year VIJAY IYER, along with a historical chronicle by jazz authority BEN YOUNG.

    Tracklist:
    01. Sun Ra - Space Towers
    02. Sun Ra - Cognition
    03. Sun Ra - Skylight
    04. Sun Ra - The Alter Destiny
    05. Sun Ra - Easy Street
    06. Sun Ra - Blue Differentials
    07. Sun Ra - Monorails and Satellites
    08. Sun Ra - The Galaxy Way
    01. Sun Ra - Astro Vision
    02. Sun Ra - The Ninth Eye
    03. Sun Ra - Solar Boats
    04. Sun Ra - Perspective Prisms of Is
    05. Sun Ra - Calundronius
    01. Sun Ra - Soundscapes
    02. Sun Ra - The Eternal Tomorrow
    03. Sun Ra - Today is Not Yesterday
    04. Sun Ra - World Island Festival
    05. Sun Ra - The Changing Wind
    06. Sun Ra - Don't Blame Me
    07. Sun Ra - Gone with the Wind
    08. Sun Ra - How Am I To Know
    09. Sun Ra - Yesterdays

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