Sun Ra - Exotica (2017) {2CD Set Modern Harmonic MHCD-012}

Posted By: ruskaval

Sun Ra - Exotica (2017) {2CD Set Modern Harmonic MHCD-012}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 531 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 304 Mb
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (jpg) -> 29 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 2017 Modern Harmonic / Sundazed Music | MHCD-012
Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz / Jazz Funk / Experimental Big Band / Progressive Jazz

A fantastic take on the music of Sun Ra – a set that looks at the way his sounds dovetailed with the exotica movement in American music of the postwar years! Given that he claimed to be from outer space, Ra was already pretty darn exotic himself – but his music also arose at a time when artists like Martin Denny and Les Baxter were taking global sounds and fusing them into more mainstream American music, including jazz – with results that have become legendary over the years!

And while Denny, Baxter, and other contemporaries were more involved with mood music, Ra was part of a generation of jazz musicians – such as Yusef Lateef or Wilbur Harden – who were working a richer vein of the territory for jazz – as you'll hear in these wonderful tracks. The set brings together key sides from the earliest Ra recordings, plus some unissued material too – done in the really great style of the other Modern Harmonic reissues in recent years. Unissued titles include "April In Paris", "Paradise", "Star Bright", "Spontaneous Simplicity", "Somewhere In Space", and "Cha Cha In Outer Space" – and other titles include "Overtones Of China", "Tiny Pyramids", "The Nile (part 1)", "Kingdom Of Thunder", "Ancient Aiethopia", "India", "Friendly Galaxy", and "Africa" – plus the complete version of "Island In The Sun".

Sensuous dreamscapes to transport the listener to the lush tropical environs of the outer reaches of the omniverse. Your choice of three astro black inter-stellar saucers or two compact saucers of "Exotic-Ra" bringing you to a lush cocktail party where space is the place. All packaged in a beautiful Chesley Bonestell adorned gatefold package with two sets of extensive notes! Sun Ra. Exotica. Incongruous? Listening to the 25 tracks herein will showcase that Sun Ra was, indeed, an Exoticat of sorts, albeit in his own unique way, of course. That Sun Ra hasn't been celebrated in Exotica circles is understandable. Though many collectors are fans of both, at cocktail soires Ra has never seemed to make the cut. This album aims to change that! While Sun Ra never made an "Exotica record," such tracks are mixed in his LPs alongside idiosyncratic space jazz, post-bop, electronic freakouts, and his other sonic experiments. Never an easy categorical fit, anyone who says "File Under: Jazz" doesn't understand the stylistic breadth of Sun Ra's recorded legacy. It's a rhapsodic pandemonium of Afro-centric rhythms, Latin beats, ostinato grooves, and unissued tunes!


allaboutjazz.com INFO

Limited to 1000 copies; released for Record Store Day / Black Friday 2017.

Tracks 1-3, 1-14, 2-1, 2-6, 2-9, 2-10 previously unreleased.
Tracks 1-12, 1-13, 2-4, 2-10 Stereo. All other selections Mono.


Track LIsting
CD1

01 - Kingdom of Thunder
02 - Space Mates (Abridged)
03 - Star Bright
04 - The Nile, Part 1
05 - Eve
06 - Tiny Pyramids
07 - The Lady with the Golden Shtockings
08 - Paradise
09 - New Horizons
10 - Portrait of the Living Sky
11 - India
12 - Ancient Aitheopia
13 - Planet Earth
14 - April in Paris



CD2
01 - Island in the Sun
02 - Africa
03 - Friendly Galaxy
04 - Interstellar Low Ways
05 - The Conversion of JP (Abridged)
06 - Cha-Cha in Outer Space
07 - Brazilian Sun
08 - Lights on a Satellite
09 - Somewhere in Space
10 - Spntaneous Simplicity
11 - Overtones of China



Exact Audio Copy V1.1 from 23. June 2015

EAC extraction logfile from 8. July 2018, 8:09

Sun Ra / Exotica

Used drive : HL-DT-STDVDRAM GP50NB40 Adapter: 1 ID: 0

Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No

Read offset correction : 6
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Gap handling : Appended to previous track

Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 1024 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
Command line compressor : C:\Program Files (x86)\Exact Audio Copy\Flac\flac.exe
Additional command line options : -8 -e -p -V -T "ARTIST=%artist%" -T "TITLE=%title%" -T "ALBUM=%albumtitle%" -T "DATE=%year%" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%tracknr%" -T "GENRE=%genre%" -T "PERFORMER=%albuminterpret%" -T "COMPOSER=%composer%" %haslyrics%–tag-from-file=LYRICS="%lyricsfile%"%haslyrics% -T "ALBUMARTIST=%albumartist%" -T "DISCNUMBER=%cdnumber%" -T "TOTALDISCS=%totalcds%" -T "TOTALTRACKS=%numtracks%" -T "COMMENT=%comment%" %source% -o %dest%


TOC of the extracted CD

Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––-
1 | 0:00.00 | 3:53.37 | 0 | 17511
2 | 3:53.37 | 4:46.39 | 17512 | 39000
3 | 8:40.01 | 2:28.41 | 39001 | 50141
4 | 11:08.42 | 5:00.21 | 50142 | 72662
5 | 16:08.63 | 5:53.00 | 72663 | 99137
6 | 22:01.63 | 3:40.65 | 99138 | 115702
7 | 25:42.53 | 7:46.23 | 115703 | 150675
8 | 33:29.01 | 4:30.10 | 150676 | 170935
9 | 37:59.11 | 3:04.34 | 170936 | 184769
10 | 41:03.45 | 1:51.47 | 184770 | 193141
11 | 42:55.17 | 4:51.62 | 193142 | 215028
12 | 47:47.04 | 9:17.48 | 215029 | 256851
13 | 57:04.52 | 4:59.32 | 256852 | 279308
14 | 62:04.09 | 3:55.18 | 279309 | 296951


Track 1

Filename C:\Staging\Sun Ra - Exotica [2017 Modern Harmonic MHCD-012]\Disc 1\01 - Kingdom Of Thunder.wav

Pre-gap length 0:00:02.00

Peak level 99.4 %
Extraction speed 1.1 X
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 63226DF5
Copy CRC 63226DF5
Accurately ripped (confidence 1) [F1B3A085] (AR v2)
Copy OK

Track 2

Filename C:\Staging\Sun Ra - Exotica [2017 Modern Harmonic MHCD-012]\Disc 1\02 - Space Mates (Abridged).wav

Pre-gap length 0:00:03.46

Peak level 99.9 %
Extraction speed 1.2 X
Track quality 99.9 %
Test CRC 002CCAF1
Copy CRC 002CCAF1
Accurately ripped (confidence 1) [EA047778] (AR v2)
Copy OK

Track 3

Filename C:\Staging\Sun Ra - Exotica [2017 Modern Harmonic MHCD-012]\Disc 1\03 - Star Bright.wav

Pre-gap length 0:00:03.24

Peak level 49.2 %
Extraction speed 1.3 X
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 07DE92A1
Copy CRC 07DE92A1
Accurately ripped (confidence 1) [129F9327] (AR v2)
Copy OK

Track 4

Filename C:\Staging\Sun Ra - Exotica [2017 Modern Harmonic MHCD-012]\Disc 1\04 - The Nile, Part 1.wav

Pre-gap length 0:00:03.06

Peak level 67.2 %
Extraction speed 1.5 X
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 331D5D3E
Copy CRC 331D5D3E
Accurately ripped (confidence 1) [22138534] (AR v2)
Copy OK

Track 5

Filename C:\Staging\Sun Ra - Exotica [2017 Modern Harmonic MHCD-012]\Disc 1\05 - Eve.wav

Pre-gap length 0:00:02.17

Peak level 83.9 %
Extraction speed 1.7 X
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 6B25D5B1
Copy CRC 6B25D5B1
Accurately ripped (confidence 1) [CE5A5FB5] (AR v2)
Copy OK

Track 6

Filename C:\Staging\Sun Ra - Exotica [2017 Modern Harmonic MHCD-012]\Disc 1\06 - Tiny Pyramids.wav

Pre-gap length 0:00:02.85

Peak level 94.3 %
Extraction speed 1.7 X
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 8C8C650D
Copy CRC 8C8C650D
Accurately ripped (confidence 1) [9E743B2E] (AR v2)
Copy OK

Track 7

Filename C:\Staging\Sun Ra - Exotica [2017 Modern Harmonic MHCD-012]\Disc 1\07 - The Lady With The Golden Stockings.wav

Pre-gap length 0:00:02.69

Peak level 85.1 %
Extraction speed 2.0 X
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 4982DFC1
Copy CRC 4982DFC1
Accurately ripped (confidence 1) [BC02036E] (AR v2)
Copy OK

Track 8

Filename C:\Staging\Sun Ra - Exotica [2017 Modern Harmonic MHCD-012]\Disc 1\08 - Paradise.wav

Pre-gap length 0:00:03.61

Peak level 89.1 %
Extraction speed 2.0 X
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 68115B9A
Copy CRC 68115B9A
Accurately ripped (confidence 1) [0F882D48] (AR v2)
Copy OK

Track 9

Filename C:\Staging\Sun Ra - Exotica [2017 Modern Harmonic MHCD-012]\Disc 1\09 - New Horizons.wav

Pre-gap length 0:00:02.90

Peak level 82.8 %
Extraction speed 2.0 X
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 7803377E
Copy CRC 7803377E
Accurately ripped (confidence 1) [9C4AA97D] (AR v2)
Copy OK

Track 10

Filename C:\Staging\Sun Ra - Exotica [2017 Modern Harmonic MHCD-012]\Disc 1\10 - Portrait Of The Living Sky.wav

Pre-gap length 0:00:03.01

Peak level 89.1 %
Extraction speed 1.8 X
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 4A45CA2E
Copy CRC 4A45CA2E
Accurately ripped (confidence 1) [57757529] (AR v2)
Copy OK

Track 11

Filename C:\Staging\Sun Ra - Exotica [2017 Modern Harmonic MHCD-012]\Disc 1\11 - India.wav

Pre-gap length 0:00:03.70

Peak level 54.1 %
Extraction speed 2.0 X
Track quality 99.9 %
Test CRC B716BEBC
Copy CRC B716BEBC
Accurately ripped (confidence 1) [30764574] (AR v2)
Copy OK

Track 12

Filename C:\Staging\Sun Ra - Exotica [2017 Modern Harmonic MHCD-012]\Disc 1\12 - Ancient Aiethopia.wav

Pre-gap length 0:00:03.70

Peak level 89.0 %
Extraction speed 2.5 X
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 0AB3F7F8
Copy CRC 0AB3F7F8
Accurately ripped (confidence 1) [5E86E6F3] (AR v2)
Copy OK

Track 13

Filename C:\Staging\Sun Ra - Exotica [2017 Modern Harmonic MHCD-012]\Disc 1\13 - Planet Earth.wav

Pre-gap length 0:00:03.18

Peak level 84.7 %
Extraction speed 2.2 X
Track quality 99.9 %
Test CRC E6F71E44
Copy CRC E6F71E44
Accurately ripped (confidence 1) [678D5969] (AR v2)
Copy OK

Track 14

Filename C:\Staging\Sun Ra - Exotica [2017 Modern Harmonic MHCD-012]\Disc 1\14 - April In Paris.wav

Pre-gap length 0:00:03.88

Peak level 68.4 %
Extraction speed 2.4 X
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 9237B59A
Copy CRC 9237B59A
Accurately ripped (confidence 1) [F000218C] (AR v2)
Copy OK


All tracks accurately ripped

No errors occurred

End of status report

–– CUETools DB Plugin V2.1.6

[CTDB TOCID: ZWoaFHp0MlBC.75LugJU47tI47s-] found
Submit result: ZWoaFHp0MlBC.75LugJU47tI47s- has been confirmed
Track | CTDB Status
1 | (3/3) Accurately ripped
2 | (3/3) Accurately ripped
3 | (3/3) Accurately ripped
4 | (3/3) Accurately ripped
5 | (3/3) Accurately ripped
6 | (3/3) Accurately ripped
7 | (3/3) Accurately ripped
8 | (3/3) Accurately ripped
9 | (3/3) Accurately ripped
10 | (3/3) Accurately ripped
11 | (3/3) Accurately ripped
12 | (3/3) Accurately ripped
13 | (3/3) Accurately ripped
14 | (3/3) Accurately ripped


==== Log checksum 87E7C3B3FEC368D0309A510916A64BF3C37E06EF2F2EA93679408A147AA006CE ====
Exact Audio Copy V1.1 from 23. June 2015

EAC extraction logfile from 8. July 2018, 20:29

Sun Ra / Exotica

Used drive : HL-DT-STDVDRAM GP50NB40 Adapter: 1 ID: 0

Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No

Read offset correction : 6
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Gap handling : Appended to previous track

Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 1024 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
Command line compressor : C:\Program Files (x86)\Exact Audio Copy\Flac\flac.exe
Additional command line options : -8 -e -p -V -T "ARTIST=%artist%" -T "TITLE=%title%" -T "ALBUM=%albumtitle%" -T "DATE=%year%" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%tracknr%" -T "GENRE=%genre%" -T "PERFORMER=%albuminterpret%" -T "COMPOSER=%composer%" %haslyrics%–tag-from-file=LYRICS="%lyricsfile%"%haslyrics% -T "ALBUMARTIST=%albumartist%" -T "DISCNUMBER=%cdnumber%" -T "TOTALDISCS=%totalcds%" -T "TOTALTRACKS=%numtracks%" -T "COMMENT=%comment%" %source% -o %dest%


TOC of the extracted CD

Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––-
1 | 0:00.00 | 10:24.30 | 0 | 46829
2 | 10:24.30 | 5:07.61 | 46830 | 69915
3 | 15:32.16 | 4:54.03 | 69916 | 91968
4 | 20:26.19 | 8:26.74 | 91969 | 129992
5 | 28:53.18 | 7:03.41 | 129993 | 161758
6 | 35:56.59 | 4:38.61 | 161759 | 182669
7 | 40:35.45 | 3:58.65 | 182670 | 200584
8 | 44:34.35 | 3:41.55 | 200585 | 217214
9 | 48:16.15 | 6:16.20 | 217215 | 245434
10 | 54:32.35 | 3:02.68 | 245435 | 259152
11 | 57:35.28 | 4:18.53 | 259153 | 278555


Track 1

Filename C:\Staging\Sun Ra - Exotica [2017 Modern Harmonic MHCD-012]\Disc 2\01 - Island In The Sun.wav

Pre-gap length 0:00:02.00

Peak level 61.0 %
Extraction speed 1.3 X
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC F93D995E
Copy CRC F93D995E
Accurately ripped (confidence 1) [1277E7CD] (AR v2)
Copy OK

Track 2

Filename C:\Staging\Sun Ra - Exotica [2017 Modern Harmonic MHCD-012]\Disc 2\02 - Africa.wav

Pre-gap length 0:00:03.28

Peak level 78.5 %
Extraction speed 1.5 X
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 3DECC5EE
Copy CRC 3DECC5EE
Accurately ripped (confidence 1) [CA992D7E] (AR v2)
Copy OK

Track 3

Filename C:\Staging\Sun Ra - Exotica [2017 Modern Harmonic MHCD-012]\Disc 2\03 - Friendly Galaxy.wav

Pre-gap length 0:00:02.45

Peak level 86.5 %
Extraction speed 1.6 X
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 5F322228
Copy CRC 5F322228
Accurately ripped (confidence 1) [846A7477] (AR v2)
Copy OK

Track 4

Filename C:\Staging\Sun Ra - Exotica [2017 Modern Harmonic MHCD-012]\Disc 2\04 - Interstellar Low Ways.wav

Pre-gap length 0:00:03.40

Peak level 74.1 %
Extraction speed 1.8 X
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 16C01845
Copy CRC 16C01845
Accurately ripped (confidence 1) [D1D4A736] (AR v2)
Copy OK

Track 5

Filename C:\Staging\Sun Ra - Exotica [2017 Modern Harmonic MHCD-012]\Disc 2\05 - The Conversion Of J.P. (Abridged).wav

Pre-gap length 0:00:02.90

Peak level 84.5 %
Extraction speed 2.0 X
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 72C84878
Copy CRC 72C84878
Accurately ripped (confidence 1) [7EE166D1] (AR v2)
Copy OK

Track 6

Filename C:\Staging\Sun Ra - Exotica [2017 Modern Harmonic MHCD-012]\Disc 2\06 - Cha-Cha In Outer Space.wav

Pre-gap length 0:00:03.40

Peak level 63.8 %
Extraction speed 2.0 X
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC BE923FA2
Copy CRC BE923FA2
Accurately ripped (confidence 1) [7E1324B9] (AR v2)
Copy OK

Track 7

Filename C:\Staging\Sun Ra - Exotica [2017 Modern Harmonic MHCD-012]\Disc 2\07 - Brazilian Sun.wav

Pre-gap length 0:00:02.46

Peak level 70.6 %
Extraction speed 2.0 X
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC B557154E
Copy CRC B557154E
Accurately ripped (confidence 1) [35930C05] (AR v2)
Copy OK

Track 8

Filename C:\Staging\Sun Ra - Exotica [2017 Modern Harmonic MHCD-012]\Disc 2\08 - Lights On A Satellite.wav

Pre-gap length 0:00:02.70

Peak level 92.5 %
Extraction speed 1.8 X
Track quality 99.9 %
Test CRC 4E7E21F5
Copy CRC 4E7E21F5
Accurately ripped (confidence 1) [D4FBB05F] (AR v2)
Copy OK

Track 9

Filename C:\Staging\Sun Ra - Exotica [2017 Modern Harmonic MHCD-012]\Disc 2\09 - Somewhere In Space.wav

Pre-gap length 0:00:03.44

Peak level 68.5 %
Extraction speed 2.3 X
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC EE958733
Copy CRC EE958733
Accurately ripped (confidence 1) [13ACC19A] (AR v2)
Copy OK

Track 10

Filename C:\Staging\Sun Ra - Exotica [2017 Modern Harmonic MHCD-012]\Disc 2\10 - Spontaneous Simplicity.wav

Pre-gap length 0:00:03.38

Peak level 70.1 %
Extraction speed 1.9 X
Track quality 99.9 %
Test CRC F90ACC6B
Copy CRC F90ACC6B
Accurately ripped (confidence 1) [C3EBD7BE] (AR v2)
Copy OK

Track 11

Filename C:\Staging\Sun Ra - Exotica [2017 Modern Harmonic MHCD-012]\Disc 2\11 - Overtones Of China.wav

Pre-gap length 0:00:01.94

Peak level 74.6 %
Extraction speed 2.3 X
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC B0D8B5BF
Copy CRC B0D8B5BF
Accurately ripped (confidence 1) [018425D8] (AR v2)
Copy OK


All tracks accurately ripped

No errors occurred

End of status report

–– CUETools DB Plugin V2.1.6

[CTDB TOCID: vP8OrK2KRXlCitnaJrQKQkQJDYc-] found
Submit result: vP8OrK2KRXlCitnaJrQKQkQJDYc- has been confirmed
Track | CTDB Status
1 | (2/2) Accurately ripped
2 | (2/2) Accurately ripped
3 | (2/2) Accurately ripped
4 | (2/2) Accurately ripped
5 | (2/2) Accurately ripped
6 | (2/2) Accurately ripped
7 | (2/2) Accurately ripped
8 | (2/2) Accurately ripped
9 | (2/2) Accurately ripped
10 | (2/2) Accurately ripped
11 | (2/2) Accurately ripped


==== Log checksum AC56FFEBF131C2B0C0BE6176F68BCBE9DF3B48E17EE7B55894074A39AAD29A8B ====




see more Sun Ra…


===