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Sun Ra

Space Is The Place

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MOG Editorial Review

If you're looking for an otherworldly listening experience, you can't go wrong with the avant-jazz of Space Is the Place. Clocking in at over 20 minutes, the album's title track captures Sun Ra's essence, with chants, otherworldly themes, jarring horn solos, and the ability to tie it all together in a way only one warped genius possibly could. Elsewhere, Sun Ra tones down his challenging nature without ever quite resembling traditional jazz, as even the accessible "Images" contains its share of strange juxtapositions. By the time you make it through chaotic closer "Rocket Number Nine," you'll nearly feel like you've briefly stepped into another dimension by taking a listen, which is as close to describable perfection as you can get with a Sun Ra record.
AMG Review of Space Is the Place [Impulse!]

Stephen Cook
All Music Guide

Space Is the Place provides an excellent introduction to Sun Ra's vast and free-form jazz catalog. Typical of many Sun Ra recordings, the program is varied; earthbound songs, like the swing number "Images" and Egyptian exotica piece "Discipline," fit right in with more space-age cuts, like the tumultuous "Sea of Sounds" and the humorous "Rocket Number Nine." Sun Ra fuses many of these styles on the sprawling title cut, as interlocking harmonies, African percussion, manic synthesizer lines, and joyous ensemble blowing all jell into some sort of church revival of the cosmos. Throughout the recording, Sun Ra displays his typically wide-ranging talents on space organ and piano, reed players John Gilmore and Marshall Allen contribute incisive and intense solos, and June Tyson masterfully leads the Space Ethnic Voices on dreamy vocal flights. This is a fine recording and a must for Sun Ra fans.