Customer Reviews
beenykleesox - somewhat misleading - By: , 09 May 2004 
It's great that reviewer "beenykleesox" likes Ra's album, although he must be mistaken about seeing Sun Ra himselfin 2001. Sun Ra "went back to Saturn" (died)in 1993! Maybe it was the band under the direction of Marshall Allen . . . .?
It's a hard-core, tongue-in-cheek wall of sound from space! - By: Ben WK, 19 Oct 2002 
If you enjoy the blistering pace & highly inventive, raucously melodious sounds of the likes of Charles Mingus, Roland Kirk & Yusef Lateef, chances are you'll get a kick out of Sun Ra & his Kosmik Arkestra. Sun Ra takes bebop & blows it into a whacked-out, tongue-in-cheek fusion of pulp science-fiction & egyptology,in the process cocking a snook at the pretentious cool of his self-consciously hip musical contemporaries. This is jazz like you've never heard it before.
I didn't really *get* Sun Ra until seeing him & his Arkestra playing livein Dublinin 2001 (yes, he's still going strong). I laughed with pleasure to see the pure, joyful irreverence which he & his band exhibit, dressedin glittering robes & colourful headpieces, blasting out their massive, cohesive, gorgeous sound which veers from straight-down-the-line hard bop to a cacophonous wall of sound & back, allin the space of one tune!
This album captures that spirit superbly - if you like intelligent jazz with a pinch of salt, then this is a superb choice. However, it's not one to listen toin traffic, during an argument, or while doing your yogic asanas. Space is the place, but you've got to bein the right place for this one.
From now on everything changes - By: lawrencedaniels@yahoo.co.uk, 14 Dec 2000 One cannot for one second imagine what it must have been like to have been Sun Ra - so called man of Saturn. Writer, musician of well over 100 albums, mostly obscure, all good he stood out like a shaft of gold when all around was dark. His fascination with Egyptology & space started a long time before this superb album, but it is the culmination of fantastic writing, superlative playing by a band of whom most members stayed for incredibly long periods to produce a totally other-worldly album. Just great - A huge infuence on Captain Beefheart & all left field musicians, I should fancy
