Music Is A Message From Space (VINYL) | Mint (M) Mint (M)

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Music Is A Message From Space is a bracing nine-track LP featuring new and archival recordings, all orbiting around the intergalactic soundscape introduced by Sun Ra. Ra's own acapella track "I Don't Believe in Love," recorded by Ra at home in Chicago during the 1950s, kicks the program off. This intimate private recording is followed by two intense new solo improvisations by French guitarist Raymond "Moncho" Boni, one acoustic and one electric, inspired by seeing the Arkestra preparing for a gig in Arles in 1976. The first side wraps up with Jason Adasiewicz's riveting unaccompanied vibraphone workout on Ra's "Lanquidity" and "Where Pathways Meet," both compositions from the LP Lanquidity. With a completely different take on Lanquidity, side two begins with four wild remixes by legendary Cologne techno pioneer Wolfgang Voigt, using layered samples from the record. Hailing from the intersection of free jazz and out rock, Ken Vandermark's band Spaceways Inc., with bassist Nate McBride and drummer Hamid Drake, continue with a medley of two Ra tunes ("We Travel the Spaceways" and "Space is the Place"), in collaboration with the Italian band Zu. And where the program started in disbelief, love-skepticism, it concludes with Joe McPhee's emphatic loving embrace on "Cosmic Love," a classic tenor/synth sound-on-sound recording from 1970. In its breadth, Music is a Message From Space revels in the omnidirectionality of Ra's influence. The vinyl is strictly limited to 500 copies and features cover art by Emil Schult, who designed classic 1970s LPs for Kraftwerk. The record's inner sleeve reproduces the artworks in Nothing Is: Sun Ra and Other's Covers, a show curated by John Corbett and Albert Oehlen for JUBG in Cologne and CvsD in Chicago, serving as a full-color commemoration of that recent exhibition.

Track Listing:

A
01.    I Don't Believe In Love, Recorded At Home In Chicago, 1956    01:56    
02.    Not So Necessarily, Recorded By Raymond Boni, Mixed By Bastien In Montpellier, France, 2024    05:44    
03.    Sun Ra River Side, Recorded By Raymond Boni, August 20, 2024 In Montpellier, France    08:19    
04.    Lanquidity/Where Pathways Meet, Recorded At Hot Juice, January 2025    06:06    
B
05.    Sun Ra Loop 1    02:35    
06.    Sun Ra Loop 2    02:45    
07.    Sun Ra Loop 3    02:01    
08.    Sun Ra Loop 4    02:19     
09.    We Travel The Spaceways/Space Is The Place, Recorded September, 2003    08:07    
10.    Cosmic Love, Recorded In Poughkeepsie, New York, 1970    05:57     

- Music Is A Message From Space is a bracing nine-track LP featuring new and archival recordings, all orbiting around the intergalactic soundscape introduced by Sun Ra.
- The vinyl is strictly limited to 500 copies and features cover art by Emil Schult, who designed classic 1970s LPs for Kraftwerk.
- Featuring Sun Ra, Raymond Boni, Jason Adasiewicz, Wolfgang Voigt, Spaceways Inc., Zu, and Joe McPhee.

• Media Condition: Mint (M)
• Sleeve Condition: Mint (M)
• Format Detail: LP
• Format: Vinyl
• Genre: JAZZ
• Released: 4/18/25