Sun Ra - Omniverse (Expanded Edition 2021) '2022

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Artist	Sun Ra Related artists
Album name	Omniverse (Expanded Edition 2021)
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Date	2022
Genre	Jazz
Play time	00:46:04
Format / Bitrate	24 BIT Stereo 1420 Kbps / 44.1 kHz
Media	CD
Size	262; 499 MB
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       NOTE: This is a 2021 remaster of Omniverse, which is also available from
Modern Harmonic on LP and CD. The CD and digital editions contain two bonus
tracks (details below). The following liner notes are adapted from our 2015
five-track digital reissue of the original Saturn album.

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Omniverse, recorded in New York in 1979 and released that year on Sun Ra's
Saturn label, has been gathering dust for too long. It's a fine, overlooked item
in the vast Ra catalog. The tracks aren't so much compositions as they are
excursions, with only a few memorable themes or recurring motifs. It's pure
jazz, somewhat "inside" (for Sun Ra), with little of the aggressiveness and
confrontation for which the bandleader was known. (Track 5, "Visitant of the
Ninth Ultimate," is an exception.) Omniverse is a very intimate album, offering
lots of reflective piano in trio, quartet, and quintet settings, with spare
horns. But instead of exhibiting a keyboard showcase, Sun Ra engages in dynamic
interplay with the rhythm section. Moreover, the horns are featured largely as
soloists; there are few ensemble passages.

Three of the works (tracks 3, 4 and 5) exist as recordings only on this album;
there are no documented concert performances of these titles. "West End Side of
Magic City" (a reference to the bandleader's birth town of Birmingham, Alabama)
doesn't reappear in the known repertoire for twelve yearsâ€”it surfaces at
a May 1991 Atlanta concert, and was reprised in August at a New York club date
(for which the piece was announced from the stage as "Vita Number 5"). "The
Place of Five Points" is known to have been performed at a smattering of gigs
between 1985-1988.

Tracklist:
1.01 - Sun Ra - Place of Five Points (4:17)
1.02 - Sun Ra - West End Side of Magic City (1:11)
1.03 - Sun Ra - Dark Lights in a White Forest (10:42)
1.04 - Sun Ra - Omniverse (8:33)
1.05 - Sun Ra - Visitant of the Ninth Ultimate (9:25)
1.06 - Sun Ra - Over the Rainbow (Bonus track) (2:54)
1.07 - Sun Ra - The Sound Mirror (Bonus track) (9:02)

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