Sun Ra - Space Is The Place Album

Tracklist

1	Space Is The Place	21:14
2	Images	6:15
3	Sea Of Sounds	7:42
4	Rocket Number Nine	2:50
5	Discipline	4:50

Versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
BTS 41	Sun Ra	Space Is The Place ‎(LP, Album, Gat)	Blue Thumb Records	BTS 41	US	1973
QUAD BTS 41	Sun Ra	Space Is The Place ‎(LP, Album, Quad)	Blue Thumb Records	QUAD BTS 41	US	1973
BTS 41, 06007 53627631	Sun Ra	Space Is The Place ‎(LP, Album, RE, 180)	Blue Thumb Records, The Verve Music Group	BTS 41, 06007 53627631	Europe	2015
UCCU-9012, BTS 41	Sun Ra	Space Is The Place ‎(CD, Album, Ltd, RE, RM, Min)	Blue Thumb Records, Blue Thumb Records	UCCU-9012, BTS 41	Japan	2003
JPR049	Sun Ra	Space Is The Place ‎(LP, Album, Ltd, RE, Red)	Jackpot Records	JPR049	US	2018

Credits

• Alto Saxophone – Danny Davis (tracks: 4), Marshall Allen (tracks: 4)
• Art Direction – Hollis King
• Baritone Saxophone – Danny Ray Thompson (tracks: 1), Pat Patrick (tracks: 4)
• Bass Clarinet – Eloe Omoe (tracks: 1, 5)
• Composed By, Arranged By – Sun Ra
• Design [Graphic Design] – Senora Brown
• Drums – Lex Humphries (tracks: 4)
• Electric Bass – Pat Patrick (tracks: 1, 2)
• Engineer – Baker Bigsby
• Engineer [Assistant] – Dominic Lumetta, Jim Dolan, Mitch Hennes, Preston Wakeland, Steve Skinder
• Flugelhorn – Akh Tal Ebah (tracks: 4)
• Flute – Danny Davis (tracks: 3), Danny Ray Thompson (tracks: 3), Eloe Omoe (tracks: 3), Marshall Allen (tracks: 3)
• Liner Notes [Original Liner Notes] – Sun Ra
• Orchestra – Sun Ra And His Astro Intergalactic Infinity Arkestra
• Organ [Space (Farfisa)] – Sun Ra (tracks: 1, 3, 4, 5)
• Percussion – Atakatune (tracks: 4), Odun (tracks: 4)
• Photography By – Chuck Stewart, Jim Newman
• Piano – Sun Ra (tracks: 2)
• Producer [Original Sessions] – Alton Abraham, Ed Michel
• Reissue Producer – Ed Michel
• Tenor Saxophone – John Gilmore (tracks: 2, 3, 4)
• Trumpet – Akh Tal Ebah (tracks: 2), Kwame Hadi (tracks: 2, 4)
• Vocals – Akh Tal Ebah (tracks: 1), Danny Ray Thompson (tracks: 5), John Gilmore (tracks: 1, 5), Pat Patrick (tracks: 5)
• Voice [Space Ethnic Voices] – Cheryl Banks (tracks: 1, 5), Judith Holton (tracks: 1, 5), June Tyson (tracks: 1, 5), Ruth Wright (tracks: 1, 5)

Notes

All compositions and arrangements by Sun Ra Enterplanetary Koncepts, BMI
Recorded October 19 and 20 (Sea Of Sounds, Rocket Number Nine), 1972, at Streeterville Recording Studio, Chicago

Mixed at The Village Recorder, Los Angeles

The Arkestra and Space Ethnic Voices perform with permission from El Saturn Records

Note: Space Is The Place was originally released on Blue Thumb Records in 1973 as BTS-41. Impulse producer Ed Michel supervised the recording session. Impulse, then owned by ABC, was releasing many of Sun Ra's albums under a distribution agreement with Saturn Records during the same time. For these reasons Space In The Place has been returned to its rightful place on Impulse.

℗ 1998 MCA Records, Inc. & © 1972 MCA Records, Inc. & 1998 GRP Records, Inc.
Made in the EU.

Packaging: 3 panel Digipak with 12 page booklet
The Arkestra is mentioned in the booklet as Sun Ra And His Astro Intergalactic Infinity Arkestra

Barcodes

• Barcode: 0 11105 12492 8
• Matrix / Runout: IMP12492/0512492000000 00
• Matrix / Runout (CD Mould): Made in the E.U. by Cinram Optical Discs
• Rights Society: BIEM / MCPS
• Label Code: LC 00236
• Price Code (F): UN712
• Mastering SID Code: IFPI L003
• Mould SID Code (Variant 1): IFPI 0271
• Mould SID Code (Variant 2): IFPI 02C7
• Mould SID Code (Variant 3): IFPI 02A0

Companies

• Phonographic Copyright (p) – MCA Records, Inc.
• Copyright (c) – MCA Records, Inc.
• Copyright (c) – GRP Records, Inc.
• Recorded At – Streeterville Studios
• Mixed At – The Village Recorder
• Published By – Enterplanetary Koncepts
• Made By – Cinram Optical Discs

Short intro

Space Is the Place is a studio album by Sun Ra. It was originally released on Blue Thumb Records in 1973. In 1998, it was reissued on Impulse Records. He called it a fine recording and a must for Sun Ra fans. Stevie Chick of BBC described the album's title track as Sun Ra's ultimate anthem, espousing the fusion of science fiction and ancient myth with the. Space is the Place by Sun Ra & His Arkestra, released 01 October 2014 1. Space is the Place 2. Images In a Mirror 3. Discipline 33 4. Sea of Sounds 5. Rocket Number Nine The contents of this album are only for sale in Outer Space, where the rights belong to Sun Ra, as codified in the original recording contract for Space is the Place: RIGHTS ON PLANETS OTHER THAN EARTH. Company agrees that all rights discussed in paragraph 5 above viz. The contents of this album are only for sale in Outer Space, where the rights belong to Sun Ra, as codified in the original recording contract for Space is the Place: rights on planets other than earth. Space is the Place: Music for the Film - Sun Ra. Лента с персональными рекомендациями и музыкальными новинками, радио, подборки на любой вкус, удобное управление своей. Sun Ra & His Arkestra - Space Is the Place from The Antique Blacks in album Sun Ra - Space Is The Place 1973. Sun Ra - Space Is The Place. Review by Stephen Cook 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. Space Is the Place is a jazz album by Sun Ra. It was released in 1973. This album was originally issued in LP format on the ABC Records label, Blue Thumb Records in the CD era it was issued with the Impulse label. Track listing. all written and arranged by Sun Ra. Space is the Place - 21:14. Images - 6:15. Discipline - 4:50. 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. It was released in 1973 this album was originally issued in LP format on the ABC Records label, Blue Thumb Records in the CD era it was issued with the Impulse label. Space is the Place, Over the Rainbow - Sun Ra. Лента с персональными рекомендациями и музыкальными новинками, радио, подборки на любой вкус, удобное управление своей коллекцией