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1978 studio album by Sun Ra From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lanquidity is a 1978 studio album by American jazz musician Sun Ra.
Lanquidity | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | 14 August 1978[1] | |||
Recorded | 17 July 1978[2] | |||
Studio | Blank Tapes Studios, New York City | |||
Genre | Jazz fusion | |||
Length | 43:33 (Original LP) 91:20 (Special Edition) | |||
Label | Philly Jazz | |||
Producer | Sun Ra | |||
Sun Ra chronology | ||||
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Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
All About Jazz | favorable[3] |
AllMusic | [4] |
Alternative Press | [5] |
JazzTimes | favorable[5] |
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [6] |
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | [7] |
Spin | favorable[5] |
The album was recorded by Bob Blank at Blank Studios, entirely on the night of July 17, 1978, following a performance on Saturday Night Live.[8]
Stylistically, the album is markedly different from Sun Ra's earlier recordings, drawing heavily on funk, R&B and jazz fusion. Lanquidity is also unusual in featuring two guitarists, which were seldom used in the Arkestra.[3] "That's How I Feel" features a tenor sax solo by John Gilmore, Sun Ra's sideman from the 1950s until Sun Ra's death in 1993.
Spin magazine called Lanquidity "a beautiful place to enter Ra's psych-jazz omniverse", while Alternative Press wrote that it is "impossibly funky": "Often compared to Miles Davis' heaviest jazz-rock-funk fusion, Lanquidity is dense, rhythmic and curiously hypnotic".[5] Music journalist Robert Christgau is a fan of the album.[9][10]
The album was first released in 1978 with a reflective foil silver cover. In 2000, it was reissued on HDCD by Evidence Records, with a light grey cover.[11]
In 2021, Strut announced a reissue of the album. Four editions were made available: a remastered version of the original album on digital and as a single LP, and a "Special Edition" version as a 2xCD and 4xLP box set, including rare alternate mixes by Bob Blank. In addition, record club Vinyl Me, Please. pressed a limited run of 750 copies of the single-LP version on red vinyl.[12]
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Lanquidity" | 8:19 |
2. | "Where Pathways Meet" | 6:30 |
3. | "That's How I Feel" | 8:09 |
All tracks are written by Sun Ra
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Twin Stars of Thence" | 9:30 |
2. | "There Are Other Worlds (They Have Not Told You Of)" | 10:58 |
Total length: | 43:33 |
The 2021 "Special Edition" contains the above tracks, followed by Bob Blank's alternate mixes (with the same sequencing) for a total of ten songs.
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