The Sun Ra Arkestra - Strange Strings (Expanded Edition)
Side A
1 World's Approaching (stereo) 10:08
2 Strange Strings (mono) 12:25
Side B
1 Strange Strange (mono) 20:03
Side C
1 Crystal Spheres (Between Worlds) (stereo) 7:30
2 Cosmos Miraculous (mono) 11:10
Side D
1 Untitled St. Peter's (stereo) 8:32
2 Moon Orbit (mono) 6:35
3 Ra Explains the Bandura (mono) 6:10
A1 recorded at Richard Alderson Studios, 1965
A2, B1, C1, C2, D2 recorded at Sun Studio, New York, ca. mid-1965
D1 recorded in concert at an unknown location ca. 1967-68.
D3 recorded at Sun Studio, ca. 1968, during an interview with an unidentified visiting journalist
PERSONNEL
Under the circumstances of the sessions, except for "World's Approaching," Sunny's occasional keyboards, and anecdotal remembrances, it's impossible to identify by style who played what. We don't know which Arkestran was assigned any specific stringed instrument. We don't know who played with a bow, who plucked, strummed, scraped, or hammered.
Sun Ra: piano strings, lightning drum, tympani, bandura, Clavioline (5), Clavinet (6), electric piano (7), Wurlitzer (7)
Marshall Allen: oboe (1), alto saxophone (1), piccolo (1), strings
John Gilmore: tenor saxophone (1), strings
Danny Davis: flute (1), alto saxophone (1), strings
Pat Patrick: flute (1), baritone saxophone(1), strings
Robert Cummings: bass clarinet (1), strings
Ali Hassan: trombone (1), strings
Carl Nimrod: strings, percussion
Ronnie Boykins: bass (1), viola (1), dutar
Clifford Jarvis: drums (1), tympani (Timpani) (1), percussion
James Jacson: log drums, strings
Art Jenkins ("Thlan Aldridge"): space voice, strings |
