The Sun Ra Arkestra - Strange Strings (Expanded Edition)
1 World's Approaching (stereo) 10:08
2 Strange Strings (mono) 12:25
3 Strange Strings (stereo) 8:33
4 Crystal Spheres (Between Worlds) (stereo) 7:30
5 Cosmos Miraculous (mono) 11:10
6 Untitled St. Peter's (stereo) 8:32
7 Ra Explains the Bandura (mono) 6:10
Bass Clarinet – Robert Cummings (track 1)
Bass, Viola – Ronnie Boykins (track 1)
Clavinet – Sun Ra (track 6)
Composed By Sun Ra
Drums, Timpani – Clifford Jarvis (track 1)
Dutar – Ronnie Boykins
Flute, Alto Saxophone – Danny Davis (track 1)
Flute, Baritone Saxophone – Pat Patrick (track 1)
Oboe, Alto Saxophone, Piccolo Flute – Marshall Allen (track 1)
Percussion – Clifford Jarvis
Slit Drum [Log Drums], Strings – James Jacson
Strings – Ali Hassan, Danny Davis, John Gilmore, Marshall Allen, Pat Patrick, Robert Cummings
Strings, Percussion – Carl Nimrod
Strings, Timpani, Electric Piano, Drum [Lightning], Arranged By, Producer – Sun Ra
Synthesizer [Clavioline] – Sun Ra (track 5)
Tenor Saxophone – John Gilmore (track 1)
Trombone – Ali Hassan (track 1)
Voice [Space Voice], Strings – Thlan Aldridge
Originally released in 1967 as The Sun Ra Arkestra - Strange Strings.
Tracks 4, 6 and 7 previously unissued.
Track 5 from The Sun Ra Arkestra - Strange Strings (2014).
Tracks 4 to 7 are bonus selections.
1 recorded at Richard Alderson Studios, 1965
2, 3, 4, 5, 7 recorded at Sun Studio, New York, ca. mid-1965
6 recorded in concert at an unknown location ca. 1967-68.
8 recorded at Sun Studio, ca. 1968, during an interview with an unidentified visiting journalist
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 (1), percussion
James Jacson: log drums, strings
Art Jenkins ("Thlan Aldridge"): space voice, strings |
