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LUCID DREAMER

ears 3 170 bpm take 1 8725

Lil Quanzy - Bummervile (FAST)

Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery

Summon The Fire

Unity

The Afterlife

All That Matters Is The Moments (feat. Joshua Idehen)

SUN RA OMNIVERSE ARKESTRA

Old Waldorf, San Fransisco
April 4th, 1981
1981-04-04 Disk 2

second set only
FM (following night on KZSC-FM santa cruz) > ? > cdr in trade > EAC > FLAC
2h 29min 06s

disc two:
01. unidentified Blues
02. Cocktails For Two [Coslow-Johnston]
03. unidentified swing tune
04. Blue Lou [Sampson]
05. Springtime Again [RA] - ens voc
06. Spontaneous Simplicity [RA]
07. Lady Bird / Half Nelson [Dameron] / [M.Davis]
08. unidentified title
09. Discipline ? [RA]
10. Halloween In Harlem [RA] (?)
11. Space Is The Place [RA] - ens voc
12. We Travel The Spaceways>
    Greetings From The 21st Century>
    I'll Wait For You-Angel Race>
    This World Is Not My Home>
    Swing Low Space Chariot>
    Motherless Child>
    Stranger In Paradise>
    Hit That Jive Jack>
    Gone WIth The Wind


the Arkestra:
Sun Ra - p, syn, voc
Michael Ray - tp,voc
Craig harris - tb
Marshall Allen - as, fl, ob, EVI, kora; 
Danny Davis - as
John Gilmore - ts, cl, timbales
Eloe Omoe - as,bcl, cacl, perc, voc 
Danny Ray Thompson-bs, fl, perc 
Kenny Williams - bars
James Jacson-bsn, fl, Ancient Egyptian Infinity Drum, voc 
Damon Choice - vib
Richard "Radu" Williams - b 
Eric "Samurai Celestial" Walker - d
Craig haynes - d
Atakatune - cga
June Tyson - voc 

2-05 Springtime Again

The Comet Is Coming has possessed an air of inevitability almost from the word “Go”! Much like the trail-blazing name they originally lifted from a BBC Radio Workshop record, the trio has participated in a kind of Big Bang. Its immediately relentless sound demands a sense of being present in the moment yet lost within it, much like how visceral punk rock, interstellar jazz blasts, deepest dance-floor trances and real-time technological breakthroughs do. Octavia Butler once wrote that, “There is nothing newunder the sun, but there are new suns.” And on their third album, Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam, synthesist/studio-magician Danalogue, drummer-producer/intuitionist Betamax, and saxophonist/spiritual riffologist Shabaka bring her verses to life. They burn brightly, directly and confidently, soundtracking our epoch of change in ways their contemporaries simply aren’t trying to. Like great artists throughout the recorded century, they possess, in Shabaka’s words, “a sensitivity to the zeitgeist,” channeling their sound into both a mirror to our times and a potential healing process for it. If that seems like asking a lot, The Comet Is Coming is uniquely qualified. Because even by their own telling, that other-worldly power was almost instantaneous.

On Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam, they turn it back onto the listener. Wish us all luck!

All That Matters Is The Moments (feat. Joshua Idehen)

The Comet Is Coming

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