Description
The Night of the Purple Moon, recorded and released in 1970, has a vague flavor of psychedelia. Credit the presence of an electronic keyboard popular with late-1960s shaggy-haired acid-rock bands: the Rock-Si-Chord. It served as a louder stand-in for the ancient harpsichord, which couldn't compete against high-decibel electric guitars. On Purple Moon there's a sense that after a decade of experimentalism and genre-bending jazz-not-jazz, Sun Ra sought to produce an accessible pop album. The Arkestra here is minimal, with only three sidemen: saxophonist John Gilmore (oddly, mostly playing drums), bassist Stafford James (his sole recording with Ra), and Danny Davis (reeds and percussion).Six bonus tracks are on this expanded edition, including "Stargazers Theme-Another Tomorrow" from a 1971 European TV concert, which presents Ra playing Rock-Si-Chord and Moog onstage; and a work with the assigned title "July 4, 1973, " the date Ra played Rock-Si live at Flushing Meadow Park, Queens, New York, in a quartet setting (which includes drummer Beaver Harris in his only known appearance with Ra).
Tracklist:
- Sun-Earth Rock
- The All of Everything
- Impromptu Festival
- Blue Soul
- Narrative (Takes 1 ; 2)
- Outside the Time Zone
- Night of the Purple Moon (Take 2)
- A Bird's Eye View of Man's World
- 21st Century Romance
- Dance of the Living Image
- Love in Outer Space (Take 1)
- Night of the Purple Moon (Take 1, Alternate)
- Stargazers Theme - Another Tomorrow (Live)
- Love in Outer Space (Single Version)
- Dance of the Living Image (Rehearsal)
- July 4, 1973 (Live)
- Love in Outer Space (Vocal Version)
UPC: 881626819326
Label: Cosmic Myth Records
Release Date: 12.11.26
Format: CD
