Sun Ra
Calling Planet Earth
Label:  Da Music 
Date:  4/21/1998
Length:  0:00
Format:  CD box set
Genre:  Jazz; Psychedelic
  Category:  rock
    Track Listing:
      1.  
      		 Somewhere There    
      2.  
      		 Outer Space Incorporated    
      3.  
      		 Intergalactic Motion    
      4.  
      		 Saturn    
      5.  
      		 Song of the Sparer    
      6.  
      		 Spontaneous Simplicity    
      7.  
      		 Prelude and Shadow-Light World    
      8.  
      		 Wind Speaks    
      9.  
      		 We Sing *This* Song    
      10.  
      		 We Travel the Spaceways    
      11.  
      		 Discipline No. 5    
      12.  
      		 Discipline No. 10    
      13.  
      		 Enlightenment    
      14.  
      		 Love in Outer Space    
      15.  
      		 Discipline No. 15    
      16.  
      		 Satellites Are Spinning    
      17.  
      		 Calling Planet Earth    
      18.  
      		 Outers    
      19.  
      		 Adventures Outer Space    
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      By now, Sun Ra's exceptional band is a well-documented musi-cultural phenomenon. Unfortunately, this wasn't always the case. Calling Planet Earth is a marvelous three-CD collection of Sun Ra that includes "Spaceways" (two concerts, recorded in 1966 and 1968), "Calling Planet Earth" (a live show from 1971), and "Outer Spaceways Incorporated" (a studio collection). On all three discs, Sun Ra's spacey, avant-garde jazz orchestrations are exhorted by a willing and musically fanatical big band. A traditional rhythm section, African percussion, June Tyson's expressive singing, and Ra's imaginative work on piano and keyboard electronics augment brass and reed sections. Featuring outrageous soloists like tenor giant John Gilmore, this retrospective is essential. --Mitch Myers