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Released
  
1988

Cosmo Omnibus Imagiable Illusion (1988)
  
Somewhere Else (1989)

Release date
  
1988

Genre
  
Free jazz

Length
  
58:22

Artist
  
Sun Ra

Label
  
DIW Records

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Recorded
  
August 8, 1988 Pit-Inn, Shinjuku, Tokyo

Producer
  
Kohei Kawakami & Zen Matsuura

Similar
  
Free jazz albums, Other albums

Cosmo Omnibus Imagiable Illusion (subtitled Live At Pit-Inn, Tokyo, Japan, 8, 8, 1988) is a live album by jazz composer, bandleader and keyboardist Sun Ra and his Arkestra recorded in Tokyo in 1988 and released on the Japanese DIW label.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by Jesse Jarnow awarded the album 3 stars stating "The recording captures the band sympathetically, managing to keep the chaos under control through a crisp and deep mix... a good introduction to Sun Ra's work".

Track listing

All compositions by Sun Ra except as indicated

  1. " Introduction/Cosmo Approach Prelude" - 7:29
  2. "Angel Race/I Wait for You" - 7:18
  3. "Can You Take It?" - 3:14
  4. "If You Came from Nowhere Here" - 10:27
  5. "Astro Black" - 11:23
  6. "Prelude to a Kiss" (Duke Ellington, Irving Gordon) - 5:11
  7. "Why Was I Born?" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) - 5:57
  8. "Insterstellar Lo-Ways" - 7:23

Personnel

  • Sun Ra - piano, synthesizer, vocals
  • Michael Ray - trumpet, vocals on "Why Was I Born?"
  • Ahmed Abdullah - trumpet
  • Tyrone Hill - trombone
  • Marshall Allen - alto saxophone
  • John Gilmore - tenor saxophone, timbales
  • Danny Ray Thompson - baritone saxophone
  • Eloe Omoe - bass clarinet, alto saxophone, contra-alto clarinet
  • June Tyson - violin, vocals on "Astro Black"
  • Bruce Edwards - electric guitar
  • Rollo Radford - electric bass
  • Eric Walker, Earl "Buster" Smith - drums
  • References

    Cosmo Omnibus Imagiable Illusion Wikipedia