Released 1978 Length 43:29 | Recorded July 17, 1978 Lanquidity(1978) Sound Mirror(1978) Release date 1978 | |
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Studio Blank Tapes Studios, New York City Similar Sun Ra albums, Jazz albums | ||
Lanquidity is a studio album by American jazz musician Sun Ra. It was released in 1978 by Philly Jazz (with a shiny silver cover) and reissued on HDCD by Evidence Records in 2000 (with a light grey cover).
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Music
It is quite different from his earlier recordings, drawing heavily on funk, R&B and jazz fusion. Lanquidity is also unusual in featuring two guitarists, which were seldom used in the Arkestra. The funk influence is also considerable, especially on "That's How I Feel". That track also contains a prominent tenor sax solo by John Gilmore, Sun Ra's sideman from the 1950s until Sun Ra's death in 1993.
"Where Pathways Meet", "That's How I Feel", and "Twin Stars of Thence" are played in a jazz fusion style.
Critical reception
Spin magazine called Lanquidity "a beautiful place to enter Ra's psych-jazz omniverse", while Alternative Press wrote that it is "impossibly funky": "Often compared to Miles Davis' heaviest jazz-rock-funk fusion, Lanquidity is dense, rhythmic and curiously hypnotic". Music journalist Robert Christgau is a fan of the album.
Track listing
- "Lanquidity" – 8:19
- "Where Pathways Meet" – 6:30
- "That's How I Feel" – 8:09
- "Twin Stars of Thence" – 9:30
- "There Are Other Worlds (They Have Not Told You Of)" – 10:58
Personnel
Songs
1Lanquidity8:22
2Where Pathways Meet6:33
3That's How I Feel8:06