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Released
  
1970

Nothing Is (1966)
  
Strange Strings (1966)

Label
  
ESP-Disk

Recorded
  
May 1966

Release date
  
1970

Genre
  
Jazz

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Length
  
39:42 (original release)

Artists
  
Sun Ra, The Sun Ra Arkestra

Similar
  
The Heliocentric Worlds of, Secrets of the Sun, Sound of Joy, Super‑Sonic Jazz, The Magic City

Nothing Is is a live album by American composer, bandleader and keyboardist Sun Ra recorded in 1966 and released on the ESP-Disk label in 1970. In 2010 ESP-Disk released an expanded 2CD edition, restoring the full concert on disc one and adding part of the second set and some tracks from the sound check on disc two.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by Lindsay Planer awarded the album 4½ stars and stated "Sun Ra and his Arkestra issued only a handful of titles on the groundbreaking indie ESP-Disk label. Each title respectively contains some of their most expressive musical statements to date".

Track listing

All compositions by Sun Ra

12" Vinyl

Side A:

  1. "Dancing Shadows" - 9:50
  2. "Imagination" - 1:53
  3. "Exotic Forest" - 9:50

Side B:

  1. "Sun Ra and His Band from Outer Space" - 1:58
  2. "Shadow World" - 13:48
  3. "Theme of the Stargazers" - 0:40
  4. "Outer Spaceways Incorporated" - 1:42
  5. "Next Stop Mars" - 0:38
  • Track lengths on cover differ significantly from actual playing times given above.
  • This version is also available on CD (without the bonus tracks below) as ZYX-Music / ESP 1045-2.

    • CD Bonus Tracks

    1. "Velvet" - 7:20
    2. "Outer Nothingness" - 15:43
    3. "We Travel the Spaceways" - 1:30
  • Recorded live on tour of New York state colleges in March 1966.

    • 2CD Deluxe Edition

    "Disc One" (66/5/18 - first set)

    1. "Sun Ra And HIs Band From Outer Space" - 14:02
    2. "The Shadow World" - 4:40
    3. "Interpolation" - 2:18
    4. "The Satellites Are Spinning" - 1:17
    5. "Advice To Medics" - 2:50
    6. "Velvet" - 8:16
    7. "Space Aura" - 10:26
    8. "The Exotic Forest" - 9:43
    9. "Theme Of The Stargazers" - 1:52
    10. "Outer Spaceways Incorporated" - 2:24
    11. "Dancing Shadows" - 9:45
    12. "Imagination" - 0:40
    13. "The Second Stop Is Jupiter" - 1:12
    14. "Next Stop Mars" - 0:41

    "Disc Two" (66/5/18 - partial second set and sound check)

    1. "The Satellites Are Spinning" - 9:08
    2. "Velvet" - 7:10
    3. "Interplanetary Chaos" - 4:35
    4. "Theme Of The Stargazers: - 1:30
    5. "The Second Stop Is Jupiter" - 11:16
    6. "We Travel The Spaceways" - 1:42
    7. "Nothing Is" - 6:13
    8. "It Is Eternal" _- 12:37
    9. "State Street" - 8:21
    10. The Exotic Forest" - 4:32

    Personnel

  • Sun Ra - piano, clavioline
  • Ali Hassan, Teddy Nance - trombone
  • Marshall Allen - alto saxophone, flute, piccolo, oboe
  • John Gilmore - tenor saxophone
  • Pat Patrick - baritone saxophone, flute
  • Robert Cummings - bass clarinet
  • James Jacson - flute, log drums
  • Ronnie Boykins - bass, tuba
  • Clifford Jarvis, Roger Blank, Jimmy Johnson - drum
  • Carl S. Malone, Nimrod Hunt - sun horn, gong

    • Songs

    1Dancing Shadows9:48
    2Imagination1:52
    3Exotic Forest9:47

    References

    Nothing Is Wikipedia
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