SUN RA Astro Black LP IMPULSE Quadraphonic Free Jazz Promo Space-Age
  $   39

 


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Description

Label:

Impulse! – AS-9255, ABC Records – AS-9255, Saturn Research – AS-9255

Format:

Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Quadraphonic

Country:

US

Released:

1973

Genre:

Jazz

Style:

Free Jazz, Space-Age A1 Astro Black 10:59 A2 Discipline "99" 4:47 A3 Hidden Spheres 7:04 The Cosmo-Fire Ba Part 1 6:59 Bb Part 2 7:04 Bc Part 3 4:25
  • Phonographic Copyright ℗ – ABC Records, Inc.
  • Copyright © – ABC Records, Inc.
  • Published By – Enterplanetary Koncepts
  • Recorded At – El Saturn Studio
  • Mixed At – Westlake Audio
  • Pressed By – Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Terre Haute
  • Alto Saxophone – Danny Davis, Marshall Allen
  • Arranged By, Composed By, Keyboards [Electronic], Synthesizer [Moog], Vibraphone [Electro] – Sun Ra
  • Baritone Saxophone – Danny Thompson*
  • Bass – Ronnie Boykins
  • Bass Clarinet – Eloe Omoe
  • Clarinet [Mistro] – Pat Patrick
  • Congas – Atakatun*, Chiea, Odun
  • Design – Tim Bryant (2)
  • Illustration – Ed Scarisbrick
  • Mixed By – Baker Bigsby
  • Percussion – Tommy Hunter
  • Photography By – Francis Ing
  • Producer – Alton Abraham, Ed Michel
  • Tenor Saxophone, Percussion – John Gilmore
  • Trombone – Charles Stephens
  • Trumpet – Akh Tal Ebah, Lamont McClamb
  • Violin, Viola – Alzo Wright
  • Vocals [Word-melody] – June Tyson
  • Voice [Space Ethnic] – Ruth Wright
Comes in gatefold sleeve.
Some copies come with pale orange factory (ABC Dunhill) inner sleeve.

Recorded at El Saturn Studio, Chicago, Illinois, May 7, 1972.
Mixed at Westlake Audio, Los Angeles, California.

℗1973, ABC Records, Inc. / ABC Records, Inc. © 1973

Sleeve features seven poems taken from the book titled "The Immeasurable Equation" by Sun Ra.

Unlike other Sun Ra releases on Impulse the promotional copies of "Astro Black" don`t have different (white) labels.

Stereo/Quad compatible recording.
  • Rights Society: BMI
  • Matrix / Runout (A-side label): AS-9255-A
  • Matrix / Runout (B-side label): AS-9255-B
  • Matrix / Runout (A-side runout etching, variant 1): IT AS-9255 A 3 B
  • Matrix / Runout (B-side runout etching, variant 1): TI AS-9255 B 3 B6
  • Matrix / Runout (A-side runout etching, variant 2): T1 AS-9255-A ② #
  • Matrix / Runout (B-side runout etching, variant 2): T1 AS09255-B ①
  • Matrix / Runout (A-side runout etching, variant 3): 1T AS-9255 A 3 D1
  • Matrix / Runout (B-side runout etching, variant 3): T1 AS-9255 B ①
  • Matrix / Runout (A-side, hand-etched, variant 4): IT AS - 9255 A ③ ( )
  • Matrix / Runout (B-side, hand-etched, variant 4): TI AS - 9255 B ③ Λ


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