Outer Space Employment Agency [Live]

Sun Ra | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 30, 1999)
• Original Release Date: March 9, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Label: Total Energy
• ASIN: B00000I7WI
• Also Available in: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #345,947 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Discipline "99"

2. Love in Outer Space

3. Watusa/Disciplline 27-11

4. At First There Was Nothing/The Universe Has More to Offer You/Wake ...

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Space is the Place..., December 22, 2005

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young-man-afraid-of-thunder (chicago) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Outer Space Employment Agency (Audio CD)

Not for every listener, this live recording from the Ann Arbor Jazz and Blues Festival of 1973 preserves the unique dimensions of Sun Ra and Arkestra's theater and sound. The sound quality will disappoint many but diverting focus to the content and message of the performance may allow for an enhanced appreciation for the "otherworldliness" and secular gospel aspects of this recording. Probably not a good introduction to Sun Ra but it is an amazing, creative and philosophical document of Arkestra's jazz theater.

5.0 out of 5 stars Performing Live is the Place, August 25, 2008

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This review is from: Outer Space Employment Agency (Audio CD)

Recorded at the Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz Festival on September 9, 1973, the CD is part of an ongoing series of rough tape mixes from a variety of sources that are being officially released.

Sun Ra sparkles on the Farfisa organ and Minimoog on Discipline 99 and Love in Outer Space. The Intergalactic Arkestra stretches out on a series of five selections - starting with, At First There Was Nothing - with a groove that swings and the bolstered by the wonderful lyrical interpretations from vocalist June Tyson.

Live is where Sun Ra employed new dimensions to his intriguing explorations into sound and the 52:11 on this CD again shows why the concert experience was so special for the band members and fans.

1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars noisy, ragged, grating..., December 15, 2001

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Benissimo "benissimo" (Rome, Italy) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Outer Space Employment Agency (Audio CD)

Listening to the version of Watusi here just made me appreciate more the studio version on Angels & Demons At Play. OSEA is noisy, too much outside free for alls... ok, maybe there is a lot of discipline and technique involved, fine, so simply calling it noise would not be fair, but the effect, regardless, is that it sounds like a bunch of noise. And the recording quality on this album is quite spotty.

Well, this is my initial impression, maybe the album will grow on me. But I have a number of other Sun Ra albums, all of which I'd rank much higher than this one. Get this one only if you're such a Sun Ra completist and you already have all his other stuff. Otherwise, I recommend skipping it...