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PRICE:
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ARTIST
SUN RA & HIS ASTRO INFINITY ARKESTRA
TITLE
Strange Strings (Expanded Edition)
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
COSMIC MYTH RECORDS
CATALOG #
CMR 008CD
CMR 008CD
GENRE
JAZZ
RELEASE DATE
8/23/2024
"Fans of
Sun Ra
's Space Bop and genre-bending jazz were in for a shock with
Strange Strings
. Even in the eclectic and sometimes baffling Sun Ra catalog,
Strange Strings
is an outlier. It's primitive, it's sophisticated, but it's not a gradient of either. It's brutal, yet highly sensitive. Is it music, or just noise? Or noise as music?
John Cage
could not be reached for comment. For this album, Sun Ra collected an arsenal of exotic string instruments and handed them out to his Arkestra on the precept that 'strings could touch people in a special way.' That the Arkestrans didn't know how to play or tune these instruments was not beside the point -- it was the point. Ra framed it 'a study in ignorance.' The result was primitive, yet sophisticated; brutal, yet highly sensitive. In his essay for this expanded edition of the 1967
Saturn
LP, musician-curator
David Toop
calls
Strange Strings
'saturated in mystery.' The original 1967
Saturn
LP version of
Strange Strings
was monophonic, contained three tracks, and suffered distortion in the mastering (perhaps due to the high-decibel studio performance and excessive reverb). Yet some sessions were captured in stereo. A dozen strange-string works have been located, five of which are included on this remastered edition. (The others have been released on other labels; see discography inside gatefold.) No track titles appeared on the original
Saturn
LP verso, but the three works issued were later identified as 'World's Approaching,' the LP title track, and an inversion of the title, 'Strings Strange.' A belatedly discovered tape box listed the third recording as 'Strange Strange,' a title which has been used in this edition."
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