LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

Recorded at Town Hall NYC in December 1973, this concert was one of the most outrageous of Sun Ra’s cosmic jazz sessions. Sun Ra playing synthesizer throughout while the group chant in astral worship - its nine pieces were dedicated to the passing of the Comet Kohoutek - which sounds as though Ra and Co. were signaling the comet to take them back to their alternate universe. No less, the concert takes the listener into the divine astral trajectory- far-out of the realms of jazz, psychedelia, cosmic electronics and astral funk. “We open up the doors of the outer space employment agency” heralds the mood of this album. The final cut is the quintessential Sun Ra myth theme tune “Space is the Place”. Concert for the Comet Kohoutek is one of the most wild and unhinged events in avant-garde music. In keeping with the tradition of ESP-Disk’. Also available on LP (GET 1011).