It's After the End of the World

It's After the End of the World
Live album by
Sun Ra and His Intergalactic Research Arkestra
Released1970
Recorded17 October and 7 November 1970
Donaueschingen Music Festival and Berlin Jazz Festival
GenreJazz
Length49:22
LabelMPS
MPS 15289
ProducerJoachim E. Berendt
Sun Ra chronology
Nuits de la Fondation Maeght
(1970)
It's After the End of the World
(1970)
Black Myth/Out in Space
(1970)

It's After the End of the World (subtitled Live at the Donaueschingen and Berlin Festivals) is a live album by American composer, bandleader and keyboardist Sun Ra recorded in 1970 in Donaueschingen and Berlin and released on the MPS label in 1970.[1][2] The complete concerts were released in 1998 as a 2-CD set entitled Black Myth/Out in Space.

Reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[4]

Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars.[3] All About Jazz observed "this gem ideally captures Sun Ra and His Intergalactic (Research) Arkestra at its most otherworldly self. ...such a recording as this offers the next best thing to but a sampling of what it must have been like to experience the path that Ra offered his listeners in a live concert, perhaps the most uninhibited platform for his musical message".[5]

Track listing

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All compositions by Sun Ra
  1. "Strange Dreams – Strange Worlds – Black Myth / It's After the End of the World" – 14:40
  2. "Black Forest Myth" – 9:15
  3. "Watusi, Egyptian March" – 2:48
  4. "Myth Versus Reality (The Myth-Science Approach) / Angelic Proclamation / Out in Space" – 18:22
  5. "Duos" – 4:42

Personnel

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References

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  1. ^ Sun Ra discography Archived 7 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine accessed 28 October 2015
  2. ^ MPS Music website Archived 16 July 2015 at the Wayback Machine accessed 28 October 2015
  3. ^ a b Allmusic listing accessed 28 October 2015
  4. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1361. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  5. ^ AAJ Staff All About Jazz Review, 25 April 2004