Lanquidity

Lanquidity
Studio album by Sun Ra
Released 1978
Recorded July 17, 1978
Studio Blank Tapes Studios, New York City
Genre Jazz fusion
Length 43:29
Label Philly Jazz
Producer Sun Ra
Sun Ra chronology
Visions
(1978)
Lanquidity
(1978)
Sound Mirror
(1978)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
All About Jazzfavorable[1]
Allmusic[2]
Alternative Press[3]
Jazz Timesfavorable[3]
Spinfavorable[3]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[4]

Lanquidity is a studio album by American jazz musician Sun Ra. It was released in 1978 by Philly Jazz (with a shiny silver cover) and reissued on HDCD by Evidence Records in 2000 (with a light grey cover).

Music

It is quite different from his earlier recordings, drawing heavily on funk, R&B and jazz fusion. Lanquidity is also unusual in featuring two guitarists, which were seldom used in the Arkestra.[1] The funk influence is also considerable, especially on "That's How I Feel". That track also contains a prominent tenor sax solo by John Gilmore, Sun Ra's sideman from the 1950s until Sun Ra's death in 1993.

"Where Pathways Meet", "That's How I Feel", and "Twin Stars of Thence" are played in a jazz fusion style.[2]

Critical reception

Spin magazine called Lanquidity "a beautiful place to enter Ra's psych-jazz omniverse", while Alternative Press wrote that it is "impossibly funky": "Often compared to Miles Davis' heaviest jazz-rock-funk fusion, Lanquidity is dense, rhythmic and curiously hypnotic".[3] Music journalist Robert Christgau is a fan of the album.[5]

Track listing

  1. "Lanquidity" – 8:19
  2. "Where Pathways Meet" – 6:30
  3. "That's How I Feel" – 8:09
  4. "Twin Stars of Thence" – 9:30
  5. "There Are Other Worlds (They Have Not Told You Of)" – 10:58

Personnel

References

  1. 1 2 Wuethrich, Matthew (12 January 2003). "Sun Ra: Lanquidity (1978)". Retrieved 13 September 2013.
  2. 1 2 Ruhlmann, William. Lanquidity at AllMusic
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Sun Ra - Lanquidity CD Album". CD Universe. Muze. Retrieved 2012-07-14.
  4. Swenson, J. (Editor) (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 186. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  5. Christgau, Robert (February 6, 2001). "Pazz & Jop Preview". The Village Voice (New York: Village Voice Media). p. 2. Retrieved 2012-07-14.

External links

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