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Pathways to Unknown Worlds

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As many times as people try to quote and channel Sun Ra, nobody ever matches his particular brand of freedom. The Arkestra is in amazing shape here, drawing out a few long tracks (more on the new version) that sounds like the herald of a new time, or the funeral for an old one. Sun Ra’s organ blasts and Clifford Jarvis’s drumming are worth it alone, and a chunk of this feels like a dialogue between them, with John Gilmore’s tenor sax tearing up the middle occasionally. Lots of big beautiful space around the whole thing.

Sasha Frere-Jones

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