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and also Stephan Micus. In fact, if anyone knows of any band that is inspired by the Third Ear Band, feel free to mention it, as I'm taking notes :)

beautiful record, I was listening to it again just yesterday. I believe that many people have been inspired by them, Aktuala, Bruce Palmer, Jon Hassell, Trance Mission, Steve Roach, up to very different groups like Ghost.

It will make sense, but if I hear that deliberately silly and childish little song in the movie, it's chilling; on the album, it's simply silly and childish.

Yes, but I didn't mean to generalize. I could mention many Kubrick films, certain soundtracks by Bernard Hermann, Wyatt's score for Animals, but in many cases, especially when the score is tailored for the film, listening to that music on a record loses much of its impact. It's not even the musicians' fault, since they were working for the film, but it happens. Here, in my opinion, it happens. Of course, there are exceptions to be found, that's clear.

Well, to say something like school at night (the lalala song of the little girl) out of context from the movie makes no sense at all.

I don't know, Zion, for example, here I feel the difference between listening to this soundtrack while watching the film and listening to it on its own. On its own, I think it doesn't go anywhere because it's not designed to be an album. I don't want to say it's not quality music, but it's specifically made for the scenes, and it gains meaning in relation to them. When I think of "albums to devour," the ones you put on repeat when they finish, listen to countless times, and then come back to with pleasure after years, I hardly ever (with a few exceptions, usually not music specifically made for a film) think of soundtracks. I recently heard a very nice jazz piece by Umiliani (I think) on the beautiful "Il Sorpasso" by Risi, but even that one, I wouldn't know how to listen to it on its own...

let's get two hundred and fifty grams

beautiful as a soundtrack, as a record to listen to without images (for which, after all, it is designed) much less so. A bit of the problem with almost all soundtracks, with very few exceptions.

Everyone talks about them so wonderfully, and the review is really nice and makes me want to check them out even more. I've had them for quite a while and still haven't listened to them. I think, I think that in these days...

Beautiful review. Seriously determining what is best in Sun Ra's discography is an endeavor for a few crazy people (whom I envy greatly). For such a judgment, I believe one simply needs decades of listening, considering that, besides being "rather particular," the discography is literally titanic; I think it easily surpasses two hundred albums, often with different titles and repeated tracks. This is very nice, and I also enjoy "Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy" and the jazz in silhouette mentioned by pretazzo, which is much less extreme but features a nighttime and wonderful version of "ancient ethiopia" (which has very little free element in it). Atlantis is currently, for me, absolutely the record of a lifetime, but strangely not for the ultra-chaotic suite as much as for the elongated minor pieces Mu and Yucatan, which should be simple little games from Sun Ra with the new instrument, the Hohner Clavinet, which he obviously renames "Ra-solar sound instrument."