Sun Ra & His Astro Infinity Arkestra - Strange Strings (Expanded Edition) - LP

Expanded Edition LP

For this 1967 Saturn session, Sun Ra collected an arsenal of exotic string instruments and handed them out to his Arkestra on the precept that "strings could touch people in a special way" — even though the players didn't know how to tune or play them. The result is primitive yet sophisticated, brutal yet highly sensitive. This expanded edition gathers five strange-string works, several newly issued, with an essay by musician-curator David Toop.

Features

• Expanded edition of the 1967 Saturn LP
• Remastered, with previously unissued material
• Label: Modern Harmonic

Track Listing

1. World's Approaching (Stereo)
2. Strings Strange (Mono)
3. Strange Strange (Mono)
4. Crystal Spheres (Between Worlds) (Stereo)
5. Cosmos Miraculous (Mono)
6. Untitled St. Peter's (Stereo)
7. Moon Orbit (Mono)
8. Ra Explains the Bandura (Mono)