Sun Ra Crystal Spears 6/12/06 Still Life 7

Still Life 7

Many songs start the way a memoir might and all of them have the compassion

From the original liner notes: Africa has always been many things to many people

Enriched by a whole host of guest performances

Sun Ra Crystal Spears 6/12/06 Still Life 7Solar guided improvisations of unbridled cacophony! Recorded in 73 and rejected by tin eared major label execs in 75, Crystal Spears (or Crystal Clear as it appears on the tape box) subsumes a cathartic brawl between Minimoog and Yamaha combo organ, with percussionists providing tonal textures, and plaintive oboe colliding with roaring electronic keyboards over waves of rollicking marimba, devilishly chattering below the fray. Crystal Spears is Ras