Our life has no end in just the way in which our visual field has no limits.
have blog :: will travel
Recorded Oct. 21, 2008 at the newly re-furbished Palais Royale Ballroom in Toronto. See the Sun Ra Archive for the personel and Live Music Report Review; alas my own review appears to have slipped through the timestream and just as sadly the CBC has removed all trace of the concert from their sounds archive (the audio was broadcast Jan 11 and Feb 24, 2009 on The Signal; I'm sure there are bittorrents around). There is also a thoughtful review in the Montreal Gazette to relate the presentation to Hymn OF the Universe by the visionary archaeologist and darwinian jesuit, Teilhard de Chardin.
"I don't consider myself one of the humans," he once said. "I'm a spiritual being," -- their "joyful noise" is free, sometimes chaotic, but also clearly blues-based, somewhat reminiscent of Monk or Mingus (there's even a rendition of "'Round Midnight"). Ra is also interviewed surrounded by the Egyptian artifacts and antiquities that were an important element of his "mythocracy." He clearly loves having an audience-and how can you not enjoy listening to a guy who also chooses the White House as a backdrop for solemn pronouncements like "I'm not a part of history-I'm more a part of mystery, which is my story"?
Our life has no end in just the way in which our visual field has no limits.
Our life has no end in just the way in which our visual field has no limits.
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