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Atlantis
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0730182206722
Label: Evidence
Manufacturer: Evidence
MPN: 22067
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Evidence
Release Date: November 25, 1993
Studio: Evidence
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Editorial Review:
One of the key but underappreciated episodes in avant-garde jazz, Sun Ra's Atlantis sounds far out even today. Rather than a full-on assault on the senses, Atlantis is an exercise in build-up, with long, almost forlorn passages of Ra on electric keyboards setting a vast echo chamber for his Arkestra to spring forth within. Captured during one of the most adventurous periods for Sun Ra, *Atlantis* features the orchestral perfection of the best big bands of the century-and then proceeds towards mutirhythmic explosions of intensity, all of it couched in Sun Ra's mixture of interglactic mysticism and heaping doses of experiments in tone, tempo, and texture. --Andrew Bartlett
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Music Or Noise?
Depends on your taste of course. What is music to one may be noise to another. To me this is noise - an atonal, arhythmic sonic mess for the most part. Here and there you get glimpses of melody, but it limps alongside murky, inarticulate accompanient, and goes nowhere in the end. The whole sound is so murky and ill-defined that it's hard to tell who plays what, and what song they are on. This will probably appeal to fans of Cecil Taylor and Ornette Coleman.
Rating:  - Simple and beautiful
If you love Sun Ra you don't need to know what it sounds like. This is a much stripped down recording, really emphasizing Ra's electronic keys, and a lot of percussion. It goes by fast, topped by the over 20 minute nominal behemoth solo.
This disk is a nice companion to Night of the Purple Moon and I'd have loved it if the guys had stretched "Mu" out a bit longer. It's quite quirky and addictive.
I'm much more into the late sixties early 70s electric experimental Ra, so take ... Read More
Rating:  - I hate to say this but....
...I think alot of people give this album too much credit. Sometimes you cannot heap lavish praise upon something simply because it is different, and breaks the mold of preconcieved notions formerly held of any particular genre. At this, Sun Ra excells brilliantly, rewriting what could be recorded for a jazz label at an early historical date like no one who has come before or since. That however does not merit placing this album up on a pedestal, for we must detatch the significance the album played ... Read More
Rating: - One of Sun Ra's finest albums
You think Pink Floyd is trippy and out there? Roger Waters and David Gilmour bow down to the great Sun Ra. That being said, Pink Floyd fans and stoners (often times one category) will love Sun Ra. In an age where Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane were criticized for straying way too far away from Jazz's orgins, Sun Ra was already leaps and bounds ahead of them. Sun Ra is the apex of Avant-Garde and Experimental Jazz. To the untrained ear of those unfamiliar with Ra, this may sound uneven and sloppily ... Read More
Rating:  - Overated but good
Certainly there is some very good music on this album, but I've always thought this album was overated. The shorter pieces suffer from a lack of cohesiveness and ramble on a bit in a laid back, offhand way. They don't really go anywhere. The long centerpiece composition "Atlantis" is for the most part an organ workout for Ra and is by turns extremely aggressive, spacey and ultimately exhausting. There are some great passages but its just too long. I would recommend "The Heliocentric ... Read More
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