Atlantis (Sun Ra album)

Infobox album |
Name = Atlantis
Type =Album
Artist = Sun Ra


Background = orange
Released = 1967
Recorded =
Genre = Jazz
Length = 46:13
Label = Saturn
Impulse! Records (LP reissue, as shown)
Evidence Records (CD reissue)
Producer = Alton Abraham
Reviews = *"Allmusic" Rating|5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:kxfwxqugldke~T1 link]

Last album ="Monorails and Satellites"
(1966)
This album = "Atlantis"
(1967)
Next album ="Outer Spaceways Incorporated"
(1968)

"Atlantis" is an album by Jazz musician Sun Ra and his Astro-Infinity Arkestra released in 1967.

The album heavily features the "Solar Sound Instrument" - a Hohner Clavinet. One of the 4 compositions which originally featured on Side 1 of the original release was substituted by a different piece for the 1973 reissue, though reusing the same name, "Yucatan". Both pieces appear on the later CD reissue.

The title track covered the second side of the LP and is regarded as a key prototype for Sun Ra's performances through the 1970s. [cite book | author=Litweiler, John| title=The Freedom Principle: Jazz After 1958 | publisher=Da Capo | year=1984|id=ISBN 0-306-80377-1|pages=147] It was recorded at a 1967 concert at the Olatunji Center of African Culture in New York [cite book | author=Szwed, John F| title=Space is the Place | publisher=Payback Press | year=1997|id=ISBN 0-86241-722-8|pages=248] and has been described as "a masterpiece that twists and turns through many soundscapes". [cite web|author=McLaren, Trevor |publisher=All About Jazz|title =Sun Ra: Atlantis| url =http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=580 | date = 2003-10-03| accessdate = 2008-03-24 ]

Track listing

#"Mu" – 4:30
#"Lemuria" – 5:02
#"Yucatan" (El Saturn Records Version) – 5:27
#"Yucatan" (Impulse Version) – 3:38
#"Bimini" – 5:45
#"Atlantis" – 21:51

Production

Produced by: Ihnfinity Inc. and Alton Abraham

Musicians:
Sun Ra - Solar Sound Organ, Solar Sound Instrument
John Gilmore- Tenor Saxophone, Percussion
Pat Patrick- Baritone Saxophone, Flute
Marshall Allen- Alto Saxophone, Oboe
Danny Thompson - Alto Saxophone, Flute
Bob Barry - Drums, Lightning Drum
Wayne Harris - Trumpet
Ebah - Trumpet
Carl Nimrod - Space Drums
James Jacson - Log Drums
Robert Cummins - Bass Clarinet
Danny Davis - Alto Saxophone
Ali Harsan - Trombone

Liner Notes

"The Dead Past"
The civilizations of the past have been used as the foundation of the civilization of today. Because of this, the world keeps looking toward the past for guidance. Too many people are following the past. In this new space age, this is dangerous. The past is DEAD and those, who are following the past are doomed to die and be like the past. It is no accident that those who die are said to have passed since those who have PASSED are PAST.

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