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Ra played grand piano and the idiosyncratic (and short-lived) electronic console, the Crumar Mainman. The unconventional four-man interplay from one January night in Milan's Teatro Ciak is preserved on DISCO 3000.Īccompanying Ra in Italy were mainstay tenor saxophonist John Gilmore trumpeter Michael Ray, a relative newcomer, who had first played with Ra only a few months prior and another recent recruit, drummer Luqman Ali (Edward Skinner), who had joined the Arkestra in early 1977. Writing in his 1998 Sun Ra bio, SPACE IS THE PLACE-before any of the above Saturn albums had been reissued in any format (original 1978 pressings probably numbered in the low hundreds)-John Szwed wrote, "Sonny took a quartet to Italy in early 1978 …, and despite his misgivings about small bands, they produced some concert and studio recordings which are some of the most interesting and little known of the Sun Ra output." These projects offer a unique-never before, never after-opportunity to hear Sun Ra's music performed live by a quartet, rather than solo or with some iteration of the legendary Arkestra. But his creative activity in a short span was prodigious: a piano recital recorded in Venice, in November 1977 two double-LP studio albums (OTHER VOICES/OTHER BLUES, and NEW STEPS), recorded for the Horo label, in January 1978 and two and a half live albums, recorded in early January, issued on his own Saturn imprint: DISCO 3000, MEDIA DREAMS, and side B of SOUND MIRROR. He may have made two trips, or one extended stay - accounts vary. Ra spent part of winter 1977-78 in Italy on a musical odyssey. By 1978 standards, the album was anything but Disco.
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If so, it's a shame we won’t be around to see if these grooves electrify partygoers. Referencing the term "Disco" was typical, willful, sardonic Ra "misdirection." The "3000" might be forecasting a future millennium when humans - or cyborgs - dance to this music.
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That same year his Saturn label issued DISCO 3000. LANQUIDITY was one of Ra's few nods to contemporary musical currents-and it remains one of his most revered projects. Ra was never a dedicated follower of fashion (music or otherwise), yet that year his landmark album LANQUIDITY would not have been unwelcome in a mirror ball-dappled club.
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In 1978, capital-D Disco was at its apex - the pop dance music du jour, the bottom-heavy successor to rock'n'roll and funk. However, it sits comfortably in the Sun Ra discography - because it's weird. Yet even by Ra's standards, DISCO 3000 is an outlier.
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