The Wind Speaks: My Brother the Wind, Vol. II

by Sun Ra

The Wind Speaks: My Brother the Wind, Vol. II cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1971
  • Label: El Saturn
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 39:25
  • Community rating: 3.83/5 from 4 ratings

Artists on this release: Kwame Hadi, Akh Tal Ebah, Carl Nimrod, Robert Cummings, Lex Humphries, Danny Ray Thompson, Pat Patrick, Alex Blake, James Jacson, Marshall Allen, Danny Davis, William Brister, June Tyson

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Continuing his pioneering exploration of early synthesizers, this volume captures Sun Ra navigating a deeply spiritual and chaotic avant-garde landscape. The sessions feature extended Moog solos intertwined with the Arkestra's powerful, dissonant horn arrangements, furthering his Afro-futurist cosmic mythology.

Genres

Descriptors: atmospheric, lo-fi, improvisation, experimental, electronic, avant-garde, synthesizers

Tracklist

  1. Otherness Blue (4:47)
  2. Somebody Else's World - a.k.a. Somebody Else's Idea (4:01)
  3. Pleasant Twilight (3:36)
  4. Walking on the Moon (6:15)
  5. Somewhere Else (4:31)
  6. Contrast (2:54)
  7. The Wind Speaks (3:51)
  8. Sun Thoughts (2:35)
  9. Journey to the Stars (2:56)
  10. World of the Myth "I" (1:33)
  11. The Design - Cosmos II (2:22)

Credits

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