Greatest Hits: Easy Listening for Intergalactic Travel

by Sun Ra and His Arkestra

Greatest Hits: Easy Listening for Intergalactic Travel cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 1 January 2000
  • Label: Evidence
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:17:06
  • Community rating: 4/5 from 1 rating

Artists on this release: Roger Seibel, Ira Gershwin, Cootie Williams, Tommy Hunter, Bernie Hanighen, Jerry Gordon, Thelonious Monk, Hobart Dotson, Ihnfinity Inc., DuBose Heyward, Alton Abraham

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Evidence's single-disc survey of Sun Ra's Saturn recordings, subtitled 'Easy Listening for Intergalactic Travel'. It samples the Arkestra's space chants, big band arrangements and free improvisation in an accessible sequence.

Genres

Descriptors: compilation, experimental, space, improvisation, ensemble

Tracklist

  1. Saturn (3:00)
  2. Kingdom Of Not (5:32)
  3. Medicine For A Nightmare (2:16)
  4. Enlightenment (5:02)
  5. 'Round Midnight (4:00)
  6. Velvet (4:36)
  7. Rocket Number Nine Take Off For The Planet Venus (6:11)
  8. I Loves You, Porgy (3:30)
  9. We Travel The Spaceways (3:20)
  10. When Angels Speak Of Love (4:32)
  11. Thither And Yon (4:03)
  12. Pleasure (3:10)
  13. The Alter Destiny (3:04)
  14. Yucatan (3:38)
  15. Otherness Blue (4:46)
  16. We'll Wait For You (4:11)
  17. The Order Of The Pharaonic Jesters (7:21)
  18. The Perfect Man (4:54)

Credits

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