It's After the End of the World

It's After the End of the World (subtitled Live at the Donaueschingen and Berlin Festivals) is a live album by American composer, bandleader and keyboardist Sun Ra recorded in 1970 in Donaueschingen and Berlin and released on the MPS label in 1970.Sun Ra discography accessed 28 October 2015MPS Music website accessed 28 October 2015 The complete concerts were released in 1998 as a 2-CD set entitled Black Myth/Out in Space.

Reception

Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars.Allmusic listing accessed 28 October 2015 All About Jazz observed "this gem ideally captures Sun Ra and His Intergalactic (Research) Arkestra at its most otherworldly self. ...such a recording as this offers the next best thing to but a sampling of what it must have been like to experience the path that Ra offered his listeners in a live concert, perhaps the most uninhibited platform for his musical message".AAJ Staff All About Jazz Review, 25 April 2004

Track listing All compositions by Sun Ra "Strange Dreams – Strange Worlds – Black Myth / It's After the End of the World" – 14:40 "Black Forest Myth" – 9:15 "Watusi, Egyptian March" – 2:48 "Myth Versus Reality (The Myth-Science Approach) / Angelic Proclamation / Out in Space" – 18:22 "Duos" – 4:42

Personnel Sun Ra – Farfisa organ, Hohner clavinet, piano, Rocksichord, Spacemaster organ, Minimoog, Hohner electra, vocals Kwame Hadi – trumpet Akh Tal Ebah – mellophone, trumpet John Gilmore – tenor saxophone, percussion Marshall Allen – alto saxophone, flute, oboe, piccolo, percussion Pat Patrick – baritone saxophone, tenor saxophone, alto saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet, flute, drum Danny Davis – alto saxophone, flute, clarinet Abshalom Ben Shlomo – alto saxophone, flute, clarinet Danny Ray Thompson – baritone saxophone, alto saxophone, flute Leroy Taylor – oboe, bass clarinet Robert Cummings – bass clarinet Augustus Browning – Waldhorn Alan Silva – violin, viola, cello, bass Alejandro Blake Fearon – bass Lex Humphries – drums James Jackson – percussion, oboe, flute Nimrod Hunt – hand drums Hazoume – fireeater, dance, African percussion Math Samba, Ife Tayo – dance, percussion June Tyson – vocals Richard Wilkinson – stereo light-sound coordination

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