Lanquidity
Sun Ra
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AllMusic
20??
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Paul Simpson
20??
"As with much of Ra's later, Philadelphia-period work, this release incorporates earlier jazz and swing tunes as well as his own compositions, linking jazz's past with its present and future ... The entire set is thoroughly invigorating, simply a pure expression of joy and positive energy".
Dusted
d. 29. Apr. 2020
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Derek Taylor
d. 29. Apr. 2020
"Recorded in September of 1982, Celestial Love was one such homecoming. The album was also the last one released on Ra's own Saturn imprint and one of the final sessions at the New York studio that had served as a reliable Arkestra landing site for the previous two decades. Cosmic keyboard conflagrations and miasmic percussion orgies weren't the order of the day. Instead, Ra dusted off a songbook that could almost be construed as mainstream on paper, gathering a pair of Duke Ellington originals, a mothballed standard, and a handful of originals that hew to the theme-solos framework of his more terrestrially attuned contemporaries".
Record collector
523 (2021 October)
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Charles Waring
523 (2021 October)
"Overlooked gem from the father of Afrofuturism: Ra mostly plays electric keyboards and brings an otherworldly astral vibe to three standards, including Duke Ellington's "Sophisticated Lady". Cosmic, man".