Lanquidity

"Amid the ongoing meteor storm of Sun Ra reissues, the current Arkestra's label of choice uncorks another beautifully packaged reissue coupling 1978's fusion landmark Lanquidity with its original Philly Jazz version sold at an Atlanta college gig ... Lanquidity displayed a (rarely) multi-tracked Arkestra led by Ra's Fender Rhodes starbursting over floatation horns (...) and spatial funk-inflected grooves. After "Where Pathways Meet" and others reinvent jazz-funk, vocals-enhanced processional "There Are Other Worlds (They Have Not Told You Of)" established a timewarp not of this planet. [Producer Bob] Blank's original earthier mix offers invaluable fresh perspective on this relatively accessible slip-road onto Ra's teeming spaceways".

"Sun Ra's biographer John F. Szwed labelled this the "revisionist disco album". Recorded over one night in New York in 1978, Lanquidity's five tracks were originally released in two slightly different masters ... Both versions are here, but as different facets of the same jewel rather than rivals for the crown. From the vertiginously open-ended title-track, through the dense funk undergrowth of "Where Pathways Meet", to the unabashedly confessional "That's How I Feel", then on via the celestial jazz-funk of "Twin Stars Of Thence" to the concluding alien susurrations of "There Are Other Worlds (They have Not Told You Of)", Lanquidity is a spookily addictive five act play on words, bottling Sun Ra's otherworldly allure in an intoxicatingly palatable suspension".