1967 studio album by Sun Ra and his Myth Science Arkestra
We Travel the Space Ways
Studio album by
Sun Ra and his Myth Science Arkestra
Released
1967 [1]
Recorded
1956 - 1961 Chicago [2]
Genre
Jazz
Length
23.45
Label
Saturn Evidence
Producer
Alton Abraham
Sun Ra and his Myth Science Arkestra chronology
Angels and Demons at Play (1956)
We Travel the Space Ways (1967)
The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra (1961)
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Allmusic (LP)
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Allmusic (CD)
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Rolling Stone (CD)
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We Travel the Space Ways is an album by the American jazz musician Sun Ra and his Myth Science Arkestra. Recorded mostly in 1960, the album was released in 1967, on Sun Ra's own label Saturn. The album brings together a number of eras and personnel of the Arkestra, and was probably mostly recorded by Ra himself during rehearsals.[6]
The earliest recording, New Horizons, was recorded at Balkan Studio, Chicago, April 13, 1956, and predates the version on Jazz by Sun Ra.[1]Velvet was recorded at the end of the session at RCA Studios, Chicago, around June 17, 1960, that yielded over 30 recordings spread across 5 albums (Fate In A Pleasant Mood, Holiday for Soul Dance, Angels and Demons at Play, We Travel the Space Ways & Interstellar Low Ways). Eve and Space Loneliness were recorded at the Pershing Lounge, Chicago, July 13, 1961.[1] The rest were recorded at various rehearsals in 1960.[1] The mechanical sound at the end of the title track comes from a toy robot:
"The bizarre whirring and quacking heard at the end of “We Travel the Spaceways” comes from a toy robot with flashing lights; John Gilmore told John Corbett that around this time the Arkestra would release the “robots” into the audience during their performances. The band also used mechanical “flying saucers” as props".[1]
When the album was re-issued on CD by Evidence, it was coupled with the whole of the 1961 album Bad & Beautiful, Ra's first recording for Saturn after arriving in New York.
^ abcdeFrom Sonny Blount to Sun Ra: The Chicago Years, R Campbell retrieved 16-6-09
^Robert L. Campbell's Sun Ra Discography
^Allmusic (LP) review
^Allmusic (CD) review
^Swenson, John, ed. (1999). The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide. Random House. p. 635.
^From Sonny Blount to Sun Ra, Campbell, retrieved 25-07-09
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